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Title: Dante Alligheiri's Divine Comedy
Description: His jouney to:Hell,Purgatory,Heaven????


`bEaTr!x` - May 28, 2006 11:28 AM (GMT)
*I just wanna know your opinion's about this story.. I became very curious kase about this. When I was in H.S. pa our english teacher discussed this to us. And told us almost everything about this story. And at the end of the discussion I was asking her If she believes in this story.But she said it was up to me. But I think she believes in it /swt she just doesnt want to answer my question because maybe she thinks that we might think she is weird. Don't know if you all have read or heard the story kase /swt so i'll post some informations about it.... ^_^

Hope that you'll read this long story wehehehe... coz you might find it interesting kahit long yun story :D it explains almost everything kase :woot:

Quick summary:
Dante Pilgrim has not been a good boy. His dead love Beatrice asks the Virgin Mary to help him see the error of his ways. Mary accepts and Dante is sent on a three-day trip through Hell, and on up Mount Purgatory on the other side of the world, and finally to Heaven in the sky. He is spiritually lost at the beginning of the story, so he needs guides to help him along the path. His first guide, through Hell and Purgatory is Virgil (author of the Aeneid). They encounter many interesting sinners on the way. Dante learns to hate sin. His second guide is Beatrice, the woman he adored while she lived. His final guide is Saint Bernard (namesake of the loyal dog), who takes him to see God.

*Our English teacher told us pala that on Dante's journey daw 1st sa inferno..There are 9circles in hell daw. the circles are parang stages from circle 1 to 9 pababa ng pababa sa hell..Virgil guides Dante through the nine circles of Hell. The circles are concentric, each new one representing further and further evil, culminating in the center of the earth, where Satan is held, bound. Each circle's sin is punished in an appropriately revengeful way to fit the crime. The nine circles are:



•First Circle (Limbo). Here reside the unbaptized and the virtuous pagans, who, though not sinful, did not accept Christ. They are not punished in an active sense, but rather grieve only their separation from God, without hope of reconciliation. Limbo includes fields and a castle, the dwelling place of virtuous souls of wisdom, including Virgil himself. In the castle Dante meets the poets Homer, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan. (Canto IV)

All of the condemned sinners are judged by Minos, who sentences each soul to one of the lower eight circles. These are structured according to the classical (Aristotelian) conception of virtue and vice, so that they are grouped into the sins of incontinence, violence, and fraud (which for many commentators are represented by the leopard, lion, and she-wolf3). The sins of incontinence — weakness in controlling one's desires and natural urges — are the mildest among them, and, correspondingly, appear first:

•Second Circle. Those overcome by lust are punished in this circle.[sa mga menyak to /wah] These souls are blown about to and fro by a violent storm, without hope of rest. Francesca da Rimini tells Dante how she and her husband's brother Paolo committed adultery and died a violent death at the hands of her husband. (Canto V)

•Third Circle. Cerberus guards the gluttons, forced to lie in the mud under continual cold rain and hail. Dante converses with a Florentine contemporary identified as Ciacco ("Hog" - probably a nickname) regarding strife in Florence and the fate of prominent Florentines. (Canto VI)

•Fourth Circle. Those whose concern for material goods deviated from the desired mean are punished in this circle /e5. They include the avaricious or miserly, who hoarded possessions, and the prodigal, who squandered them. Guarded by Plutus, each group pushes a great weight against the heavy weight of the other group. After the weights crash together the process starts over again. (Canto VII)

•Fifth Circle. In the swamp-like water of the river Styx, the wrathful fight each other on the surface, and the sullen or slothful lie gurgling beneath the water. Phlegyas reluctantly transports Dante and Virgil across the Styx in his skiff. On the way they are accosted by Filippo Argenti, a Black Guelph from a prominent family. (Cantos VII and VIII)

The lower parts of hell are contained within the walls of the city of Dis, which is itself surrounded by the Styx River. Punished within Dis are active (rather than passive) sins. The walls of Dis are guarded by fallen angels. Virgil is unable to convince them to let Dante and him enter. An angel sent from Heaven secures entry for them. (Cantos VIII and IX)

•Sixth Circle. Heretics, trapped in flaming tombs (Cantos X and XI).

