Dante's Inferno: Cantos I-III It's just like the video game, right? - ppt download

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Dante's Inferno: Cantos I-III It's just like the video game, right? - ppt download

A Man and His Allegory As your vocabulary packets will tell you, an allegory is any writing in verse or prose that has a double meaning. As your vocabulary packets will tell you, an allegory is any writing in verse or prose that has a double meaning. The entire Divine Comedy, from The Inferno to Paradise, is an allegory, where persons, abstract ideas, or events represent not only themselves on the literal level, but they also stand for something else on the symbolic level. The entire Divine Comedy, from The Inferno to Paradise, is an allegory, where persons, abstract ideas, or events represent not only themselves on the literal level, but they also stand for something else on the symbolic level.
The rivers in Hell serve, not only as geographic boundaries in Dante’s Hell, but as symbolic divisions for the severity of the sins (think 3 beasts). The river Acheron serves as a liminal symbol, representing the point of no return on Dante’s journey. The river Acheron serves as a liminal symbol, representing the point of no return on Dante’s journey..