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Journeys in Dante's 'Inferno' and Homer's 'Odyssey'

and his courage will constantly be tested. Without going into great detail, and there is a large amount of it in this classic, we ...

Dante's 9th Circle/A Contemporary Vision

household. As a teen, he became enthralled with Islam and converted. Lindh came to reject everything America stands for. By active...

Literary Self Determination in Women and Sexuality

-- but to deny their husbands sex until the men agree to sign a treaty. It is the women, therefore, who actually end the war. Rea...

Dante’s Inferno/Canto XX

because pity carries with it the connotation that divinely imposed punishment is less than just. He tells Dante to lift his eyes a...

Feminine Literary Ideal

her day and age, women were of two types, generally speaking: bad and good. The good were set upon pedestals and were seen as the ...

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...

Inferno of Dante and its Visual Imagery

In five pages this paper discusses the spiritual messages contained in the visual imagery of Dante Alighieri's 'Inferno.' There a...

'Inferno' of Dante and Hell's 5th and 6th Levels

Of course, the water is not pure. It is important to remember this is a hellish environment and reflects that aura. One might be i...

Walking the Line in Dante's 'Inferno'

In a paper consisting of 5 pages, the meaning of Dante Alighieri's 'Inferno' is discussed. There is 1 bibliographic source cited....

Dante's Purgatory Symbolism

In eight pages this paper focuses upon the Purgatorio section of The Divine Comedy in an analysis of Dante Alighieri's use of symb...

Comparative Analysis of the Characters in Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Dante's 'The Inferno'

a commonplace story already familiar to his listeners, he could (and did) omit much of the unnecessary backstory (with respect to ...

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...

Dante the Poet and Author in The Divine Comedy Part I

In five pages this paper discusses the author Dante Alighieri and his fictional alter ego Dante the poet in his epic in terms of t...

Women's Roles in 6 Great Works of Literature

In ten pages this paper examines how women's societal roles are represented in Plato's The Apology, Dante's 'The Inferno,' William...

Women's Role in Dante Alighieri's 'Inferno'

own father; she, who in life was so calculated in her incestuous sin, is condemned to run naked and "berserk in just the way a hog...

Quest Themes in Dante Alighieri's 'Inferno' and Homer's 'The Odyssey'

In five pages this paper examines how the quest theme is depicted in these works by Dante and Homer. Three sources are cited in t...

Gothic Cathedral and Dante

moderation. We can see this as he puts those people in the first stages of hell, which had been neutral -nothing good-nothing bad...

Dante Alighieri's Inferno and Medieval Cities

and Hollander 161). Dante comments to Virgil that the mosques inside the city can clearly be seen. The translators also comment th...

Dante Alighieri's Inferno Canto X

who retained power in Florence under Frederick II decided to expand their society, incorporating the merchant or middle class, kno...

Dante Alighieri's Inferno and Politics

meets many individuals that he actually admired. When they were in the third ring, a ring that was devoted to those who committed ...

Pain of Exile: King Lear, Inferno

This essay pertains to Shakespeare's King Lear and Dante's Inferno and the impact of exile on the protagonists. Four pages in leng...

Exercise in Dante's 'Inferno'

commit a sin where he would go to held under Dantes model, it seems that he might be found in Limbo. At the same time, the truth i...

Literature and the West's Medieval and Renaissance Cultures

Dantes (1999) Florentine origin, one first must ascertain the reasons why people are drawn to his work. Is it that poems are enjo...

Dante Alighier's Inferno Canto XXVI

speech. "These in the flame with ceaseless goals deplore/The ambush of the horse, that opend wide/A portal for the goodly seed to ...

Dante’s Inferno & Humanism

must take a stand against evil and live according to ideals rather than simply from a myopic focus on personal needs. In Canto 2...

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...

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) ...

William Shakespeare's King Lear and Dante's 'Inferno' Compared

leaves Cordelia dowerless. As luck or providence would have it, through a twist of fate, Cordelia became the queen of France. Go...

Animal Symbolism in Dante's 'Inferno' and William Shakespeare's King Lear

In 7 pages this paper examines what the animal symbolism represents in a comparative analysis of these two literary works. There ...

Aeneid vs. the Divine Comedy

The Aeneid of Virgil and Dante's The Divine Comedy are similar in style and format, both being produced by poets. This paper compa...