•Seventh Circle. The violent (Cantos XII through XVII). These are divided into three rings:
*Outer ring: The violent against people and property, in a river of boiling blood (Canto XII).
*Middle ring: The violent against themselves—suicides —turned into thorny black trees. Uniquely amongst the dead, they will not be bodily resurrected after the final judgment. Where others will continue to occupy Hell (and Heaven) in corporeal (rather than merely spiritual) form, suicides—because they alienated themselves from their own bodies—spend eternity in the body of a tree, their own corpses hanging from the limbs. Also punished in this circle are profligates, chased perpetually through the trees by ferocious dogs (Canto XIII). They are held here with the suicides because, during Dante's time, one's property was seen as an extension of self. Hence, doing violence to one's property is kin to suicide.
*Inner ring: The violent against God, nature, and art—blasphemers, sodomites, and usurers—in a desert of flaming sand where fire rains from the sky (Cantos XIV through XVII).

The last two circles of Hell punish sins of malice, or sins of the fraud; that is, sins involving conscious fraud or treachery. The circles can be reached only by descending a vast cliff into the "pit" of Hell:

•Eighth Circle. The fraudulent—those guilty of deliberate, knowing evil—are located in a circle named Malebolge (Cantos XVIII through XXX). This is divided into ten ditches:
o Ditch 1: Panderers and seducers, walking forever in opposite directions, whipped by demons (Canto XVIII).
o Ditch 2: Flatterers, steeped in human excrement (Canto XVIII).
o Ditch 3: Those who committed simony, placed head-first in holes, flames burning on the soles of their feet (Canto XIX).
o Ditch 4: Sorcerers and false prophets, their heads put on their bodies backward, so they can only see what is behind them (Canto XX).
o Ditch 5: Corrupt politicians (barrators), trapped in a lake of boiling pitch (Cantos XXI and XXII).
o Ditch 6: Hypocrites, made to wear brightly painted lead cloaks (Canto XXIII).
o Ditch 7: Thieves, chased by venomous snakes and who, after being bitten by the venomous snakes, turn into snakes themselves and chase the other thieves in turn (Cantos XXIV and XXV).
o Ditch 8: Fraudulent advisors, trapped in flames. Dante includes Ulysses and Diomedes here, for their role in the Trojan War. (Cantos XXVI and XXVII).
o Ditch 9: Sowers of discord, whose bodies are ripped apart, then healed, only to be attacked again. The first person that Dante sees in this chasm is Muhammad (Cantos XXVIII and XXIX).
o Ditch 10: Falsifiers, i.e. alchemists, counterfeiters, perjurers, and impersonators. Each group is punished by being afflicted with a different type of disease (Cantos XXIX and XXX).

The passage to the ninth circle contains classical and Biblical giants (Canto 31). Dante and Virgil are lowered into the pit by Antaeus.

•Nineth Circle. Traitors, distinguished from the "merely" fraudulent in that their acts involve betraying someone in a special relationship to the betrayer, are frozen in a lake of ice known as Cocytus (Cantos XXXII through XXXIV). Each group of traitors is encased in ice to a different height, ranging from only the waist down to complete immersion. The circle is divided into four concentric zones:
o Zone 1 (Caïna): Traitors to their kindred (Canto XXXII). Named for Cain.
o Zone 2 (Antenora): Traitors to political entities, such as party, city, or country (Cantos XXXII and XXXIII), such as Count Ugolino. Named for Antenor of Troy, who, according to medieval tradition, betrayed his city to the Greeks.
o Zone 3 (Ptolomæa): Traitors to their guests (Canto XXXIII). Named (probably) for Ptolemy, captain of Jericho, who invited Simon the High Priest and his sons to a banquet and there killed them. One of its inhabitants, Friar Alberigo, explains that sometimes a soul falls here before the time that Atropos (the Fate who cuts the thread of life) should send it. Their bodies on Earth are immediately possessed by a fiend.
o Zone 4 (Judecca): Traitors to their lords and benefactors (Canto XXXIV). This is the harshest section of Hell, containing Satan. Satan is depicted with three faces, each having a mouth that chews a prominent traitor. Satan is waist deep in ice, and beats his six wings as if trying to escape, but the icy wind that emanates only further ensures his imprisonment (as well as that of the others in the ring). The sinners in the mouths of Satan are Brutus and Cassius, who were involved in the assassination of Julius Caesar (an act which, to Dante, represented the destruction of a unified Italy), and Judas Iscariot (the namesake of this zone) for betraying Jesus. Judas is in the center mouth, and alone among the three has his head inserted into the mouth.

