Sunday, April 7, 2019
Dantes Blog
Love is unpowerful in the Inferno. However, it is even so a strong force in Dante's epic. Dante makes a journey through eternal hell because of how much love he undoubtedly has for Beatrice. Beatrice is Dante’s beloved who is presently in heaven and cherishes him enormously. She voluntarily left heaven because of the love she has for Dante. As Dante goes through hell, he is continually motivated to prolong his frightening journey by some poetic form of unconditional love, whether for Beatrice, Virgil, or God. “Beatrice am I, who thy good speed beseech;Love that first moved me from the blissful place
Whither I'd fain return, now moves my speech”Even in the grand entrance to everlasting hell it carefully specifies that hell was intentionally created by God, which he adequately described it as "the power, and the unsearchable/high wisdom, and the primal love supernal," God's is the original love and is in large part the superior force behind hell and the entire plot of Dante's poem. While Dante has multiple forms of love throughout the poem such as a love of wealth and power.Which ultimately drives many souls to knowingly commit multiple sins. Some sinners who gave into excessive lust. “Love, that so soon takes hold in the gentle breast, Took this lad with the lovely body they tore From me; the way of it leaves me still distress.” Dante sees Francesca da Rimini, who fell in love with her husband's younger brother, Paolo and was intentionally killed by her husband. The sinners follow lust and desire, rather than genuine love that Dante and Beatrice posses. Also in Dante's hell represent a prominent figure of Greek mythology Myrrha loved her father excessively and in the inappropriate way. Which hell is also filled with those who did not love their own families or nations enough. Many of the sinners pursued an unpleasant love or desire instead of the one love that, for Dante, matters most: the love of God. By contrast, Dante's love for Beatrice is virtuous, because it steers him closer to God's love, rather than further away from it.
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Tiffany,
ReplyDeleteAlthough you had some great quotes (I had used some of the same), however I do feel as though the theme of love is a powerful one, rather than unpowerful as your opening statement suggests. As you mentioned, there is a significant level of love that Beatrice has for Dante, so much that she leaves heaven to as for assistance to help Dante get through hell. Even the love that Dante has for God develops further and becomes stronger through the epic, proving that love for the "high wisdom", referred to as God, is as always an insanely strong connection, and one that is made even stronger through faith.
Considering your understanding of love of complex and multi-faced do to the many types and levels addressed in the epic, in which way do you connotate it? Also, do you believe that Francesca was in love or lust? An important question that even I find myself considering when reading Dante.
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