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This 7 page paper consider the first part of Dante's 'Divine Comedy'. It looks to the symbolism in the first two cantos of inferno, interrupting and explaining their presentations and meanings. These include the aspects of the landscape, of light and dark, personalities, the appearance of Virgil and the first appearance of Beatrice. The MLA bibliography cites 4 sources.
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desired. IT is not uncommon for many literary works to operate on more than one level, there is that which is immediately apparent, and then the symbolism or allegories that
may be present when the work is considered in more depth. In works regarding region or spiritual matters it ids very common to find symbolism, and this is very true
of Dantes Divine Comedy, it is so full of symbolism that we will concentrate on only the first two cantos of the first book Inferno. To put this work
into contexts so that the symbolism may be appreciated we must remember that this was written a long time ago, when religious beliefs were different to the way in which
they are interpreted toady. In looking at the poems by Dante we need to understand that he portrayed his beliefs exactly as he saw them. Not the physical conditions and
the geography of the land, but by way of the condition of the soul in the after life (Scartazzini 21). In looking for symbolism in the beginning we must also
remember the symbolism as a whole, the book is in three separate sections, Inferno is the first, followed by Purgatory and Paradise. The make up of the work is symbolic
in terms of structure, there is a single canto as an introduction, and then each of the three books is made up of thirty three cantos, this gives us a
total of 100 cantos. This number is seen, at this time, by the Christian Church as a number representing perfection (Norton PG). The way this is calculated is that 100
is 10 squared, and 10 is also the squared number of 3 plus 1, this is significant as it is the holy trinity of 3, plus the 1 which is
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