The two poets escape by climbing the ragged fur of Lucifer, passing through the center of the earth, emerging in the southern hemisphere just before dawn on Easter Sunday beneath a sky studded with stars. Our teacher even showed a picture of SATAN /omg it was horrible, horrendous :faint: He was eating all the people that was in circle 9. waaa katakot tsktstsk


Purgatorio

Having survived the depths of Hell, Dante and Virgil ascend out of the undergloom, to the Mountain of Purgatory on the far side of the world (in Dante's time, it was believed that Hell existed underneath Jerusalem). The initial parts of the book describe the shore of Purgatory (Cantos I and II) and its slopes, where those who were excommunicated, those too lazy to repent until shortly before death, and those who suffered violent deaths await their turn to ascend the mountain (Cantos III through VI). Finally, there is a valley housing European rulers and others whose devotion to public and private duties hampered their faith (Cantos VII and VIII). From this valley Dante is carried (while asleep) up to the gates of Purgatory proper (Canto IX).

From there, Virgil guides Dante Pilgrim through the seven terraces of Purgatory. These correspond to the seven deadly sins, each terrace causing the purging of a particular sin in an appropriate manner:

•First Terrace: Pride /e5, by carrying a heavy weight on their backs. The wearer is unable to stand up straight (Cantos X through XII).
•Second Terrace: Envy, by having one's eyes sewn shut, and wearing clothing that makes the soul indistinguishable from the ground (Cantos XIII through XV).
•Third Terrace: Wrath, by walking around in acrid smoke (Cantos XV through XVII).
•Fourth Terrace: Sloth, by continually running (Cantos XVIII and XIX).
•Fifth Terrace: Avarice, by lying face-down on the ground (Cantos XIX through XXI).
•Sixth Terrace: Gluttony, by abstaining from any food or drink (Cantos XXII through XXIV).
•Seventh Terrace: Lust, by burning in an immense wall of flames (Cantos XXV through XXVII).

The ascension of terraces culminates at the summit, which is the Garden of Eden (Cantos XXVIII through XXXIII). Virgil, as a pagan, is a permanent denizen of Limbo, the first circle of Hell; thus, he may not enter Paradise. Beatrice then becomes the second guide (accompanied by an extravagant procession), as well as a redemptrix and mediatrix. Beatrice is modeled after Beatrice Portinari, a woman Dante loved in childhood, and who died in 1290, leaving him grief-stricken. She is exemplified in La Vita Nuova ("The New Life") and is further beautified.



Paradiso/Heaven

After an initial ascension (Canto I), Beatrice guides Dante Pilgrim through the nine spheres of Heaven. These are concentric and spherical, similar to Aristotelian and Ptolemaic cosmology. The addition of a moral dimension means that a soul that has reached Paradise stops at the level applicable to it. The nine spheres are:

* First Sphere: The moon - those who abandoned their vows (Cantos II through V).
* Second Sphere: Mercury - those who did good out of a desire for fame (Cantos V through VII).
* Third Sphere: Venus - those who did good out of love (Cantos VIII and IX).
* Fourth Sphere: The sun - souls of the wise (Cantos X through XIV).
* Fifth Sphere: Mars - those who fought for Christianity (Cantos XIV through XVIII).
* Sixth Sphere: Jupiter - those who personified justice (Cantos XVIII through XX).
* Seventh Sphere: Saturn - the contemplative (Cantos XXI and XXII).
* Eighth Sphere: The fixed stars - the blessed (Cantos XXII through XXVII). Here, Dante is tested on faith by Saint Peter, hope by Saint James, and love by Saint John the Evangelist.
* Ninth Sphere: The Primum Mobile ("Prime Mover") - angels (Cantos XXVII through XXIX).

Dante and Beatrice gaze upon the highest Heaven; from Gustave Doré's illustrations to the Divine Comedy Paradiso Canto 31
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Dante and Beatrice gaze upon the highest Heaven; from Gustave Doré's illustrations to the Divine Comedy Paradiso Canto 31

Beatrice leaves Dante with Saint Bernard who prays to Mary on behalf of Dante and Dante is allowed to see both Jesus and Mary. From here, Dante ascends to a substance beyond physical existence, called the Empyrean Heaven (Cantos XXX through XXXIII). Here he comes face-to-face with God Himself, and is granted understanding of the Divine and of human nature.



