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Comparing Cervantes and Dante in Terms of Social Criticisms

time Dante wrote his Inferno. He implies that all have sinned in one way or another by his use of the generic we, so that the read...

The Picture of Dorian Gray Characters' Approach to Art and Life

and how they interpret life and art. In focusing on this subject we incorporate two essays which discuss aspects of art and life f...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey and Minor Characters' Significance

this unusual technique sets up interesting prospects for the reader. The experience of Nurse Ratched, for example, gives one a sen...

Three Novels by Toni Morrison and Northern Characters' Ties to the South

In six pages this paper examines the ties to the South northern based characters have in The Bluest Eye, Jazz, and Beloved by Toni...

Theme of Revenge in Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, 'The Inferno' by Dante, Oedipus the King and Antigone by Sophocles, 'The Odyssey' by Homer

short temper gets him into trouble. In Book IX, Polyphemus, the son of the sea god Poseidon, decides to dine on a few Greeks who ...

The Bible, Koran, And Divine Comedy

the Bible - the Ten Commandments, the so-called Golden Rule, what civilized societies consider moral and immoral behaviors - all f...

The Christian Influence in Medieval Literature

made of its mortality" (Dante 539). For Dante, then, "the way to God is found in human life. This was Abelards message. It was the...

C.S. Lewis/The Great Divorce

pretensions that keep them in Hell, and stay in Heaven, that is, not to get back on the bus for the return trip. Lewis reveals l...

Spiritual Journeys East and West: A Consideration of "Cold Mountain Poems" and The Divine Comedy

Comparing and contrasting the search for enlightenment in the works of Dante Alighieri and Hanshan in 4 pages. Primary sources on...

St. Augustine and Dante: Partners in the Spiritual Journey

engine of aesthetic development throughout Western Europe for much of history. This can be seen in the patronage of artists by Chr...

The Divine Comedy, Man's Search for Understanding and Truth Represented by Dante

also called La Commedia (The Comedy) by Dante. In the poem, the poet Dante, travels to hell (Inferno) then purgatory (Purgatorio) ...

Ethical Perspectives on 'Purgatorio' by Dante Alighieri

This paper consists of 5 pages and discusses how human behavioral complexities are portrayed by Dante in this ethical analysis of ...

History of Literature and Changing Character Gender Roles

around the world. This is evidenced in the Pelasgian Creation. In the Pelasgian myth, Eurynome was the Goddess of All Things,...

Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri and Portrayal of Women

woman who is generous and selfless: "So much more dear and pleasing is to God/ My little widow, whom so much I loved,/ As in good ...

'Song of the Bower' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

prior to Rossettis marriage to Lizzie, however, the poem does not address Lizzie as its subject. Rather, in this poem, Rossetti is...

Physical World View of Dante

Aristotle. The sky is of course something that perhaps is significant in esoteric matters. After all, the sky is quite provocativ...

God's Directive, Temptation, Dante and the Bible

In five pages these themes are examined as they are represented in Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and in the Bible. Five sources...

Barbara Walters and a Theoretical TV Symposium on Women

In three pages this paper discusses a theoretical TV symposium regarded on the presentation of women in literature and thoughts on...

Faith of Dante Alighieri in Divine Comedy

In five pages this paper discuses how within the poetic narrative Dante reinforces the Christian faith attitudes and also embraces...

The Legend of Good Women, Dante Alighieri, and Geoffrey Chaucer

In eight pages correlation between The Legend of Good Women and the works of Dante and Chaucer is established through textual clue...

Literary Classics and Human Nature

In five pages this paper examines how human nature is featured in classic literary works by Homer, Sophocles, Dante Alighieri, and...

'Paradiso' of Dante

across other he knows as well ads many mythical and historical figures, each one can be seen representing a particular virtue or f...

Dante, Boccaccio, Sin, Gender, and Nature

Comedy reflects an effort to find a spiritual solution to that dilemma. Dante wrote this work -- or, in the language of the poem,...

Bernard Malamud's The Natural and Classical Allusions

In 5 pages this novel is examined in terms of the classical allusions of the Arthurian Grail cycle, Aristotle, Homer, and Dante it...

Classical Literature and the Portrayal of the 'Faustian Bargain'

In 5 pages this paper examines how the 'Faustian Bargain' is depicted in the literary works Faust by Goethe, Don Quixote by Cervan...

Audience and Works by Dante Alighieri and Homer

In five pages this essay considers the audience and poet relationship as represented in 'The Divine Comedy' by Dante and 'The Odys...

Epic of Gilgamesh, Inferno, and Human Values

the Inferno. "In Dantes Inferno, there is an Upper Hell and a Lower Hell. Upper Hell is the place for those guilty of excessive se...

Morality in 'The Inferno,' The Aeneid, and the Book of Matthew

In five pages this paper compares how morality is a common thematic threads in these classical literary works. Four sources are c...

Milton/Satan in Paradise Lost

who displays unconquerable courage. In this manner, Milton portrays Satan as a heroic figure, and elicits sympathy for him. As Sat...

Teaching Character Education

Jean Piaget and also on the philosophy of American educator John Dewey (Barger). This model of moral development pictures children...