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A 4 page paper which examines how women are
presented in Dante’s “Divine Comedy” and then compares and contrasts that to “The
Scarlet Letter,” “Hamlet,” and the “Odyssey.” No additional sources cited.
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4 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAwmndnt.rtf
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of women. Even if they do not play a significant role in the works, their presence is important for many reasons. In Dantes "Divine Comedy," for example, we are presented
with a story of a man and for the most part there are not many women within the epic tale. With that in mind the following paper first compares and
contrasts the presence of women in Dantes tale with women in Nathaniel Hawthornes "The Scarlet Letter." The paper then compares and contrasts Dantes work with "Hamlet" and "Odyssey."
Dante and Hawthorne Bearing in mind the limited space herein, and the extensive nature of Dantes work, we focus on one particular Canto from Purgatorio. In Canto XXII we see
one individual whose spirit has been called to a particular place because of the tears of his woman. And he to me: "Thus speedily has led me/ To drink of
the sweet wormwood of these torments,/ My Nella with her overflowing tears;/ She with her prayers devout and with her sighs/ Has drawn me from the coast where one where
one awaits,/ And from the other circles set me free" (Dante Canto XXII). In this and the following lines we are presented with a good and perhaps pure and noble
woman who is generous and selfless: "So much more dear and pleasing is to God/ My little widow, whom so much I loved,/ As in good works she is the
more alone" (Dante Canto XXII). However, at the same time we are offered women such as "the unblushing womankind of Florence....displaying breast and paps...shameless women" (Dante Canto XXII). In
this we see the contrast to the mans widow, seeing loose women who have no idea of what awaits them. Through the two perspectives, limited as they are, we are
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