Dante The Pilgrim Analysis

Virigilus wisdom and guidance lead Dante to escape Hell and receive his salvation. Rolland was too prideful to accept wise counsel from Olivier, his noble companion. When Rolland and Olivier realized they were outnumbered, Olivier advised him to sound the horn, but Rolland refused. Unfortunately, Rolland died on the battlefield against his enemy. However, he still was victorious unto death, because those whose died in battle would enter Paradise as a

The biggest theme of The Great Divorce is salvation; more specifically, ensuring one’s immortal soul reaches Heaven and not Hell through the exercising correct moral choices in life and the practice of forgiving others and seeking forgiveness for your own sins. For Lewis, Heaven and Hell are not metaphoric or ideas, they are real places. In the book, Lewis develops this by having other related themes that affect salvation like, vanity vs. pride, love, the value of ideologies, faith vs. skepticism, jealousy, anger, and forgiveness. In the book, to enter the Heaven, ghosts are told that all they need to do is accept God and let go their earlier selfish interests. Lewis shows examples of people who are to attached to their pride, like the

In Canto IV, Dante addresses two theological issues of salvation. According to Christianity, all souls that lived sinless life but were not baptized, are denied salvation. Dante designates his first circle of hell, called Limbo, for those poor souls. In Limbo, they are not tortured, but the cannot have salvation. It was a very simple and brilliant solution.

Beowulf's actual expectation when battling the winged serpent was not to secure his kin yet rather to improve his legacy and to kick the bucket with honor. Realizing that he had no beneficiary and that he was going to die , Beowulf battled the monster with total surrender. This sentenced the Geats to a falling flat society upon his passing. While these demonstrations unmistakably exhibit Pagan conduct, Christian friars interpreting this ballad urgently needed to fuse the temperances of Christianity and depict Beowulf driving a righteous life. In doing as such, they incredibly changed the importance of the epic

Both Francesca and Ugolino’s judgements resulted from deliberation and thought, and both of their thoughts were greatly influenced by their oppressed state and some biological factors. They were diverted away from the First good, which made them turn toward the apparent goods. The use of free will in the Inferno served as a path to sin for both Francesca and Ugolino. Dante recognizes that Francesca had very weak control over her judgements, and that love overpowered her, but he also made it clear that she deserves to be in hell. As for Ugolino, he also used his free will to resist loving his sons.

The tone of this novel is a bit harder to explain. It is full of remorse and hate, but also love. Love for each other and hate for the accusers and remorse for the accused. “We had such a good chance”...”I told him [my thoughts; however, in truth I couldn 't say] that we had more than a good chance.”...”I guess Tom was tired of white men 's chances and wanted to take his own.” These quotes show that Atticus believes that Tom had hope. A chance to be free once again, but in all the hate and disgust he figured he had no chance of breaking free.

The theme of sin prevalent through diction and some alliteration. For example, Satan banished from heaven because of his sin; therefore, gave his condolences for the place he knew as he stated here,”Farewell happy fields, where joy forever dwells!” Diction like “happy fields” to the “horrors of hell" show that Satan has remorse for the land he lived in, but he valued his sin more than some cherished land. As a result of his sin, Satan bids farewell to the paradise he once lived in as if some notion of exile from one 's home were intimately bound up with the thought of sin. Also note the use of alliteration with the “h” and “f” sounds throughout the line to paint the bleakness of Satan’s sin. Milton showed us that Satan had a rational behavior compared to what we might 've thought Satan fueled of rage.

The Capulet and Montague feud was not the source of Romeo and Juliet’s circumstance, but their narcissistic projection. Their love brought them temporary pleasure; however, that same love caused their permanent end. Romeo is the main factor behind the demise of Juliet and himself. Romeo is introduced as a passive man who deeply longs for romance. He is a slave to passion and romance and is obsessed with obtaining it with whoever is willing to reciprocate.

Before setting out for the journey, Dante spoke cowardly to Virgil: “Poet, you who guide me, consider if my powers will suffice before you trust me to this arduous passage” (Inferno, 2.10). Clearly, Dante did not think of himself as a hero. Despite already having Virgil as a guide, Dante still lacked confidence and commitment. This confirmed that fact that Dante will unlikely tour hell alone; therefore, unable to reach the divine heaven. Here, I argued that he had intentionally done this to illustrate the Christian ideal that ones could not achieve one’s ultimate goal alone.

Interviewer: Now, moving on to you great work The Divine Comedy. Why are the punishments so grotesque and at times even inhuman? Alighieri: While some of this punishment can be grotesque or inhuman, you have to take into consideration that these people have committed grave sins. Therefore they most pay. Interviewer: If you excuse my interruption, not all have committed sins that would have them places in hell.

Being very critical on Catholicism, he thought the bible was an outdated source even though it had good scriptures. He took interest in the Islamic religion in which he thought was very barbaric or a genuine humane religion: as well as Hinduism. His interest in different religions, actually inspired famous quotations in his different works for example “All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds” which is from his famous novella Candide. Voltaire wrote Candide as mocking to the idea that God created it all; since he does not believe in the existent of God he mocks the idea. Voltaire as a philosopher took the advantage of the beliefs of other people and since God is perfect, he created an Enlightenment novella that illustrates characters who believe in the “good of all evil”.

Character + Theme Dante’s change of mindset from inquisitive to analytical allows him to see the effects of his actions more greatly than before. Dante’s interest in watching two souls quarrel earns him a scolding from Virgil. He encourages Dante not to be amused or interested by sinners but rather look at them through God’s justice. Dante is immediately ashamed of his action that he feels,” wheeled about with such a starch of shame that (he) grow pale yet at the memory” (30.134-135) a response he would not have shown in the earlier Cantos. Dante begins to understand how his actions affect himself and the people around him, interest or compassion for the sinners does more bad than good for both of them.