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Dantes Divine Comedy
Title: Dantes Divine Comedy
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1322 | Pages: 5.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Dantes Divine Comedy
“Dante’s Divine Comedy and Aeneid”
In Dante’s Divine Comedy, Dante incorporates Virgil’s portrayal of Hades from The Aeneid into his poem, and similarities between the Inferno and Hades can be drawn, however Dante wasn’t attempting to duplicate Virgil’s works. Although the hell depicted in Dante’s Inferno is essentially based on the literary construction of the underworld found in Virgil’s Aeneid, in their particulars the two kingdoms are quite …showed first 75 words of 1322 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1322 total…in pain…(885) As if to balance his references to the Christian and classical worlds, Dante places Cassius and Brutus alongside Judas in the mouth of Satan, as all are betrayers. Dante’s hell is a closed system, with no escape for the damned, whereas Virgil’s open underworld encompasses purgatory and paradise as well. There are many similarities between Virgil and Dante’s hells. However it is evident they had different views of the afterlife.
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