Most recent public comments by student Antonio D. Romero https://nowcomment.com/users/128368 https://nowcomment.com/documents/330016?scroll_to=2936537 https://nowcomment.com/documents/330016?scroll_to=2936537 Although all of the circles are just as punishing due to it being scaled to how bad the person was. I would want to be in the first circle, only for the fact that the punishment is the only non physical one. Fri, 21 Oct 2022 13:10:40 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/330016?scroll_to=2936507 https://nowcomment.com/documents/330016?scroll_to=2936507 For most of the poem Virgil is represented as an all knowing guide. However, once Dante and Virgil reach the 6th circle Virgil is just as knowledgeable as Dante Fri, 21 Oct 2022 13:08:10 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/330016?scroll_to=2926988 https://nowcomment.com/documents/330016?scroll_to=2926988 Dantes Inferno Discussion Antonio Romero South Plains College ENGL-2332 World Literature Ms. Escamilla October 14, 2022 In every journey with the main character navigating the unknown, a guide is there to lead the way for the protagonist. Virgil the guide for the story Dantes Inferno plays an especially important role for the main character Dante as he navigates the Inferno. The story starts with Dante being stopped by three beasts on his way to paradise. The guide, Virgil, then appears to guide Dante down through the inferno. When in the inferno, the story makes it clear that Dante would be lost or destroyed before he even reaches the first circle. “By failure to understand what point it was I had pass through, judge if I was perplexed.” (Lines 93-96) In Dantes Inferno, Virgil is symbolized as human reason. In the story Virgil is given a chance to leave but Dante cannot enter. Instead, Virgil stays to open the door for Dante, proving his loyalty and his righteousness. The Odyssey and Inferno while being different settings have a few comparisons. Both of the stories follow two men on a journey to a prized place. Odysseus goes on the journey by sailing in the intent of arriving at his homeland back to his wife, after fighting in the trojan war. Dante is on the journey to paradise but like Odysseus, Dante has to brave many conflicts. Through both of these characters’s journey they both gain help from a nonhuman being. In the odyssey the goddess Athena does what she can and manipulates events to help Odysseus. Also in Dante’s Inferno his guide Virgil who was once a human helps Dante navigate and reflect on himself throughout. With those two comparisons it should be a safe guess to assume that Odysseus and Dante are fundamental the same man but that couldn’t be further from the truth. Odysseus is a strong clever man that fought in the trojan war even devising a plan that would turn the tide of a never ending war. Dante however starts his story as a civil servant, essentially a politician. Dante is more of a political person instead of being a man of action like Odysseus Sat, 15 Oct 2022 00:04:52 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/328084?scroll_to=2921205 https://nowcomment.com/documents/328084?scroll_to=2921205 While I agree with your assesment on even though Medea lost just as much, she is content as long as Jason feels great pain. But she didn't kill her kids to hurt Jason completely but for their protection against the people of the kingdom looking for revenge against Medea for the assassination of the King and his daughter Fri, 07 Oct 2022 09:37:04 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/328084?scroll_to=2921204 https://nowcomment.com/documents/328084?scroll_to=2921204 Yes I believe that having children automatically opens you up to great hate but also great love. Jason had pushed Medea to the point of wanting Jason to feel the same type of sadness that he made her feel. Even though she went through with her plan and it had succeeded the way she wanted it to, Medea along the way has lost herself completely. Fri, 07 Oct 2022 09:29:10 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/328383?scroll_to=2920499 https://nowcomment.com/documents/328383?scroll_to=2920499 Medea Extra Credit Antonio Romero South Plains College ENGLISH-2332- World Literature Ms. Escamilla October 5, 2022 The term “mad woman” belongs to a group of women that when pushed to the edge repeatedly by their significant other and then finally being pushed over, become spiteful and dangerous. A prime example of this situation is captured in Euripides Medea. The play tells the story of Medea, portraying her mindset and actions after being betrayed by her Husband Jason. Medea learns that Jason has been having an affair with the Kings daughter and plans to marry her. After giving up everything and betraying her home just to be with Jason, Medea is destroyed by the news of him planning to leave her and their two boys. This revelation and the King exiling Medea in fear of her using her cleverness to plot revenge, finally push Medea into becoming a “mad woman.” Medea becomes overcome with revenge and hatches a plan to kill the King and his daughter. In fear that after she escape her enemies will kill her kids, Medea plans to kill her and Jasons kids believing that the only right way to kill them was their own mother doing it because it was out of love. The madness that Medea went through as result of a bad husband/significant other has echoed through pop culture even having the main theme of the story being made into the song “mad woman” by Taylor Swift. The lyrics of the song make it easy compared to Medea featuring lyrics such as “No one likes a mad woman You made her like that And you'll poke that bear 'til her claws come out And you find something to wrap your noose around And there's nothing' like a mad woman” These lyrics clearly resonate how Jason was to Medea. Pushing her with his infidelity and then finally pushing her over the edge when the King exiles her. Jason, trying to be rational, makes it clear that he had no idea how Medea got to the point of madness when it was Jason that made her like that. Euripedes, Medea, pg 756-790 The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Vols. A, B, & C. Author: Sarah Lawall, ed. Swift, (2022,7,23) Official lyric video by Taylor Swift “mad woman” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DP4q_1EgQQ Thu, 06 Oct 2022 11:40:57 -0400