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This 6 page paper discusses the significance of reason (logos) presented in Dante's Inferno. A close reading of Circle 5-7, Canto VII is utilized to illustrate reason's function. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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that seems to set mankind above the other animals. Therefore, a rational animal is able to seek redemption, and thus secure for himself a spiritual legacy. This use of logos
is exampled in Blakes Divine Comedy, and Dantes Inferno. Dante implies that all have sinned in one way or another by his use
of the generic we, so that the reader might imagine him/herself a traveler with Dante on this journey. Firstly, he gets right to the point by placing nearly all
of those political figures from his estranged homeland in his version of Hell. There, in Hell, those politicians are forced to endure punishments befitting the crime. And, he determines to
make his tale slightly prophetic in nature as he sets it several years before his exile so as to make the events which did actually happen seem as if they
had been foretold. In fact, the voices of the damned foretell most of the upheaval which had already come to pass by the time Dante wrote his Inferno.
In Dantes Hell there are nine circles or levels which spiral downward, toward the worst of the lot. In fact, some of the worst punishments
go to those government officials who have accepted bribes, or religious leaders who had aspired to political power. According to Dante, those who were greedy and full of avarice in
life are sent to hell to live in circle 8. Canto 17-19 illustrate the various punishments that these particular individuals must endure because of their former sins.
There are three guides that aid Dante in his excursion. Of the three, Virgil, Beatrice, and St. Bernard, it is Virgil that seems to represent the characteristic
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