FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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they are in a lake of boiling blood
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they are under the murky lake up to their eyeballs
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they are turned into flesh eating hounds
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they are turned into trees
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Detailed explanation-1: -Dante describes a tortured forest infested with harpies, where the act of suicide is punished by encasing the offender in a tree, thus denying eternal life and damning the soul to an eternity as a member of the restless living dead, and prey to the harpies.
Detailed explanation-2: -Here, Blake depicts Dante and Virgil encountering the ‘Wood of the Suicides’. Suicide was then considered an immoral act. The souls of those who have died by suicide have been transformed into trees as punishment.
Detailed explanation-3: -Thirty-five years old at the beginning of the story, Dante-the character as opposed to the poet-has lost his way on the “true path” of life; in other words, sin has obstructed his path to God.
Detailed explanation-4: -The meaning of the punishment of the suicides is evident: In Hell, those who on Earth deprived themselves of their bodies are deprived of human form. At the Last Judgment the suicides will rise, like all the other souls, to claim their bodies, but they will never wear them.