Agenda
Please pick up a lit
book
 Writing prompt-Have
lit. texts out to be
checked.
 Finish Dante
Introduction if we
didn’t Friday
 Read brief selections
from Dante’s Inferno
in the literature text.
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Writing Prompt
If someone were a
bad or evil person,
what happens when
they die? What is it
like for them?
 If someone were a
good and righteous or
enlightened person,
what happens when
they die? What is it
like for them?
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 Told
in 10 minutes
 Read
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page 656
Why did Dante write in Italian?
What is the importance of numbers in Dante’s
Divine comedy?
Why is Beatrice important to Dante and his work?
 Read
page 657 (section on allegory and
imagery)
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What is allegory?
Can you think of an example of allegory?
What is imagery and how can you interpret an
image?
The Forest,
Illustration by
Gustav Dore
http://donaldsweblog.blogspot.com/2
011/01/oh-angst.html
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Make a chart that looks like this
Canto I: Pages 659-661
 Canto III: Pages 665-666, line 10
 Canto V: Pages 675
detail, object, person, etc
symbolic equivalent
Dark Wood
Sin
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will assign you either Canto V or XXXIV
You need to fill out the allegory/symbolism chart
for your canto
Write a one paragraph plot summary
As you read, make sure to consult the notes at
the bottom to aid your understanding
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1 First Circle (Limbo)
2 Second Circle (Lust)
3 Third Circle (Gluttony)
4 Fourth Circle (Avarice)
5 Fifth Circle (Anger)
6 Sixth Circle (Heresy)
7 Seventh Circle (Violence)
8 Eighth Circle (Fraud)
9 Ninth Circle (Treachery)
Why are they in this order?
Punishment
What is the crime?
 Who is there?
 What is their
punishment?
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Reward
What is the virtue?
 Who is there?
 What is their reward?
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Purgatory
Limbo
*(in the belief of Roman Catholics
*In Roman Catholic Theology . A
and others) a condition or
place in which the souls of
those dying penitent are purified
from venial sins, or undergo the
region on the border of hell or he
aven, serving as the abode
after death of unbaptized
temporal punishment that,
after the guilt of mortal sin has
the righteous who died before
been remitted, still remains
to be endured by the sinner.
*any condition or place of
temporary punishment, suffering,
expiation, or the like.
infants (limbo of infants) and
the existence of Christianity
(limbo of the fathers
or limbo of the patriarchs).
 Interactive
Map 1
 Interactive Map 2
 Illustrations of Gustav Dore
 Paintings of Yates Thompson
The violent against people and property,
the suicides, blasphemers, and the userers.
http://www.danteinferno.inf
o/circles-of-hell/
http://www.vogliosapere.org/wpcontent/uploads/Dante-s-inferno.jpg
http://www.italnet.nd.edu/Dante/imag
es/tp1568/1568.inf1.wc.150dpi.jpeg
 Considering
the Divine Comedy as a whole
(Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso), how does
this work represent a classical hero’s
journey?