Dante writes the Comedy with the goal to remove all the living from their condition of misery and sin and guide them in a trip to happyness and bliss.Everyone can identify in Dante’s trip, even if it is a trip of moral and religious purification and he is firmly convinced that all of us should take the same trip in order to reach eternal salvation.In the moral sense the Comedy’s goal is to warn Christians against sins, showing them how easy it is to fall in temptation and how hard it is to bear the burden of it for eternity.
What is one reason Dante most likely wrote the Inferno?
B is almost certainly more likely. He stuffed all his personal and political enemies in various choice corners of Hell.
Dave Consiglio’s answer is pretty astute from a theological perspective, and Dante likely would have been intentionally steering the allegory in that direction, but you have to remember that Dante was first and foremost a poet, not a theologian, and his work had significant secular influence.Without getting into a whole lot of analysis of Dante’s religious-political battles (you can read a pretty succinct summary on Wikipedia), it suffices to say that Dante had a lot of secular and political interests. Yes, he understood and likely adhered to Catholic doctrine, but he was a member of the White Guelphs, a group that supported separation and freedom from Papal influence in Rome. Dante was considered a traitor for his views and was condemned to exile in 1302 under Pope Boniface. Soon after, the White Guelphs fell apart because of infighting and “treachery” among members, so Dante split from them, too.Dante began the Divine Comedy around 1308. This is 6 years after being exiled by the Church and subjected to fraud, treachery, and infighting in the White Guelphs.Do you see where I’m going with this? Art imitates life.In addition, Dante was fiercely dedicated to the ideas of love and loyalty. His works are considered immensely influential in Dolce Stil Novo, a literary movement that elevated “love” to a divine ideal.His devotion to the importance (and “divinity”) of human relationships (love and loyalty), and his very personal experiences with exile and treachery likely influenced Dante’s views of the lowest levels of Hell.Thanks for the A2A, Natalie Engelbrecht! I hope this answer passes muster!
Can anyone explain me what does the poem "Hill wife" by Robert Frost means ?
For the best answers, search on this site https://shorturl.im/ax1Ae The meaning of the poem is simple to deduce if you know a few things first. Frost uses 'fire' to stand for passion, desire, indeed jealousy (note that fire and desire rhyme and are associated in the popular consciousness); in the same way, Frost uses ice to stand for hatred, but also the cool head of reasoning. In some sense, to sin because of reason is worse that sinning due to passion, and perhaps less common since we make so many of our decisions, for better and for worse, based on passion. Since reason has, since the time of Aristotle, been considered God's supreme gift to man, to sin due to reason is a greater sin. In Dante's 'Inferno', those who committed sins of reason must, in the fires of Hell, stand in ice up to their necks, their eyes cast downward in shame for misusing God's supreme gift. What Frost seems to be saying is that the world can be destroyed through passion or through reason, and though the former is more likely, reason could also drive it to destruction. If it seems far-fetched to you that I'm pulling in Dante's 'Inferno" to explain Frost's poem, the nine lines of the poem correspond to the nine circles of Dante's Hell, and in the representational art for the "Inferno" the underworld is seen as a sort of funnel, with those committing sins of reason at the bottom; note that the appearance of the poem is that of a funnel, with longer lines of iambic tetrameter at the top and narrowing to iambic dimeter at the bottom. There is also an interesting anecdote in Frost's personal history that might explain why he chose this motif for his poem. In a chance meeting with the great American astronomer Harlow Shapley the year before the poem first appeared (1920), Frost asked how the world would end and Shapley said either the Sun would expand and Earth would be destroyed in a conflagration (fire) or it would die and the Earth would freeze solid (ice). With all of these influences, it's small wonder that Frost wrote this little philosophical gem or that it took the form it did.
Because Jason was pagan.Dante, while full of deep respect for the classical writers and poets, such as Ovid, Homer, and Virgil (Virgil even acts as his main guide throughout his Inferno and Purgatotio), was still a fairly devout Christian. His belief was that no one could escape Hell-fire without putting their faith in the death and resurrection of Jesus.Dante, however, also seemed to give harsher punishments to those that he personally believed deserved them. Many of his personal and political enemies can be found in the Inferno, many simply because he didn’t like them. Filippo Argenti (5th circle) is one of the most obvious examples of this. Dante also condemned Pope Boniface VIII, who held the title of Pope during Dante’s lifetime, to circle 8, although Boniface does not appear in the book.When it came to punishments for writers and characters of the classical works, Dante was just as prejudiced. The writers, who in many cases greatly inspired and influenced Dante, were given little to no punishment. They reside in a sort of limbo, cut off from Dante’s God, but receiving no punishments. This is the first circle, where Virgil resided before he became Dante’s guide.However, Dante feels no connection to many of the characters of classical works. Many of these characters committed (in Dante’s eyes) sinful and heinous acts, but none of them directly wrote works that inspired Dante. Dante thus had no reason to “save” them from the darker regions of Hell that they, in his eyes, deserved.Jason, for example, seduces the witch Medea (witchcraft is also a sin to Dante, remember), helps her betray her father and cut up her brother, and (in some versions) lets her kill King Pelias, who refused to give Jason the throne. Don’t forget that after all this, Jason still leaves Medea for another woman, Glauce, the daughter of king Creon of Corinth. (This drives Medea to kill Glauce, king Creon, and then all of her own children.)All in all, Jason was not a great guy. Maybe Dante would have alleviated his punishment if he had been a great classical author…
I hate being sensitive, can I turn around to not being that way?
You CAN, although it wouldn't be YOU. :) Everyone's different and God made us this way so we can be diverse and learn from one another. This means that even though some people can really make us angry, we need to have love in our hearts and patience for others. This allows us to learn how to work together and get along. Then we can learn from one another in a peaceful manor. The best thing to do would be to work on bettering yourself so you can be comfortable and not allow such things to bother you. Get this book my friend, it's called "The Power of Now" by Ekhart Tolle. Good book, it'll help you out. :)