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American Gothic of Grant Wood

In five pages this research analyzes the painting and the artist's aesthetic intentions in a consideration of hidden symbolism, at...

Earth and Heaven According to Dante Alighieri and Augustine of Hippo

tells the reader that all the Romans desired, and more, would actually be found in the City of God. This is not to say that moneta...

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...

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 ...

Quest and the Works of Dante and Homer

journey of humanity through life. Dantes epic charts a journey of the soul, from the depths of degradation to the radiance of rede...

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 ...

'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...

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,...

Gluttony and How Dante Would Punish It

and contest the idea that their weight is problematic. They contend that they are healthy the way they are and there is a fat acce...

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...

'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...

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...

Edgar Allan Poe's "Ligeia" and William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" Uses of Gothic Symbolism

- into a "setting conducive to unrest and fears" (Fisher 75). The narrator reveals that his grief over his wife Ligeias death pro...

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...

Dante, the Inferno, and the Question of Gender

human existence that it informs all aspects of society. This paper considers the way Dante portrays gender concepts of masculinity...

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...

Hell: A Personal Vision of Hell as Inspired by Dante

This inscription is only a introduction to all that awaits those that enter the gates of Hell and who therefore fail to achieve th...

Hell and Satan in 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton and 'Inferno' by Dante Alighieri

sins and sinners are tortured for eternity. In all honesty, each level seems horrible with no descending level becoming any more f...

Logos in Canto VII, Circle 5 to 7 of Inferno by Dante Alighieri

go to those government officials who have accepted bribes, or religious leaders who had aspired to political power. According to D...

Faith and Reason in the Thinking of Thomas Aquinas and Dante Alighieri

be an object of science. To this question, Aquinas answers "no." First of all, following the medieval style of reasoning, he posit...

'Inferno' by Dante Alighieri

is in line with Christian ideology. In Dantes interpretation of events, Hell is reserved for the pagans, again a tribute...

Marie de France by Dante

In three pages this essay considers how the passion Marie de France and her lover share is compared with her contention God suppor...

'Inferno' by Dante Alighieri and 9th U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky

In five pages this paper considers how to relate Pinsky's concepts to 'Inferno' based upon an April 1995 Atlantic Monthly online d...

'The Inferno' by Dante and the Character of Francesca da Rimini

In five pages this paper examines the significance of Francesa da Rimini and the sympathy she inspires because of the afterlife in...

Inferno by Dante Alighieri and Symbolism

in terms of structure, there is a single canto as an introduction, and then each of the three books is made up of thirty three can...

Inferno by Dante Alighieri, Magic and Technology Conceptual Intersections

In five pages the ways in which magic and technology concepts intersect throughout the allegory along with their connections and d...

'Inferno' by Dante and Contrapasso

crime. Several rings down, Dante and Virgil arrive at a somewhat darker cluster, that of Violent Crimes. This ring is epitomized ...

Othello by William Shakespeare, 'Inferno' by Dante and Dying for Love

In a paper consisting of 5 pages Desdemona's submissiveness and Francesca's defense of her adulterous behavior are compared from a...

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...