Please answer the following questions exactly. Please number each question you answer e.g. 1 – and your answer dont do it essay style but just answer the questions exactly only what they ask for thank you Canto I (1) 1) What is the “dark wood”? How does Dante describe it? 2) What does the line “full of sleep” could mean (line 11)? 3) Dante uses the word “path” twice, in line 3 and line 12. What does he refer to? What is this path? 4) Why can’t Dante leave the wood? What’s the significance that “three beasts” block his way? What do you think these beasts signify? Do they have symbolic meaning, do you think? 5) Light appears and disappears in this canto. Find the lines where “light” and “dark” appear then tell what do you think they symbolize? 6) What does Virgin tell Dante in lines 112- 126? Canto III (3) 1) How does the punishment of the cowards fit the vice? Try to identify several possibilities or levels for the contrapasso in this canto. 2) From among the cowardly fence-sitters, Dante singles out only the shade of one who made “the great refusal” (Inf. 3.60). Why does Dante refuse to name any of the shades in this particular region? 3) Look closely at the simile Dante uses to describe the movement of sinners towards Charon’s ferry (lines 112-120). How would you interpret it? 4) Why does Dante faint at the end of the Canto? What overwhelms him, in your opinion? Canto V (5) 1) Discuss the contrappasso in this canto. 2) Comment on Francesca’s narration of her love story with her brother-in-law, Paolo. She uses the word “love” several times. Is that love or lust? Why? What does Paolo do? How Dante-the-traveler and Dante-the-author’s position on Francesca’s story is different. Canto XXXIV (34) 1) As the last Canto of the Inferno opens, Virgil speaks for the first time in a long while. He speaks to urge Dante to have “fortitude.” What’s significant about this request? 2) Describe the general contrapasso for treacherous fraud. Why does it fit the sin? 3) How does Dante call Lucifer and what is the meaning of these names? 4) Reread the canto and locate the lines where he describes Lucifer. How does Dante describe it? 6) In what sense we can say that Lucifer is a parody of God? What type of binary oppositions that characterize God and Lucifer can you find in the canto? 7) Why do you think stelle–“stars”–is the last word of the Hell and of the other two parts of the Divine Comedy?
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