Dante Journal: Cantos 11-17
Circle
7: The Violent
Answer one question. Be specific, and quote from the text.
- Contrast DTC/ DTA treatment of either the suicides or homosexuals with his treatment of the usurers. Quote from the text to illustrate how the presentation of the character is more complex than first appears, and speculate about why.
- Discuss DTA's use of contrepasso in two characters/punishments from different cantos. Quote and explain the punishments.
- In Canto 6 (The heretics) we saw Phlegyas and the gorgons as iconographic characters. Discuss some of the icons (mythical characters) that inhabit the seventh circle. Explain their offices (quote) and explain why you think DTA placed them there.