Does anyone know the theme for Dante's Divine Comedy? Greatly appreciated!?

Answer 1

Please refer to :
http://www.thedivinecomedy.com/
http://www.dante.ilt.columbia.edu/comedy/index.html
http://www.angelfire.com/ak/Nyquil/Dante.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Divine_Comedy
These will give you its theme, plus lots more !

Answer 2

Volumes have been written on this, but, simply, it is an allegory on the nature of salvation. Dante decided there would be three sections, one for each branch of the Holy Trinity; then decided each section would consist of 33 cantos, one for each year in the life of Christ; then, for reasons I've never understood, he tacked an extra canto on to make it an even hundred, never mind that this threw his symbology off. The narative involves the poet being given a tour of the afterlife, Hell (the Inferno), Purgatory (the Purgatorio), and Heaven (the Paradiso). The lesson of the Inferno is reflected in Dante's initial horror and pity at the suffering which eventually gives way to an understanding that these people are here through rejection of Divine Grace, their own decision, and having put themselves there, they deserved no pity. The overall tone is one of despair, for the damned there is no hope. In the Purgatorio he sees souls in torment, but torments that will be eventually compassed, allowing the soul to reach eternal bliss. The tone here is, therefore, is hope. It is also in this section that Dante himself is given a physical lesson, on entering an angel carves seven Ps on his forhead. As he accends to each terrace to witness the atonements, an angel appears as he leaves and removes one of the Ps, so that when he leaves he is again unmarked. It has been suggested that the marking and removal of the Ps is a symbol that the unworthy parts of the poets nature have been removed making him fit to enter Heaven. A further aspect of the allegory comes into play with the start of the third section. In the Inferno and Purgatorio Dante's guide was the Roman Poet Virgil, a man Dante greatly admired, but his guide through Heaven was Beatrice, the woman he loved. Intellect can only get you as far as purgatory, true grace is achieved through love. For more detail I might recommend the Cliff or Monarch notes, available at most libraries.

Answer 3

Dante was creating a political satire poking fun at the lousy/crooked polititians of his day...even the Pope! So the theme really has nothing to do with death and dying and hell(although that is the vehicle he used to present his thoughts). It is about how power corrupts and how absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Answer 4

Cerberus guards the Planet Hollywood in the Third Circle.

Answer 5

i dont know but to guess,it may be
come and die!
thats the divine comedy!

Answer 6

yes... i read his "Inferno" and it's ideal not only for classroom but for spiritual analysis of human being...I sometime believe that it is not fiction but a real story written in creative narrative.