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Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, and Divine Incarnation

events of the faith, such as God coming to earth in the form of man only once. It was also created out of love. "Although the worl...

Hypostatic Union : Jesus As God And Man

a core belief of Christianity that one can find on any Christian Church Web site, regardless of whether that organization is a mai...

Excalibur, Beowulf, and the Concepts of the Chosen and Divine Kingship

protect and guard the warrior, but in this case, it represents the king protecting and guarding the nation against all intruders t...

Why Should Man Pray if God is Omnipotent?

In five pages this paper discusses the daily usefulness of prayer in an overview that includes such topics as divine planning and ...

Dante's Characterization in 'Inferno'

In six pages the reasons why Dante elected to utilize himself as protagonist in 'Divine Comedy' are analyzed in a consideration of...

Beatrice's Character in 'Inferno' by Dante

Divine Comedy is examined in six pages in terms of the tales 4 meaning levels, considers why Dante selected Beatrice as the primar...

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...

20th Century Hell in Dante's 'Inferno'

In five pages this paper speculates on how the Divine Comedy of Dante could be updated to reflect the various levels of hell such ...

Medieval Civilization and Christianity

In six pages Dante's 'Divine Comedy,' 'Beowulf,' 'Song of Roland,' and Augustine's 'Confessions' are examined in terms of gaining ...

Evil as a Theme in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Dante's Divine Comedy

A research paper addressing the portrayal of evil in Dante's Divine Comedy and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The author draws the c...

Chaucer's Alter-Ego in the House of Fame.

An observational essay dealing with the protagonist of Chaucer's House of Fame, Geffrey. The author asserts that the work is a pa...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri and Guides

In five pages this report examines the various guides throughout Dante's 'Divine Comedy' and how they force the readers to conside...

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...

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,...

Medieval Times and Attitudes About Women

the man is Ywain she is happy and tells him, "she ought not refuse to take as lord a good knight and the son of a king" which is s...

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 ...

Nature as Used in Dante's 'The Purgatorio' and 'The Inferno'

II). Through this imagery, Dante suggests that the human soul is naturally inclined to journey towards the light and to wish to as...

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...

“Relinquish All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here”

the Dark Ages, 2005). Most of the learning that took place was dedicated to organizing knowledge about the past; there was no atte...

Significance of Vernacular in "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer and "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri

Comedy." His Italian allegory depicts the Christian hereafter that is subdivided into cantos of Inferno (hell), Purgatorio (purga...

Various Approaches to Love in Literature

This essay presents an overview of how love is used thematic in various texts, which includes Dante's Divine Comedy, Chaucer's Can...

Virgil as Dante's Father Figure in the Divine Comedy

This 9 page paper gives an overview of the book The Divine Comedy by Dante. This paper includes examples form the test to explain ...

Jesus and Buddha

salvation" (Hanh). Buddhism holds that individuality is an illusion and teaches a belief in the "non-self" or "anatta" (Hanh). Chr...

An Examination of Arianism Theology

but with the passage of time and the emergence of Christ, this necessitated that their ideology allow for both Jew and Greek to me...

American Psycho/In Bruges

A 3 page essay that contrasts and compares American Psycho (2000, directed by Mary Harron) and In Bruges (2008, directed by Martin...