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Allegorical Meanings Flashcards

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Canto 1: Dark Wood

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Darkness-absence of light (God’s love) Dante is 35 years old, begins evening of March 24th, March 25th: Annunciation (historical crucifixion) Dark Wood: not sin itself, but life lived in sin

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Canto 1: The Hill

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requires strength, work of putting one foot in front of the other, good life attainable by humankind under its own powers (free will, not divine grace)

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Canto 1: 3 Beasts

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Leopard
Lion
She-wolf

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Leopard

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gaudy fur

lust, envy, fraud

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Lion

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pride, violence

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She-wolf

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greed

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The Gates of Dis (iron wall)

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Hardened will, angels threaten them with Furies and Medusa, Virgil covers Dante’s eyes (self restraint cannot keep you from sin), angel comes & opens gates, he does not care about ppl in hell

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Virgil

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human reason

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