Inferno Summary - PDF

# Inferno Summary ## Circle 1: Limbo * **People:** Unbaptized but intelligent people. * **Punisher:** None, but there is endless sighing and hopelessness. * **Relevant Characters:** Homer, Horace, Ovid, Lucan ## Circle 2: Lust * **People:** People with uncontrolled desires (sexual). * **Pu...

# Inferno Summary ## Circle 1: Limbo * **People:** Unbaptized but intelligent people. * **Punisher:** None, but there is endless sighing and hopelessness. * **Relevant Characters:** Homer, Horace, Ovid, Lucan ## Circle 2: Lust * **People:** People with uncontrolled desires (sexual). * **Punisher:** Minos * **Reason for Punishment:** They couldn't control their desires, thus can't control the wind that blows them as well. * **Relevant Characters:** Francesca da Ramini & Paolo ## Circle 8: Malebolge * **Has 10 Bolgias** ### Bolgia 1: Seducers * **People:** Prostitutes, etc. * **Punisher:** Malatesta (with a long tail) * **Contrapasso:** Marching endlessly whipped by demons # Dante's Inferno ## Writer * **Dante The Poet (Dante Alighieri)** * Lived in Florence * One of the most significant Italian poets of Medieval Europe * True love was Beatrice Portinari, but ended up marrying Gemma Donati ## Parts 1. Inferno 2. Purgatorio 3. Paradiso ## Theme * Shows the danger of wealth, how it can lead to suffering * Luxury is a deception that you don't realize ## Argumentative Essay * Argumentation involves defending a position/viewpoint, and presenting logic & persuasion. * Usually has a claim, convinces the audience to agree, addresses counterarguments. ## Essay "Map" 1. **Introduction** * Hook (shows why the topic matters) * Context * Thesis Statement (with counter argument) 2. **Body** * Claims (1, 2, 3, etc.) * Counterarguments & Refutation 3. **Conclusion** * Restatement of Thesis Statement * Call to action * Inspiration # LaSalle Note ## Dante and the 2 Sides of Italian Politics * **GUELPH (Dante's Side)** * **Fully supports the Pope** * **GHIBELLINE** * **Supports the Roman Emperor** **Note:** The Ghibelline side was unsuccessful in winning the Battle of Montaperti, thus Dante was exiled. # *Inferno* Outline 1. **Circle 1:** Limbo 2. **Circle 2:** Lust 3. **Circle 8 (Bolgia 1):** Seducers # *The Necklace* & _We Wear the Mask_ ## *The Necklace* * **Author:** Guy de Maupassant * **Genre:** French Naturalist * **Summary:** Mathilde is unsatisfied and plays a fake life of being rich, sacrificing money leading her to debt for 10 years. She discovers the necklace she borrowed was fake, therefore she's debt for nothing. ## *We Wear the Mask* * **Author:** Paul Laurence Dunbar * **Date Published:** 1895 * **Summary:** The poem discusses the social and psychological realities of being an African-American in a white society. It uses persona to represent the African American community as a whole. ## *We Wear the Mask* Poem Notes * **Each line has 8 syllables** * **Stanzas are 5, 4, 6** * **Rhyme pattern is mostly AABBA** ## *The Necklace* Note * **Events:** Birth, Death, * **Themes:** * Prostitiution * Marriage * Life # Key Terms * **Allegory:** A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. * **Contrapasso:** A form of poetic justice in which the punishment inflicted upon a sinner in hell is fittingly related to the sin itself * **Parallelism:** The use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc. * **Misplaced Modifier:** A modifier that is placed in a sentence so that it appears to modify a word or phrase that it was not intended to modify. * **Dangling Modifier:** A modifying phrase or clause that does not logically modify a noun or pronoun in the sentence. * **Faulty Coordination:** A grammatical error that occurs when two or more ideas of unequal importance are joined together incorrectly with a coordinating conjunction (and, but, or). * **Faulty Subordination:** Occurs when a less important idea is placed in the main clause and a more important idea is placed in a dependent clause (subordinate clause).