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An 8 page paper discussing and comparing Christopher Marlowe’s “Dr. Faustus” with Dante’s “Inferno.” Dante predated Marlowe by three centuries, writing “The Divine Comedy” long before the Reformation and the rise of Protestantism that Marlowe followed. The religious teachings of the times in which these authors lived are reflected in the concept of each of the nature of hell. Dante’s character descends into it to discover its hierarchical spirals; Mephistophilis reveals to Faustus that he has not left hell at all in order to visit Faustus, that they are living in it. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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File: CC6_KShellFaustDante.rtf
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wrote The Divine Comedy between the years of 1307 and 1321, relatively close to the beginning of the Renaissance but certainly too early to be included in it. Dantes
Italy was the seat of the church, which in the Medieval period was the church. Christopher Marlowe would write his play "The Tragicall History of D. Faustus" fully three
centuries later, publishing it in 1616. The purpose here is to discuss these two works and their authors in light of how social
and religious differences between their eras colored the authors own views of hell. The Medieval Church The seat of the church was Rome,
of course, and the only Christian church that existed was that which we know today as being the Catholic one. Missions, monasteries and churches dotted all of the landscape
of the known world, and for most of the population, belonging to the church was not an option. In outlying regions, it controlled virtually every aspect of individuals lives
through the leadership of the local clergy. Questioning was not forbidden, but it certainly was discouraged. Dantes spiral down into the various levels of hell places heretics far
down into the depths, and the church of Dantes medieval Italy labeled any direct and persistent questioning soul as heretical. The church of
Dantes time taught that there were various stages of hell, that there was a holding place for virtuous pagans (Limbo) and another for church members with unfinished business (Purgatory).
All others, however, would be punished for all eternity according to the sins they had committed in life. Dantes education in this catechism is evident in his arrangement of
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