ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE

Agenda Writing Prompt

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.

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?

DANTE’S INFERNO Told in 10 minutes

TAKE OUT PAPER FOR AN ASSIGNMENT

Read 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) What is allegory? Can you think of an example of allegory? What is imagery and how can you interpret an

image?

http://donaldsweblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/oh-angst.html

The Forest, Illustration by Gustav Dore

ON YOUR PAPER 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

GROUPS OF 2-4 I 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 summaryAs you read, make sure to consult the notes

at the bottom to aid your understanding

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?

DESIGN YOUR OWN LEVELS-PICK 1 TO REPRESENT THROUGH WORDS OR VISUALS

Punishment Reward

What is the crime? Who is there? What is their

punishment?

What is the virtue? Who is there? What is their

reward?

KEY TERMS DEFINED BY DICTIONARY.COM

Purgatory Limbo

*(in the belief of Roman Catholics and others) a condition or place in which the souls of those dying penitent are purified from venial sins, or undergo the 

temporal punishment that, after the guilt of mortal sin has 

been remitted, still remains to be endured by the sinner.

*any condition or place of 

temporary punishment, suffering, expiation, or the like.

*In Roman Catholic Theology . A region on the border of hell or heaven, serving as the abode after death of unbaptized 

infants (limbo of infants)  and 

the righteous who died before 

the existence of Christianity (limbo of the fathers 

or  limbo of the patriarchs).

VISUALS TO ACCOMPANY

THE TEXT

VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS

Interactive Map 1 Interactive Map 2 Illustrations of Gustav Dore Paintings of Yates Thompson

http://www.danteinferno.info/circles-of-hell/

The violent against people and property, the suicides, blasphemers, and the userers.

http://www.vogliosapere.org/wp-content/uploads/Dante-s-inferno.jpg

http://www.italnet.nd.edu/Dante/images/tp1568/1568.inf1.wc.150dpi.jpeg

HERO’S JOURNEY OF DANTE Considering the Divine Comedy as a

whole (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso), how does this work represent a classical hero’s journey?