Dante’s Inferno Flashcards
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(Slide 2) The Basics to know
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- Written by Dante Alighieri
- Part 1 of the Divine Comedy & follow Dante and Virgil
- CONTENT WARNING (Gore and scary)
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(Slide 3) How Dante’s Hell works
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- 9 layers with progressively worse sins. going towards the centre of the earth
- This is all fair according to God, (follow character development)
- Greek Minos judges your life and send you to your respective layer
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(Slide 4) Prelude
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- Wakes in dark wood… climbs mountain… attacked by lion, wolf and leopard
- Virgil sais Beatrice sent him… under order of God, the Virgin Mary, Saint Lucia, and Rachel.
- The only way to get up the cliff is when “one day, the greyhound comes to chase the wolves away”… Judgment Day
- They arrive at the gates of hell where inscription read “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here”
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(Slide 5) Upon Entering
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- cries and screams
- Outcasts are Stung by wasp as worms drink blood tears and pus, cursed to eternal meaningless suffering…doomed to chase unreachable black flag, symbolic of life wasted on no heavenly pursuit.
- River Acheron, must cross to get into Hell. Charon rises with a boat
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(Slide 6) Layer 1: Limbo
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- Those who were good, but lived before Jesus…. After those who refused choice, come those without opportunity of choice
- limbo is just like earth except perpetual sighing with no passion/ hope and eternal boredom
- When Jesus died, he came to Limbo to bring back Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, etc
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(Slide 7) Layer 2: Lust
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- People live in violent thrashing hurricane winds… just like they lived being blown around by love
- Achilles (Greek hero), Cleopatra (she slept with a bunch of leaders to get what she wanted, and she helped tear the Roman Empire apart)
- Dante passes out and he wakes up in the next layer
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(Slide 8) Layer 3: Gluttony
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- people who eat more than their ration/ need
- pelted by rain and hail & torn up by Cerberus
- Character development
- lay in a half eaten state until judgement day… Virgil says that their suffering will be perfect
- also learn souls can only see past and future of earth, never present
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(Slide 9) Layer 4: Greed
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- people who hordes money
- sea of violent human waves crashing into each other
- massive money bag they fight over and beat each other up with
- Dante asks Virgil if he’d know anyone down here… Vigil says you wouldn’t recognize them cuz their faces are caved in and bodies are broken
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(Slide 10) Layer 5: Wrath
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- They come to the edge of a mud broth full of naked people fighting & pushing each other under
- This is for the mean/ angry people go. Forever cursed to bully each other
- They hop on a boat to cross… someone pushes himself up and talks to Dante… Vigil shoves him back down… people laugh at him… he’s so humiliated he bites chucks of skin off himself.
- the boat (driven by Flagus) is leading towards the City of Dis
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(Slide 11) City of Dis
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- active torture begins
- demons at the gates refuse to let Dante in
- Medusa comes out… if you’re turned to some here, you’ll be stuck for forever
- Angel let’s him in… Dante is relieved to know that God is watching over him on this scary journey
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(Slide 12) Layer 6: Heresy
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- strained people away from God/ truth…..
- doomed to lay in burning rock tombs as demons watch
- king Fredrick II on emperor side during pope vs emperor war… Epicurus told followers there’s no afterlife
- as they keep walking, this NASTY smell comes around and we learn layer 789 are subdivided
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( Slide 13) Layer 7: Violence (subdiv 1)
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- people who commit violence against others
- bath in River of boiling blood… centaurs shoot arrows at crawlers… the deeper the River, the worse the crime
- They wallowed in blood in life, so doomed to boil in it for eternity
- Alexander the Great (killed ppl for glory)…. Attila the Hun (Roms greatest challenger)
- they ride on Nessus’ back to 2nd subdiv
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( Slide 14) layer 7: Violence (subdiv 2)
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- suicide forest… thorny, frail, dead trees, being fed upon by harpies
- they refused life, so they remain in a dead and withered state… They’re the image of the self-hatred which dries up the very sap of energy and makes all life.
- Judgment day, they’ll be left to hang where they did so irl
- ## Dante snaps off a branch, and two men are ravaged by dogs
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( Slide 15) Layer 7: Violence (subdiv 3)
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- violence upon God/ Nature (beastiality/ gays)
- walk of hot sand as it rains fire…. If you stop your stuck for 100 years
- Dante’s teacher is hear, rumoured to be gay… put Dante’s priorities into place, altho he feels bad
- loan sharks are down here (charge high interest) cuz it’s a sin against nature
- they get to a waterfall where a griffin takes them down
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(Slide 16) Layer 8: Fraud (1&2)
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- Layer of fraud is organized by 10 CONCENTRIC trenches, each concerning a subdivision
—Fraud 1: Deceiving Love
- human traffickers, cheaters, etc
- Dante comes across a brother who sold his sister to a lustful man…. And a man who abandoned his pregnant wife
- eternity of sprinting and whipping
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Fraud 2: lyres/ deceptive speakers - those who lie to get what they want
- swim in poop with sores and infection
