FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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Charon
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Beatrice
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Minos
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -How does Charon react when he sees Dante, or a member of “the living". Charon refuses passage to Dante, telling him, basically threatening him to leave.
Detailed explanation-2: -Charon tells Dante to take a lighter craft from another shore. Virgil reprimands Charon, saying that it is willed, and what is willed must happen. Charon speaks no more, but by signs, and pushing, he herds the other spirits into the boat.
Detailed explanation-3: -When Dante and Virgil arrive at the bank of the Acheron, they witness a ferryman uttering dire threats to the shades. Described as a demon, Charon orders Dante to return because the living cannot cross the river.
Detailed explanation-4: -A figure taken from Greek mythology, Charon is the ferryman who transports dead souls across the river Acheron and into hell. At first, he refuses to ferry Dante across Acheron, because Dante is a living soul. But he agrees to help Dante when Virgil tells him that their journey is ordered by God’s will.