- Canto IX
Circle: Six
Sinners: The heretics
Sin: These souls did violence to God by denying him immortality
Punishment: Sinners here are placed in tombs forever that are incased by fire, on judgement day their tombs will be closed for eternity.
Summary: In this canto Dante and Virgil are stopped at the Gate of Dis. The Three Infernal Furies are introduced and call upon Medusa to come and turn Dante to stone because he is alive and they want him to go no further. Right at the moment of greatest anxiety a godly messenger rumbles down to the gate and with a touch and it opens for the poets. they then enter circle six where they discover a large cemetery filled with cries of pain and anguish. This is the eternal resting place of The Heretics.
"Outcasts of Heaven, you twice-loathsome crew,"/he cried uponWho is talking in the quote above?
that terrible sill of Hell,/"how does this insolence still live in you?/Why
do you set yourselves against that Throne/ whose Will none can deny, and which, times past,/has added to your pain for each rebellion?" (canto IX lines 88-93)
Who is he/she talking to and why?
Canto X
Circle: Six
Sinners/Key sinners: The heretics are the sinners, including Farinata Degli Uberti and Cavalcante Dei Cavalcanti
Sin: These sould did violence to God by denying him immortality
Punishment: Sinners here are placed in tombs forever that are incased by fire, on judgment day their tombs will be closed for eternity
Summary: Canto X continues the poets walk through circle six, the eternal cemetery for the Heretics. As they walk by a tomb, a soul inside a tomb, Uberti, recognizes the accent of Dante and appears, strating to talk with Dante about their differing political views. Soon another sould appears and asks why his son Guido is not with Dante, after mistakenly hearing Dante, the soul swoons back into his grave, thinking his son had died. Uberti than continues where he left off when he was interrupted, soon telling Dante the prophesy of Dante's banishment from Florence. Uberti than explains how the Heretics can see into the future but not the present. Dante waits for a moment pitying these souls slightly, but than quickly goes on his way.
Why does Cavalcanti think his son is dead?
Why can the Heretics see into the future but not the present?
5 comments:
Emily Wilson
Canto IX:
The Heavenly Messenger is speaking in the quote.
Skylor Gomes
Canto X
1. Dante hesitates when answering his question.
2.God denies them the sight of the past and present, yet still allows them some sight.
Taylor Tercek
The Heavenly Messenger is talking to the Rebellious Angels.
Maurell James canto IX
The heavenly messensger is speaking in the canto, and he is talking to the heretics or sinners who denied immortality. He is talking to theses people because they will not allow Dante and Virgil pass the the gate of Dis.
Tommy Rizt comment
1. The meesenger is speakign in the quote and hes talking to the rebellious angles.
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