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Friday, September 14, 2018

extra credit: Reading notes: Dantes Inferno: part B

The inferno 
 Image by di Fruosino

These are a few notes to help me keep track:
The seventh level is violence all kinds whether acts of violence, self violence(suicide), or violence towards god.
The eighth level is full of liars and schemers. To make sure I understood I looked it up and it the level of fraud. Dante reached this level on the back of Greyon (a creature)
From the looks of it the ninth level of hell is treachery and contains Satan himself


I will write the last two parts of my stories using these final 3 levels of hell with some leeway. I may go back and rethink the way I want to set the story up. I think I will make the final level of hell its own story for it contains treachery and Satan making those who committed the greatest treacheries suffer the most. And I may have the eighth and seventh level together. The thing I may have to do is skip a level or two such as purgatory and gluttony level 3. I would mention them but I don't see the best way to fit them into the story. I know I will not stick with many of the original creatures to make the story my own but I also can not include every detailed areas from the original story for it would make it too long. I will put my own modern twists on the features of hell but keep to the original sins that got people there such as lust greed and so on.But with each levels sin I will add modern people who would be there and the modern ways of committing these sins. I will also add creatures of my own for the sins. i want to keep Cerberus in the mention of level 3. So to tally up, I will start my journey, mention the purgatory and traveling through it, then I will describe lust level which is level 2, and mention gluttony because I believe level 3 is just a subcategory of level 4 which is greed and would be described in detail next. These will be the first story. The second will contain detail on level 5 and 6 which are anger or wrath then heretic. The third story will contain levels 7 and 8 which are violence then fraud. To end I will discuss the ninth level which is treachery which contains Satan himself for betraying god.

Bibliography: Dante's Divine Comedy, translated by Tony Kline

Friday, September 7, 2018

extra credit: Reading notes: Dantes Inferno: part A

  Dante in the inferno 

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Simple notes to help me keep track (useful to me):
Dante's starts in purgatory
Moves on to level 2 which is lust
The 3rd level contained Cerberus the 3 headed dog and gluttony aka light greed
The 4th level is greed
The 5th level is anger and wrath
The 6th level is hertics or those who follow faith wrong the city of dis

I have just finished reading Dante's Inferno part A. These notes will be based on the project I have chosen to do. The story start off with Dante in a Forest trying to ascend to heaven up a mountain from what I understood. He find the path impossible so he stay where he is at until virgil comes along to show him there is another way and to follow him. He leads dante to the entrance of hell and will guide him through. I would change my guide to a jewish person for it has great biblical irony for in the jewish faith one does not believe in hell. I not sure because i do not want to offend by doing this. I would write my first part of my story to include the first 4 levels of hell. I would start of with a quick intro to purgatory for there is not a whole to lot to say. I would say a lot for the 2nd level which is lust. For the 3rd and 4th level intertwine the two for they are so similar. I would hit a 2 for one. I would write these in a way for modern audiences to understand with what modern sin would have you in that level and name some modern people who are there. I would also put a twist on the punishment for the people in these places. The second part of my story would include the 5th and 6th levels of hell for their are many things that I could write about in modern day to be a part of these levels of hell and many people who could be used as examples of those who dwell on those levels. Putting the modern twist on punishment and people would be the goal to make the story my own.

bibliography: Dante's Divine Comedy, translated by Tony Kline