Cultural Themes In Dantes Inferno - 1861 Words

Coming from the Dantes Divine comedy, one of the three canticles in which is mainly the most famous one and perhaps the one with the most meaning behind it. It perfectly explains so much about the era and time that Dante lived in and perhaps even some of his background can be felt and seen during the whole story itself. From a Florencia decent, especially in the middle age civilization, some of his hate or perhaps just cultural feelings of dislike towards some of the Greek, warriors and even top religious figures can be seen and understand the reason why he placed them in one of the nine parts of hell in his story. From many points of view, Inferno has been one of the most interesting books that have been written, reason being, all the†¦show more content†¦It talks about war and even some of the punishments they suffer while in each level of hell, they see all their suffering and the ever-lasting punishments that they have to suffer as a consequence of all of their errors, mistakes and decisions made on their time on earth. The world in hell has a totally different set up in the book rather than the casual all in flame, red and hot place that the most common person might think or describe, but an elevator kind of feel, with different stages, settings and even ice on hell. Hell is set up in nine circles that each contain a strong meaning and also some very interesting cultural figures, each circle has a meaning from Limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and the worst of them all, treachery were Lucifer himself was placed. Each of these levels are Dantes vision of hell, and for each sin is the way he grades how bad the action was. Nevertheless, the feeling of true dislike in some these important figures such as Alexander the Great, Pope Anastasias, Helen of Troy and even a Centaurus which is a mythological creature are place in hell for those motives. The level one, is the limbo, a place where people go if they are boarder line, in middle ages, some people who did not really follow or had the same beliefs as most people in the middle ages, which in fact was Christianity were sent to the limbo. Yes, they were not bad people,Show MoreRelatedThe, The Righteous Politician, Mulan, By Robert D. San Souci1275 Words   |  6 PagesMulan, The Righteous Activist Dante’s Inferno, although written more than 400 years ago, rings a certain familiarity with audiences everywhere. 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