because they don’t have enough experiences. What Dante mentions, except for first one, all have a common trait that is indulging self. All sinners indulge the control to sex, to food, to money and to emotions, which means that they don’t have good characters or personalities. Comparing to Violence and Fraud, sins are not much severe, and thus, they are put outside of
This section was assigned to those who commit the sins of fraud. The circle consisted of eight rings, with each represented a distinct type of fraud. For instance, in Canto XX, the Pilgrim and Virgil explored the sin of divination, committed by those who foresaw or debased the truth. This very canto will be the subject of in-depth analysis of the true nature of the sin and the idea of truth. In this fourth ring inhabited those who could saw the future. The punishment that struck on them was having their
This literary analysis will define the use of kidnapping, violence, and international blackmail as a method of counteracting American imperialism by criminal syndicates in Bel Canto by Ann Patchett and The News of A Kidnapping by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Marquez’s story of nine kidnappings in Colombia during the early 1990s is a commentary on the power of drug cartels, such as the Medellin, to use kidnapping and violence to blackmail to stop the extradition of leaders, such as Pablo Escobar. The
There are two triangular relationships that can be seen as Hellish parodies of the Holy Trinity. First is the relationship between Lucifer, Dante the character, and Virgil which could be seen as a manifestation of the Holy Trinity—the “king of Hell,” the pilgrim, and the guide respectively—except it can never be a true trinity because Dis is unable to communicate with the other two. The second relationship
The Other Side of Death (An analysis of Dante’s Inferno, whether Hell scares us to be better people.) What is Hell? “It is a place of punishments for sinners. Those who refuse to repent and see the error of their ways will be condemned to an eternity in the hellfires.” (Zagata, Darlene, 2008) One of the best stories about the mystery of what happens in Hell is Dante’s story called the Inferno. This tells of Dante getting lost in a forest, and he comes upon a man. The man is his favorite poet Virgil