ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

DANTE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What do Dante and Virgil first see when they emerge from hell?
A
The sun
B
The stars
C
Angels
D
Beatrice
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Leaving Hell This scares Dante who believes they will go back to Hell. Virgil reassures Dante then sets him down on a ledge. Dante looks up and sees legs then looks down and sees Lucifer’s torso. Dante is confused about how things got flipped upside down.

Detailed explanation-2: -Virgil leads Dante on a climb down Lucifer’s massive form, holding on to his frozen tufts of hair. Eventually, the poets reach the Lethe, the river of forgetfulness, and travel from there out of Hell and back onto Earth. They emerge from Hell on Easter morning, just before sunrise.

Detailed explanation-3: -Here Dante meets the souls of the unbaptised, of virtuous pagans and those who lived before the time of Christ; Hellenistic and Roman figures including Homer, Horace, Hector, and Lucius Junius Brutus, as well as Islamic scholars and nobility such as Saladin, Avicenna, and Averroes.

Detailed explanation-4: -The story begins with Dante getting lost in the woods on Maundy Thursday. He intends to climb a mountain but encounters three wild beasts who threaten him; as he wonders what to do, Virgil, the author of the Latin epic Aeneid, appears.

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