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Lucifer and Canto XXXIV of Dante's 'Inferno'

merely a picture of a creature that is the embodiment of power and evil. And, as such it is not anything that Satan does, in terms...

Translations of Dante

both the keys." They begin to differ when they denote to what the keys belong. Singleton chooses to say "Fredericks heart," while ...

An Analysis of Tragedy in Three Plays

man is that he truly loves his wife and he is a noble and sensitive man. Unfortunately he has a weakness and that is his love of h...

Comparing Notre Dame to Hagia Sophia and Both to "Dante's Inferno"

But it also has a number of large clerestory windows that allow light to flood into the building. (A clerestory window is a window...

God's Perfect Judgment

did. He punished Adam and Eve for disobeying Him. As one pastor reminds us: "The Bible says that God will hold us accountable for ...

Dante's Inferno and the Placement of 'Prisoners' Saddam Hussein, Adolf Hitler, and Kurt Cobain

other "undesirables" including gypsies, homosexuals and others who were considered unfit. His crime then is genocide. Saddam Hu...

Dante's Hell and Characters

to house arrogant souls who are guilt of other things as well. While Aeneas may not be guilty of betrayal or other crimes, he may ...

Medieval Italian History and Literature

points out that "communal Italy" is "historians shorthand for the high urbanized areas of Lombardy and Tuscany between the twelfth...

The Function of Religion in Dante's "Inferno"

which he lived when he says that the poem is not the result of Dantes inner contemplation, "it is rooted in the immediate Christia...

Judas and Eve: Evil Deeds

is seen as a simple woman as well, a woman who loves her husband, is perhaps desiring of sexual relations with him, and ultimately...

Upper and Lower Hell in Dante’s Inferno

character is a woman who had an affair with her brother-in-law. This circle is followed by a level of gluttony. The fourth "The Av...

Dante the Sociologist.

the founders of modern sociology; his interests were wide ranging, including the sociology of politics and the sociology of religi...

Virgil in Dante's Inferno

fit their sin. As these people never committed themselves to anything, they chase an elusive banner for all eternity. Virgil expla...

Historical Consideration of Dante’s Inferno

He was relatively well educated, in both Christian and classical literature (Books and Writers, 2008). In addition, it is perhaps ...

The Inferno and its Classical Influences

Comedy", Europe was in the midst of a transitional period. The Christian church was already well established, but many of the most...

Oedipus' problem of Pride

This 5 page paper gives an overview of how Oedipus was a victim of fate in Oedipus the King. This paper includes how Oedipus was a...

Tension Between Individual and Group in Sophocles’ Oedipus Trilogy

Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...

Emperor Julius Caesar's Life and Times

a family name, became an important title (PG). Who was this Caesar everyone is enamored with? II. The Life and Times of Julius C...

Overview of Postmodern Views on William Shakespeare

In ten pages this paper examines postmodern philosopher Stanley Cavell's views on William Shakespeare's tragic plays Antony and Cl...

Innocence Lost in Literature

In five pages this paper examines how innocence is corrupted in a literary comparison and contrast of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bo...

Comparison of Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Oedipus the King by Sophocles

In eight pages the protagonists of each play are compared and contrasted in terms of desire for truth, changes, and the collision ...

William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Richard the Third and the King's Treatment of Women

In seven pages this paper considers Queen Elizabeth, Queen Margaret, and Lady Anne in terms of how they are treated by Richard III...

Gertrude in Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Jocasta in Oedipus the King by Sophocles Compared

on a number of issues. Jocasta is presented in Oedipus the King as a middle-aged woman, a bit reserved, and uncomfortable in the ...

Oedipus Complex and Hamlet: 'Love Thy Mother

were old With which she followed my poor fathers body Like Niobe, all tears;-why she, even she,- O God! a beast that wants discour...

Dante’s Inferno/Canto XX

because pity carries with it the connotation that divinely imposed punishment is less than just. He tells Dante to lift his eyes a...

Delayed Revenge in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

be condemned if he were killed at prayer. This speaks not only to the strength of religious belief at the time, but to the depth o...

Revenge and Doubt in William Shakespeare's Othello and Hamlet

and situations in black and white terms. Therefore, he is less tolerant of sin and more judgmental then his Danish counterpart. Wh...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Revenge

involve whether or not his new step father was responsible for killing his father, but doubts about how vengeance was best played ...

Quest Themes in Dante Alighieri's 'Inferno' and Homer's 'The Odyssey'

In five pages this paper examines how the quest theme is depicted in these works by Dante and Homer. Three sources are cited in t...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Gertrude II

is affected by parental behavior. Sometimes, there is no reason other than the childs own psychological makeup. It does not seem t...