*So... Do you believe in Purgatory ba? and the circles in hell?? and do you believe in this story?Any comments?? My teacher told us too that this story was written by dante din /omg he was reincarnated "DAW" by God to tell the people about his journey para daw magbago ang mga tao and matakot :blink: so do you believe in all of this? sorry if masyado mahaba.. Sana binabasa nyo lahat at naintindihan nyo whew! :smash:

taste_of_ink - May 28, 2006 11:44 AM (GMT)
sadly... i only read Inferno... hehehe...

its good... considering that it was from a 12th century point of view... :D kaya medyo research habang nagbabasa...

3 faces of Satan = Judas, Mark Anthony, Brutus ( poor Julius )

was quite sadistic... really :D

/gawi

No Ordinary Love - May 28, 2006 12:30 PM (GMT)
i want to see it as fiction... cnu b nkakaalam kung totoo nga yan.. cguro descritpion lang ng kung anu yun pinaniniwalaan na mangyayari sa tao... after death and so on...

pero maganda no? hehe napasabi ako na ah ganun pla yun ahaha... joke i knew my own faith... naniniwala me sa pinaniniwalaan ko.. hehe :smash:

Corzair - May 28, 2006 12:38 PM (GMT)
Wow. So the Dante in the story is a real life person? :faint: By the way can you show us a link of the 3 faces of Satan? I am really curious about what it looks like..

`bEaTr!x` - May 28, 2006 12:53 PM (GMT)
@corzair search mo nalang sa net.. yun kase pix ni satan na pinakita samin ng teacher ko eh asakanya.. di ko alam san galing yun e /wah

@no ordinary love nakakaconfuse nga e :blink: kase na reincarnate daw sya. kaya nya ginawa yun.. so napaisip ako kung totoo ba yung mga circles, purgatory and the 3faces of satan /swt

*to all who read my 1st post tnx sa pagbasa.. mahaba sya pero worth it naman talagang mapapaisip ka /heh

No Ordinary Love - May 28, 2006 12:59 PM (GMT)
@bea

tlga? hehe... reincarnate... haha... bkit ka naconfuse? sorry nalang cya... lol lakas faith ko haha...

taste_of_ink - May 28, 2006 01:02 PM (GMT)
hehehe... ang galing nga ni Dante...

" Dante and Shakespear divided the world between them... there is no third "

ahahahaha...

nobody really knows if its is fictitous... but i believe Dante... ahahaha... i'll believe anyone ^_^

on my way to Purgatoryo... :smash:

`bEaTr!x` - May 28, 2006 01:08 PM (GMT)
@no ordinary love wala lang... if the story was really real talaga... alam ko may magiisip na baka di malakas faith ko kay God. pero di sa ganun.. napapaisip lang ako. kaya nga pinost ko topic na yan para lang makita/mabasa ko din yun own opinion's nyo /heh

No Ordinary Love - May 28, 2006 01:12 PM (GMT)
yep... naintindhan po kita hehe... khit me napaicip na ah gnun pla yun.. nung ng pplay kami about jan... hehe wala lang... may natutunan naman tyo e.. un mahalaga... ty bea...

`Janelle - May 28, 2006 01:17 PM (GMT)
@ bea
grabe haba ng post mo sister!
very persuasuve ung teacher mo gurl ha! i think naniniwala cya... and base sa mga cnabi nya sa inyo... she said enough to answer ur question.. ^_^

as for me.. hindi aq naniniwala. kc ang tao may kanya kanyang opinion sa mga bagay bagay ^_^ malalaman na lang natin un kapag ded na tau :rofl:

e2 seryoso na... naalala ko tuloy nung nagbabasa aq ng The Diary of Anne Frank. Na touch aq sa isa sa mga nakalagay dun. Na yun nga, hanggang ngaun pinagtatalunan pa and after life . . . im not saying na reincarnationm chuva.. pero ung kung anu mangyayari sa tao pag wala na cya. Magulo un at hindi cya proven, at wlang kakayahan ang tao para patunayan kung anu ang tama at mali pagdating sa bagay na un.

^_^

Jack - May 28, 2006 01:18 PM (GMT)
Uhm yan ba ung ginawang movie ni Robin Williams???? errrr I think ung movie na un ni Robin Williams was based from that Dante's novel.. You should watch it. :) pero im not so sure.. eka search ko.. :p

taste_of_ink - May 28, 2006 01:19 PM (GMT)
amm... cnong merong Purgatoryo??

baka pedeng makahiram... /sob

@Jack

what dreams may come true?? un ba un??

namatay siya dun e... tapos wandering soul siya dahil sa family niya... or... ung asawa yata ung namatay dun e?? im confused...

