FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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Question
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To show the first sinners
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To explain the initial conflict
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To clarify who Satan is
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To clarify the need for a savior
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Detailed explanation-1: -Canto 1 of Dante’s Inferno serves as the introduction both to the Inferno and to the entire Divine Comedy. We meet Dante as he is lost in a dark wood. He sees a light at the top of a hill and tries to run toward it, but he is confronted by three beasts.
Detailed explanation-2: -Summary: Canto I In dark woods, the right road lost. Halfway through his life, the poet Dante finds himself wandering alone in a dark forest, having lost his way on the “true path” (I. 10). He says that he does not remember how he lost his way, but he has wandered into a fearful place, a dark and tangled valley.
Detailed explanation-3: -Virgil tells Dante that the work of the wolf will continue on earth until a savior comes to liberate the world. Virgil’s prophecy is very dark, and it’s about a savior who will be nourished with wisdom, love, and virtue, and who will drive away the wolf into the hell. The savior will be born in “felt, ” Virgil says.
Detailed explanation-4: -Major conflict Dante attempts to find God in his life, while those sentenced to punishment in Hell hinder him from the true path.