ENG150Y1 Lecture Notes - Acheron, Phlegyas, Typography
Document Summary
Vividness of image; people actually believed he went to hell and back. Description of sound in the circle of the lustful and dante"s sense of experience, followed by similes makes the scene palpable, unforgettable. Reader is very aware of physical reality of hell, sense of movement through space that is aligned with the passing of time. Inferno 11 virgil"s explanation of the structure of hell, pause (because it smells) in narrative. Wrathful (river styx) (phlegyas) (gate of dis) (rebel angels, furies , gorgon) Difference between weak will (incontinences) and deliberately trying to hurt people (malice) More corrupt the will the more severe the punishment it is. Allegory of she-wolf suggests that dante is most bothered by incontinence. Habituation of sin can make a soul more corrupted. The lustful paolo and francesca (canto 5) Many historical figures featured (helen, dido, cleopatra) but he chooses to talk to people closer to his context as an italian.