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Assignment 1: Discussion Assignment

By Saturday, February 20, 2016, respond to the Discussion Assignment. Post your response to the Discussion Area. Your answer should:

· Provide detailed evidence, including excerpts from the literary text.

· Demonstrate a clear understanding of the themes, genres, cultures, time periods, and texts that are this week's focus.

· Apply APA style guidelines to the source material

Discussion Question

· Part A: One of the major themes in The Inferno is the relationship between God and humanity, particularly as it relates to sin and God’s justice. Let’s explore what the scholarship has to say about this topic. First, review the lecture on evaluating sources and locating peer-reviewed articles. Then, go to the SUO library and in a scholarly journal find a credible, full-text, peer-reviewed article about The Inferno. Write a citation for the article that is formatted in APA style and then annotate the article. Part B: Now, review The Inferno, and locate a specific passage that you feel illustrates one key aspect of the relationship between God and humanity. Provide your interpretation of this relationship. How does Dante imagine the relationship between God and humanity? What are the differences between your interpretation and the article you located? What are the similarities?

· Put together in one document the texts that you developed in Part A and B. Include a copy of the peer-reviewed article that you read. Remember that your claims in all parts of the assignment should be substantiated by excerpts from appropriate sources (scholarly research and/or literary texts). Quotes, paraphrase, and summary used in the assignment should be arranged according to APA rules of style, and in-text and reference citations should be provided, also formatted in APA style. Quoted material should not exceed 25% of the post. Submit the final document in the Discussion Area.

HERE IS MY LECTURE READINGS: PLEASE INCORPORATE THIS IN MY ASSIGNMENT. When quoting it just put Southuniversity online lecture 2016. EXAMPLE: ( South university online lecture, 2016). If you paraphrase it ( South University Online lecture, 20016, para…)

The Inferno, the first part of the Divine Comedy, uses allegory to mount a strong critique of corruption in the Roman Catholic Church, the most powerful economic and political institution in medieval Western Europe. The Inferno also condemns secular figures who did not abide by Christian principles. These attacks are stated allegorically in order to provide Dante "cover," allowing him to accuse powerful people of sin and corruption without pointing a finger directly at them, which would have been very risky!

When you read The Inferno, which means “hell” in Italian, you will immediately notice that it employs medieval Western European ideas about the cosmos to map the story’s narrative structure and communicate its moral lessons. For example, hell is located inside the earth and it is depicted as a concentrically organized hierarchy in which inhabitants’ punishment matches their sin, at least in terms of how sin was defined by medieval Roman Catholic cultures. Altogether there are nine circles of hell, each one contained within the next larger circle (like Russian nesting dolls, one around the other). The larger circles are populated by minor sinners. As the circles become smaller, they are occupied by characters who are guilty of progressively worse sins. Satan resides in the smallest circle at the center of The Inferno.

Most of hell’s circles represent one general type of sin. For instance, people who committed violent sins are condemned to the Seventh Circle. Some circles of hell are divided into rings or pitted with bolgias [ditches] that correspond to specific subcategories of sin. Thus, the Seventh Circle contains three rings, each one associated with a specific kind of violent sin: 1) violence against people and property, 2) violence against self (suicide), and 3) violence against God. Similarly, the Eighth Circle, dedicated to fraud and treachery, has ten bolgias, each one associated with a subcategory of fraud or treachery.

In addition to this “architecture,” as it is sometimes called, The Inferno is also structured by poetic conventions. For instance, different verses, which, in The Inferno, are called cantos, focus on different sinners.

As in The Divine Comedy, the figure of Dante in The Inferno represents humankind. The function of his character and his journey through hell is to warn readers of the consequences of sin.

Another important character in The Inferno is Virgil. In the text, Virgil is the “shade” or spirit of the “real life” Virgil, a Roman author who wrote epic poetry just a few generations before the birth of Jesus Christ. During the Middle Ages, Western European artists and writers thought that some of Virgil’s works predicted the coming of Christ and the emergence of Christianity. Because “real life” Virgil was not a Christian, in The Inferno, his “shade” is condemned to a section of hell called limbo, which is described in Canto 1, but his suffering is limited since he never had an opportunity to become Christian. His role in The Inferno is to guide the character of Dante through hell, for the purpose of enabling Dante, who symbolizes humankind, to recognize and reject sin.

As a whole, The Inferno’s tone is evangelical and didactic because the poem aims to persuade readers to live according to traditional Christian morals.

Assignment 1: Discussion Assignment

Saturday, February 20, 2016

, respond to the

Discussion Assignment

. Post your response to

the

Discussion Area

. Your answer should:

Provide detailed evidence, including excerpts from the literary text.

Demonstrate a cle

ar understanding of the themes, genres, cultures, time periods, and texts that

are this week's focus.

Apply APA style guidelines to the source material

Discussion Question

Part A

: One of the major themes in

The Inferno

is the relationship between God and

humanity,

particularly as it relates to sin and God’s justice. Let’s explore what the scholarship has to say

about this topic. First, review the lecture on evaluating sources and locating peer

reviewed

articles. Then, go to the SUO library and in a schola

rly journal find a credible, full

text, peer

reviewed article about

The Inferno

. Write a citation for the article that is formatted in APA style

and then annotate the article.

Part B

: Now, review

The Inferno

, and locate a specific passage that you feel

illustrates one key

aspect of the relationship between God and humanity. Provide your interpretation of this

relationship. How does Dante imagine the relationship between God and humanity? What are the

differences between your interpretation and the artic

le you located? What are the similarities?

Put together in one document the texts that you developed in

Part A

and

. Include a copy of the

peer

reviewed article that you read. Remember that your claims in all parts of the assignment

should be substantiate

d by excerpts from appropriate sources (scholarly research and/or literary

texts). Quotes, paraphrase, and summary used in the assignment should be arranged according

to APA rules of style, and in

text and reference citations should be provided, also forma

tted in

APA style. Quoted material should not exceed 25% of the post. Submit the final document in

the

Discussion Area

HERE IS MY LECTURE READINGS

: PLEASE INCORPORATE THIS IN MY ASSIGNMENT. When

quoting it just put Southuniversity on

line lecture 2016. E

XAMPLE: (

South university online lecture,

2016).

you

paraphrase

it ( South University Online lecture, 20016, para

…

)

The Inferno

, the first part of the

Divine Comedy

, uses allegory to mount a strong critique of corruption

in the Roman Catholic Church, the most powerful economic and political institution in medieval

Wes

tern Europe.

The Inferno

also condemns secular figures who did not abide by Christian

principles. These attacks are stated allegorically in order to provide Dante "cover," allowing him to

accuse powerful people of sin and corruption without pointing a fing

er directly at them, which would

have been very risky!

When you read

The Inferno

, which means “hell” in Italian, you will immediately notice that it employs

medieval Western European ideas about the cosmos to map the story’s narrative structure and

communi

cate its moral lessons. For example, hell is located inside the earth and it is depicted as a

concentrically organized hierarchy in which inhabitants’ punishment matches their sin, at least in

terms of how sin was defined by medieval Roman Catholic culture

s. Altogether there are nine circles

of hell, each one contained within the next larger circle (like Russian nesting dolls, one around the

other). The larger circles are populated by minor sinners. As the circles become smaller, they are

occupied by charac

ters who are guilty of progressively worse sins. Satan resides in the smallest circle

at the center of

The Inferno

Most of hell’s circles represent one general type of sin. For instance, people who committed violent