Irony Analysis for Dante’s Inferno

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1 Dante’s InfernoBy: Eunice Luhanga

Sarah Moon

2 Favorite Much confusion and misunderstanding has been caused through the early translators of the Bible persistently rendering the Hebrew Sheol and the Greek Hades and Gehenna by the word hell. The simple transliteration of these words by the translators of the revised editions of the Bible has not sufficed to appreciably clear up this confusion and misconception.

Translators have allowed their personal beliefs to color their work instead of being consistent in their rendering of the original-language words. For example:1) The King James Version rendered she’ol’ as “hell,” “the grave,” and “the pit”. (2) Today’s English version transliterates hai’des as “Hades” and and also renders it as “hell” and “the world of the dead.”

In Ecclesiastes 9:5,10 says “The living are conscious that they will die; but as for dead, they are conscious nothing at all..

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Circle I / Canto IV

The concept of Limbo-a region on the edge of hell

(limbus means "hem" or "border") for those who are

not saved even though they did not sin--exists in Christian theology by Dante's time, but the poet's version of this region is more generous than most. Dante's Limbo--technically the first circle of hell--includes virtuous non-Christian adults in addition to unbaptized infants. We thus find here many of the great heroes, thinkers, and creative minds of ancient Greece and Rome as well as such medieval non-Christians as Saladin, Sultan of Egypt in the late twelfth century.

The common denominator among such scholars is that they regard the Gospel accounts as religious fiction handed down by various individuals. According to available evidence, the Gospels were written between the years 41 and 98 C.E. Jesus died in the year 33 C.E. This means that the accounts of his life were put together in a comparatively short time after his ministry ended.

4 Historical Connection

Canto V explains about death and sufferings we have and judges about it . It caused by Adam and Eve, they failed to obey God. A rebellious spirit creature, later identified as Satan the Devil, convinced Eve that it was not in her best interests to obey God. In fact, God was supposedly depriving her of something highly desirable: independence, the right to choose for herself what was good and what was bad. Satan claimed that if she ate of the tree, 'her eyes were bound to be opened and she was bound to be like God, knowing good and bad.' (Genesis 3:1-6; Revelation 12:9) Seduced by the prospect of independence, Eve partook of the forbidden fruit, and Adam soon did the same.

5 Historical connection (Con.)That same day, Adam and Eve began to experience the results of their rebellion. By rejecting divine rulership, they lost out on the protection and blessings that subjection to God had afforded them. God evicted them from Paradise and told Adam: "Cursed is the ground on your account. In pain you will eat its produce all the days of your life. In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground." Adam and Eve became subject to sickness, pain, aging, and death. Suffering had become a part of human experience that we face now. How heartening it is to know that our loving and all-powerful God, cares for us and that he will shortly bring relief to mankind.

6 Parody Canto IIIIn many ways, Satan(opposer)'s rebellious course parallels that of "the king of Tyre," who was described poetically as "perfect in beauty" and 'faultless in his ways from the day of his being created until unrighteousness was found in him.' (Ezekiel 28:11-19) Satan did not contest God's supremacy or his Creatorship. Satan did, however, challenge the way God was exercising his sovereignty. In the garden of Eden, Satan insinuated that God was