`bEaTr!x` - May 28, 2006 01:24 PM (GMT)
@corzair i can't find the scan of your request /swt and i don't want to see it again /swt it's really scary gosh~ /wah pero due to your request.. i have some pix here /swt hindi eto yun request mo pero kasama to sa story /heh i don't believe this story kaya lang ako nagpost neto para malaman ko opinion's nyo ^_^ nakakaconfuse lang talaga kase hehehe... /heh

Dante's guide rebuffs Malacoda and his fiends between ditches five and six in the 8th circle of Inferno, Canto 21.
Satan is trapped in the frozen central zone in Canto 34.
Dante and Beatrice gaze upon the highest Heaven; from Gustave Doré's illustrations to the Divine Comedy Paradiso Canto 31 /swt
the gate of hell daw /swt

@janelle yah i know na she believes in it :smash: obvious

tenggy - May 28, 2006 01:27 PM (GMT)
QUOTE (Corzair @ May 28 2006, 08:38 PM)
Wow. So the Dante in the story is a real life person? :faint: By the way can you show us a link of the 3 faces of Satan? I am really curious about what it looks like..

@^
the "Dante" in the story is supposedly dante alighieri himself. i don't think there were sketches of the 3 faces of Satan though o_o;

we studied Inferno last year in school, and it was introduced to us as fiction.. i think. >.> i have great respect for dante alighieri (the correct sp of the surname btw XD) and his Divine Comedy, especially Inferno kasi ang ganda ng ideas and pagkakasulat (simple and straightforward yet poetic), but i don't believe that it's true. then again, even if i see it with my own eyes, i won't really believe in hell.. ever. >_>;

and correction lang..
beatrice didn't want dante to be punished, he wanted dante to be SAVED.. in the start of the story, it said that dante was lost in a dark wood because he got lost in his path in life, meaning talagang bad siya nung buhay siya, so he's getting punished. mary told st. lucia about Dante, who in turn told beatrice about him. since lover ni dante si beatrice, shempre gusto niyang ma-save si dante. so beatrice pleaded Virgil (and not mary) to act as dante's guide in his journey through hell.

Jack - May 28, 2006 01:29 PM (GMT)
@taste of ink
uhm un ata nga... or ung Dreamcatcher.. nalito tuloy ako sa dalawa.. >_<

@topic
It is an intense novel. :)

taste_of_ink - May 28, 2006 01:37 PM (GMT)
@Jack

prang what dreams may come true un e... /sob

@tenggy

Dante was bad?? i thought he was just stuck in the middle of a feud between politicians during his time??

tenggy - May 28, 2006 01:38 PM (GMT)
@taste
err i meant dante in the story, not dante the author. it started off saying agad na lumihis siya ng landas. pero never naman talaga sinabi sa story kung anong sin yung ginawa niya.

`bEaTr!x` - May 28, 2006 01:38 PM (GMT)
@tenggy ah i see.. ^_^ tnx for the correction sis~ ^_^ yun kase alam ko pero tnx talaga ulit wehehehe :giggle:

@jack was this story shown na? /hmm

taste_of_ink - May 28, 2006 01:43 PM (GMT)
@tenggy

ahh... sowe... ung Divine Comedy reflection sa life nya un dba?? First love niya si Beatrice kaya siya ung symbol of Divine Love... sa totoong buhay iba ung napangasawa niya... kasi ang gulo ng buhay nung mga tao nung time niya diba?? puro war... tapos si Virgil... pagka-alam ko Roman Poet din siya whom Dante " idolizes " kaya siya naman ung voice of human reason... tama ba??

/sob

tenggy - May 28, 2006 01:48 PM (GMT)
i think you're referring to "what dreams may come".. umm kung yun yon, matagal na siyang pinalabas.. it received a lot of criticism >.>;

*add lang*

@taste
yeah, you're right. ummm kaya lang ang alam ko si beatrice she symbolizes spiritual love.. divine love is mary ata. not too sure lang. well a lot of it was based on dante's life, and several distinct characters (even yung mga pinaglalagay niya sa hell hehe.. meron pa atang pope dun if i remember right XD) were taken from his time, but generally it's all fiction. kung baga para siyang the Da Vinci Code, fiction constructed around supposed "facts".

