Inferno - Cantos 23-28 5th Period by Becky Salonish

Canto XXIV. 1-15

2024-02-21 14:36:32 UTC

What is the purpose of these lines? Why does Dante include a story about peasants? Is it a metaphor to the never ending cycle of peasantry and suffering?

(Canto XXIV. 142)

2024-02-21 14:37:48 UTC

at the end of canto 24, why does Vanni go from talking about his sin to talking about Florence soon getting destroyed?

Canto XXVI. 142-148

2024-02-21 14:38:12 UTC

Why does Dante constantly include prophecies about political factions and Florence?

Canto XXV 41-42

darbyconaway26_1 — 2024-02-21 14:38:22 UTC

Why does Dante give a signal to Virgil? How did Dante know that the six-legged worm was coming, did he already see it?

Canto XXIV Lines 140-149:

2024-02-21 14:38:27 UTC

What is the purpose of including this political prophesy? What does it mean?

Canto XXVII 58 - 63?

2024-02-21 14:39:07 UTC

What is Guido trying to say here? Does he not believe that Dante will make it back to Earth?

Canto XXIV.46-54

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Is Dante the Poet trying to reference the beginning of the comedy as they climb the mountain to God? Or is it simply just Dante explaining his struggles climbing out of the Bolgia?

Canto XXVI. Evil Counselors

2024-02-21 14:39:34 UTC

What exactly is an "evil counselor" and is there any reason other than the fact that Ulysses is Greek that he is in hell?

Canto XXV.2-3

2024-02-21 14:40:35 UTC

What does Dante mean when the guys makes "figs" at God? Does that gesture have a deeper biblical meaning?

Canto XXVI. 70-72

2024-02-21 14:41:28 UTC

Why would they scorn his manner of speaking because they are Greek?

Canto XXVIII. 28-31

darbyconaway26_1 — 2024-02-21 14:42:32 UTC

Is there a legitimate reason for Muhammad being in Hell? Is this just Dante the Poet's way of putting his personal perspective about Muhammad and Islam into the Cantos?

Canto XXIV. 46

2024-02-21 14:42:51 UTC

When Virgil tells Dante that there "is no time to tire," it makes me wonder how they have any concept of time in the depths of Hell. They left for hell on Good Friday and are supposed to leave by Easter, but is it my assumption that time neither works the same in Hell as it does on Earth nor do its inhabitants have any ability to be able to tell what time it is, as a part of their contrapassos. How do they know how much time they have?

(Canto XXVII. 110-113)

2024-02-21 14:43:17 UTC

Do Black Angels "examine" all people before they go to Heaven or Hell, or did he just come because St. Francis came to claim Guido?

Canto XXVIII

2024-02-21 14:44:09 UTC

Why does Mahomet try to warn Fra Docino, and is there a reason Dante the poet includes this in the canto?

Canto XXV line 14

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Why are the thieves so arrogant towards God compared to the other sins?

Canto XVIII. Final Couplet

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In the final couplet, Curio says something about "an eye for an eye," saying that it is the law of hell. But in the Bible, it specifically says that "an eye for an eye" should not be done for justice, so why is it in Hell?

Canto XXVII 80-114

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How is this a sin? The sinner is explaining their voyage but it is hard to find a definite sin within the last pages.

Canto XXIII.115-117

2024-02-21 14:47:46 UTC

Is having the Pharisee's punishment of being crucified and stepped on for eternity sacrilegious? Besides giving them the same consequence they committed to Jesus, it feels like a mockery of Jesus' sacrifice.

Canto XXVI prose

2024-02-21 14:47:47 UTC

It says that the evil counselors are hidden in great flames which are their own guilty consciences, but if they are guilty about it, wouldn't that mean they feel bad about it and want to repent?

XXVII page 1048

2024-02-21 14:49:58 UTC

What was Guido manipulated to do that got him here?

Canto XXV

2024-02-21 14:59:04 UTC

Does a thief flip them off in the first three lines?

Canto XXV -14-15

2024-02-21 15:03:43 UTC

Who is the man who fell from the Theban walls?