ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

DANTE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who is it that in Paradise reveals to Dante the meaning of the prophecies about exile?
A
Beatrice
B
the emperor Justinian
C
Cacciaguide
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Cacciaguida said to Dante, “God knows all about the existence and the nonexistence of all contingent things. God knows the past, the present, and the present. But this does not take away from free will. God exists outside of space and time, and God sees the past, the present, and the future all at the same time.

Detailed explanation-2: -It is an allegory telling of Dante’s journey through Heaven, guided by Beatrice, who symbolises theology.

Detailed explanation-3: -The whole cosmos, according to Dante, ultimately depends on God who, as the ground of all being, exists beyond space and time in the Empyrean. The Empyrean is an immaterial heaven, made up only of the love and metaphysical light which God is. It is in the Empyrean that the angels and the blessed also dwell.

Detailed explanation-4: -The metaphor of Francis as the groom of Poverty, his bride, governs the story of his life, as Dante tells it in Paradiso 11.

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