Levels of Hell
by So, I took it upon myself to read Dante's Inferno with no real reason besides pure interest. I must say I was completely stupid when going to buy it and looking in the fiction section of Barnes and Nobels. Yeah..it's prose so I was directed to the poetry section. It took me a long time to read which was generally upsetting because I am a quick reader but I think it was worth it because I enjoy the end. There are three people who receive the ultimate punishment of being forever gnawed upon by Satan..do you know who they are?
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i only read portions of this in my italian class along w/ stuff by petrach. what i remember is..dante's last name is aliegheri.
this book actually wanst written to describe the actual levels of hell. in fact, the three books (about hell, [urgatory & heaven) were written to describe the revolutionary future of the three main social gruops under afuture idealistic communist or socialist setting. those of upper class would descend to the bottom "hell", and the poor would be elevated to "heaven", while the middle class would linger in the middles, or "purgatory".
Where did you learn this? I've never heard that before. I knew it was a type of social commentary but..
i know one is judas. cortez the conquistador and charles darwin are my other guesses.
May I ask why? I don't think Charles Darwin was around yet at that time..maybe I'm wrong. I'm very bad with that kind of stuff.
he might have not been. but i was just thinking of bad people. and he stole all his work from one of his best friends that had been studying the idea of evolution for 35 years. he stole it and wrote a 11 page paper (so he got the credit cuz he printed the idea first) and then 2 weeks later this guy brought out his 300 page explanation. so i think he's a traitor cuz he based his whole life and reputation on something he didn't develop.
Yeah..he's definetly not nice..but these are like known for being traitors.
i know judas is one.
Duh..cause of Alex's talk. You may guess one of the others but I declare the third impossible, I didn't even know the guy existed.
come on you gotta tell who they are!!!!
No, I definetly do not.
wait.....you still haven't told!!!!!!!!!!! we had this arguement so long ago. who are they!!!!!!!!!!!!!??????????? tell!!
I know that this thread has been dormant for a couple of months, but in case anyone is wondering, the other two were Brutus and Cassius, two of the men who organized the assassination of Julius Caesar. (BTW, thatdarngirl, if you manage to guess Brutus you should also know Cassius.)
AW..I was trying not to ruin it for everyone! If they wanted to know I was just gonna message them about it. And I've never even heard of Cassius..some History major I would have been!
Not really, he's a major character in William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar". Then again, I'm not sure if that's still required reading in high school, so maybe you wouldn't know about him.
In my High School we got to choose which play we wanted to read, I read Ophello. We also read King Lear and a Midsummers Night Dream. I should probably pick it up and read it, but I've also never read Romeo and Juliet and that's fairly important.
I haven't read nearly enough Shakespeare, but we read Julius Caesar in 10th grade, so I remembered that. I find it really amazing how many of the sayings we still use even now originated with Shakespeare, and there are even more great sayings in there that aren't used anymore.
My school didn't really read enough Shakespeare either (I forgot that we read Macbeth as well). However, this is ok with me because I'm not a big fan of Shakespeare. He's amazing, but to me most of his stories seem like 50 cent romance novels.
man, i've already read Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Caesar, and this year we're reading King Leer... i guess my school is big on the Shakespeare lol
Of course, you have to realize that one of the reasons they seem cliched now is that so much of modern theater and movies derives from Shakespeare. Also, I think it is more impressive when you actually see the plays performed as opposed to just reading them.
i went to see othello today!!!!! it was very good. i saw amanda and sarah there. interesting. the black guy that played othello was HUGE!! the top of all the other actor's heads came up to his shoulder. then he was in love with this little tiny white girl w/ blonde hair. quite comical.
probably adam, eve, and judas I guess.
no. please tell me.
Are you serious because I don't feel that you are?
well i'm serious. i was 'this' close to buying the book... i hear it's one of the greatest poems ever. was it ? and what 3 people get nawed by the dark one forever?
Yeah..as far as poetry goes it's simply amazing. The problem is in the different circles of hell all the people being tortured are major political/religious figures of that era so most of the time you have nooo idea who they are save for the occasional well known name. I still have to read the next two: Purgatory and Heaven (I forget the real names). The 3 are the greatest traitors of all time- I can't say more or I'll ruin it, it's fun to guess while you're reading.
well i'm not going to read it... seeing as how i just ordered 13 books... so.... let meee know...
i'm being serious. i'm not an **** allll the time. i imagine he'd pick on judas iscaiot, george washington, and the pope!
edited by for language!
Well, George Washington wasn't alive when Dante wrote. (He's about two hundred years later.) And while there are several popes serving their time in Dante's Hell, they are not being personally tortured by Satan.
Whoops. Make that 450 years later.