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A 10 page essay that compares Dante's Inferno with Homer's Odyssey. The writer argues that analogous comparisons can be made between Dante's work and his illustrious predecessors. An examination the "Inferno" and Homer's "Odyssey" demonstrates how in both works the "journeys" that these works describe concern how the protagonist works out a relationship between himself and the divine, and, in so doing, is able to "come home" by arriving at his destination, paradise for Dante the Pilgrim and his home in Ithaca for Odysseus. No additional works cited.
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in Virgils "Aeneid," as well as Homers "Odyssey." In these epic poems, the hero journeys into the realm of the dead in order to ascertain some aspect his own destiny.
This is no less true for Dante in his "Divine Comedy," which draws on the legacy of the literary past, yet builds on what came before him to an
extraordinary degree, turning the concept of journeying into the underworld, a small part of previous works, into a complex and extensive spiritual allegory. Analogous comparisons can be made
between Dantes work and his illustrious predecessors, a debt that Dante himself acknowledged through his choice of the classical poet Virgil as a guide for his journey. An examination of
the first section of Dantes epic poem, the "Inferno" which describes Dantes descent into the underworld, and Homers "Odyssey" demonstrates how in both works the "journeys" that these works describe
concern how the protagonist works out a relationship between himself and the divine, and, in so doing, is able to "come home" by arriving at his destination, paradise for Dante
the Pilgrim and his home in Ithaca for Odysseus. The principal theme of Dantes epic poem, as a whole, is that Dantes journey is an allegory for the spiritual
journey of humanity through life. Dantes epic charts a journey of the soul, from the depths of degradation to the radiance of redemption, as Virgil leads him through the three
sections of the work, from "Inferno," to "Purgatory," and finally to "Paradiso," where his beloved Beatrice awaits him. Dantes journey can be viewed as allegorical to his own life, in
the manner in which he moved from the "Hell" of defeat and exile to the "purgatory" of acceptance, and finally to the "paradise" represented by artistic creation and fulfillment. The
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