`Janelle - May 28, 2006 02:10 PM (GMT)
@ bea
ahaha XD
nga pla about the movie.. un nga ba ung kay robin williams?

@ tenggy
yan po ba ung kay robin williams?

about the movie..
uu somewhat familiar nga... kc nung na ded c robin dun may nag tour sa kanya... kaso sa paintings cla nag tour... tapos hanggang sa nagpakamatay nga ung wife nya na napunta sa hell.. tpos ung he has to undergo some stages of hell pra makita ung asawa nya... hanggang sa finally nga makita nya... kaso nde naman cya naalala..

i think dats it? ung stages ng hell... eh di concept lang??? o.O

Jack - May 28, 2006 02:17 PM (GMT)
@taste of ink
okay that was what dreams may come true nga. Robin williams was not even in Dreamcatcher.. its a different novel pala by stephen king. silly meeh. :smash:

@bea
its not actually the novel itself. pero may similarity lang. :)
ayan baka maconfuse ka.. ~_~

@three faces of satan
wala bang sketches sa tatlong ito? sana mas maganda kung meron noh. I think it is somewhat the perversion of the Holy Trinity. Like what Dante put it, Satan is as ugly as he was once beautiful (former reincarnation of an angel)

`bEaTr!x` - May 28, 2006 02:22 PM (GMT)
^ate jack tnx sa info ^_^ ah i see... i saw the a sketch of the 3faces of satan.. color yellow, red and black pa nga eating people alive it was really horrendous :faint: sorry di ko tuloy mashare yun sketch na yun kase pinatingin lang samin ng teacher ko yun when i was in HS pa

Corzair - May 28, 2006 03:07 PM (GMT)
@Beatrix
Salamat po sa pix :lolwave: Baka naman yung sketch na yun yung teacher nyo lang nag drawing /heh Anyways thanks po ulit sa effort sa paghahanap and sa pictures. /no1

@tenggy
I see.. Thanks for the info! Maybe I'll do some research on him or read his novel if I have time..

taste_of_ink - May 28, 2006 05:14 PM (GMT)
3 faces of Satan... Judas, Cassius, Brutus

Cassius pala d pala Mark Anthony... wupsi... churi

wala po akong makitang images e... meron pero isang muka lang... may lumabas nga si Bush e... ^_^

" Judas Iscariot is in the central mouth: Brutus and Cassius in the mouths of either side "

dubbed as treacherous to their masters...

Judas - Jesus

Brutus - friend of Caesar ( dearest i must say ), yet betrayed him

Cassius - conspirator against Caesar

poor Roman guys... :smash:

`bEaTr!x` - May 29, 2006 12:54 AM (GMT)
@corzair nah she can't draw /wah she's not good in that /swt lolz... wak mo na din tignan nakakatakot kase yun /wah

dharma - May 29, 2006 03:04 AM (GMT)
1. the divine comedy is fiction /swt

siyempre d maiiwasan na may halong konting facts or ideas that is common sa atin kasi as a writer, you write about what you know, observed, and the likes. it's like that "da vinci code" hype now, truth or fiction daw ba? :faint:

2. all characters in the story are symbolistic

3. it's a prose poem.

4. all settings are concepts of heaven, hell and purgatory based on the religious teachings of the time.

the renaissance period was the time when people made man the measurement of all things (hence humanism) so most works are centered on the secularism of religious concepts.

other books that carry inspiration from the "Divine Comedy" are:

"Ang Paboritong Libro ni Hudas" - Bob Ong
"Memnoch the Devil" - Anne Rice

taste_of_ink - May 29, 2006 04:41 AM (GMT)
@^

QUOTE
2. all characters in the story are symbolistic


ahihi... /no1




Jack - May 29, 2006 05:03 AM (GMT)
@dharma
about #2
More like Political Symbols for meeh. :)


-SpiritRewind- - May 29, 2006 09:29 AM (GMT)
haba naman...

natawa ako d2 eh.

QUOTE
•Second Circle. Those overcome by lust are punished in this circle.[sa mga menyak to wah.gif] These souls are blown about to and fro by a violent storm, without hope of rest. Francesca da Rimini tells Dante how she and her husband's brother Paolo committed adultery and died a violent death at the hands of her husband. (Canto V)



hmm fictional lang sana yan ayoko mapunta sa Hell Circle 2. /gg

himichan - May 29, 2006 10:16 AM (GMT)
Pero may hope pa para makapunta sa purgatory XD

hmmm the 7 deadly sins

/wah

Sweet Revenge - May 29, 2006 01:34 PM (GMT)
^

you're right..


