2007-01-30 10:22:41 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I believe that it is showing how even though you may seem pious on the out side, if you do not have the heart to go along with it you will end up in only one place. Hope this helps.
2007-01-30 10:32:36 · answer #1 · answered by Arthur N 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dante is just showing his opinion on what Hell would be like. Its not that hard to do, I just got an assignment in Language Arts today that asks me to create my own version of Hell, using Dante's Inferno as a guide. And my version is different, i found that the worshipers of the Devil deserved Circle 9 more so than the traitors, who come in at 8. The thing about it though is that his levels could apply even today, long after his death. Though we may disagree with the order that Dante placed the sinners, we can each say that most of those sins deserve a place in Hell.
2007-01-30 18:33:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
At the time he wrote it, it was a political statement about the lack of genuine religous conviction or actions by those figures.
2007-01-30 18:36:49 · answer #3 · answered by arch_uriel 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
His image of Mohammed tearing himself in half is a very relevant symbol of the rift of Sunni Shia friction left by him for not naming a successor. With Judas at the center with Brutus for betrayal only room for one true god. Jesus!
2007-01-30 18:35:22 · answer #4 · answered by Billy Dee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most probably the hypocrisy and irony in that someone with such religious superiority sins regardless of what they themselves preach to people who were probably more virtuous than them.
2007-01-30 19:30:30 · answer #5 · answered by Lolly 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just showing what's REALLY going to happen to all ya'll religous people.
2007-01-30 18:25:55 · answer #6 · answered by Vivian D 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