FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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Guinevere, Dido, and Francesca
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Homer, Dante, and Virgil
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Brutus, Cassius, and Judas
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Pope Nicholas, Pope Boniface, and Pope Clement
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Detailed explanation-1: -Judas, Brutus and Cassius are found in the lowest level of the ninth and final circle of hell. They are being punished by ‘The king of the vast kingdom of all grief’ (Dante, 1971: p.
Detailed explanation-2: -The circles are concentric, representing a gradual increase in wickedness, and culminating at the centre of the earth, where Satan is held in bondage. The sinners of each circle are punished for eternity in a fashion fitting their crimes: each punishment is a contrapasso, a symbolic instance of poetic justice.
Detailed explanation-3: -Inferno tells the story of Dante’s journey through a vision of the Christian hell ordered into nine circles corresponding to classifications of sin; the third circle represents the sin of gluttony, where the souls of the gluttonous are punished in a realm of icy mud.
Detailed explanation-4: -Description. This literary themed quote by Dante Alighieri, from Canto 3, Inferno, “The darkest places of hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis” was one of President Kennedy’s favourite quotes.
Detailed explanation-5: -Betrayal against a close loved one is the sin that results in being sent to the Ninth Circle. Contrary to popular depictions of Hell as a hot, fiery place, Dante’s Ninth Circle is a frozen lake because it is devoid of love and warmth.