Name: Garcia, Rowell S.

Subject: World literature

Course/Yr&Sec: BSCriminology 3-1 Prof. T. QUIAMBAO

SEMI-FINAL COVERAGE

ASSIGNMENT: Story analysis of Divine Comedy

 Divine Comedy

Setting Characters Plot Theme

Dante - A thirty- Introduction - Dante has been

It takes the The main theme of
five-year-old man, losing his way. He needs to tour
reader through The Divine Comedy is
spiritually lost and Hell so he can get back on the
the nine circles the spiritual journey
wandering away righteous path.
of Hell, the of man through life.
from the True Way Conflict - Having survived Hell,
seven terraces of In this journey he
— the path of Dante comes face to face with his
Purgatory and learns about the
righteousness and first real conflict: he has
the nine spheres nature of sin and its
of God. nature of committed the sin of pride
of Paradise. consequences. And
sin. Complication - Virgil disappears.
comes to abhor it
Beatrice scolds Dante. Dante
Virgil - A "shade" after understanding
hangs his head.
residing in the its nature and how it
Suspense - Dante ascends
Limbo section of corrupts the soul and
through Paradise to the Eighth
Hell, also known as draws man away
Heaven of the Fixed Stars.
the first circle. from God.
Denouement - Dante answers all
Virgil is a poet of
three inquisitors to their
antiquity, much
satisfaction and is allowed into
admired by Dante,
the Primum Mobile. He learns
and the perfect
angelology and ascends into the
guide for Dante's
Empyrean to see the Celestial
journey.
Rose.
Beatrice - The Conclusion - St. Bernard replaces
inspiration for Beatrice and prays to the Virgin
Dante's work. She Mary to God on Dante's behalf.
entreats Virgil to While he prays, so does Dante.
save Dante. He sees the Holy Trinity, then is
granted the vision of God himself.