I'm wondering.. tingin ko sa Visual Media dapat to e.. pero about faith naman ang pinag uusapan kaya ok na sya dito. /no1

--

Literature. I remember the my sr. days.. /ho


Q:dba yung asawa ni Dante yung gumawa ng novel? /hmm

`bEaTr!x` - May 29, 2006 03:57 PM (GMT)
^ our teacher told us when i was still in HS pa.. na dante was the one who wrote the novel :huh: gulo nga e.. nareincarnate daw sya para isulat yun novel na yun para malaman ng mga tao kung pano un inferno, purgatory and heaven para daw magchange yun bad people /wah that's why i made this topic coz it's quite confusing :wacko:

- k a r l e n e ! - - May 29, 2006 07:45 PM (GMT)
This divine comedy by Dante Alighieri is a masterpiece in literature. I think it's a rather creative way of describing hell, purgatory, and paradise. A view of these three places is something that can greatly affect us. In that, most of us here are catholics and these subjects are not new to us. It relates to our faith and the life that we live. Nonetheless, it is still fiction. But we are given ideas and points of view on these matters that can help us expand our knowledge which is the important part. It is not there to dictate to our opinions but rather to open our minds and to add a helpful viewpoint for us to aid our interpretations.

No Ordinary Love - May 30, 2006 03:35 AM (GMT)
^ ryt ryt... yep very creative description... tma ka masterpiece...

alala ko bwisit... ng test kami about jan... wat the ang layu ng mga tanong... kinabisado ko panaman ung mga pinuntahan... aral na aral kami mga clasmate ko tpos lol na bwisit kami...

`bEaTr!x` - May 30, 2006 04:46 AM (GMT)
@ate leng tnx for saying something about it ;)

@no ordinary love hehehe.... hope you passed ^_^

No Ordinary Love - May 30, 2006 05:09 AM (GMT)
to bea... fortunately... kaso lang mababa... :faint:

topic... mga hndi pa nbbsa maganda yan basahin... un lang po...

tenggy - May 30, 2006 08:49 AM (GMT)
QUOTE (`bEaTr!x` @ May 29 2006, 11:57 PM)
^ our teacher told us when i was still in HS pa.. na dante was the one who wrote the novel :huh: gulo nga e.. nareincarnate daw sya para isulat yun novel na yun para malaman ng mga tao kung pano un inferno, purgatory and heaven para daw magchange yun bad people /wah that's why i made this topic coz it's quite confusing :wacko:

@bea
weird, but our teacher led us to a different idea.. >.<

he simply said that he wrote it as pure fiction.. well, pure fiction mixed with his opinions and criticism about society and politics during his time.. it was like a vessel for his ideas.

but anyway i'm not sure rin, this was taught to us early last schoolyear pa o_o;

@no ordinary love
hahah i agree, maganda nga siya ^__^ well actually nababasa ko palang inferno, but it's really nice (here i go again XD).. chaka simple lang yung pagkakasulat.

i like the inferno.. it's one of my all-time faves and indeed a must-read :happydance:

wildarms - May 30, 2006 11:59 AM (GMT)
hmmmmmmmmm

naniniwala yata ako?lolz kinda..

well not really, after i read the whole thing. siguro ginawa nya lng para idescribe ung imaginations nya about those 3..pero ung snabing reincarnate xa, ah hindi nah

wahhh i really enjoy reading it..more pics plz?? :D

pero wish ko lng.........

SANA TOTOO YAN :D i wanna see satan,lucifer,jesus,those burning places PERSONALLY..

yah yah i really wanna see the whole thing /sob

sana may movie n ganyan...

@tenggy
wehehee inferno din ung pnakagus2 ko :D

god...i wanna see it asap nyahahaha :D

tenggy - May 30, 2006 01:21 PM (GMT)
QUOTE (wildarms 3:16 @ May 30 2006, 07:59 PM)

pero wish ko lng.........

SANA TOTOO YAN :D i wanna see satan,lucifer,jesus,those burning places PERSONALLY..

yah yah i really wanna see the whole thing /sob

god...i wanna see it asap nyahahaha :D

nako bat may Jesus dyan? i don't think he's in hell, is he? XD

really.. o_o.. errr good luck reaching the last level of hell. uy, mahirap ata yan! :p




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