Theory Analysis

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Final Paper Outline Assignment:
You will be required to write an outline detailing your final research project. This assignment is
as much about you being able to see how your argument will come together as it is about
showing me that you have and begun to develop your argument and can support it. The outline
format allows you to see where arguments are thin and where arguments might need trimming.
I. INTRODUCTION: You will be required to write an introduction that provides a brief
contextualization of your project by introducing the relevant issues, the history of the
issue, and you position on the issue.
a. Relevant information to introduce reader to the topic and the issues at hand.
b. You will be required to provide your thesis.
c. You will be required to provide a purpose for your essay as well as a justification
for your essay. The justification must be more than, “There is not much written on
this.”
II. “LITERATURE REVIEW” You will be required to provide a general overview of the
literature review. This means that you will group your readings into themes, explain
what themes you will be addressing in your essay (while providing citations for these
ideas), and then explaining why this theoretical theme is useful for analyzing your
research object.
a. It is useful to limit this to only a few themes, it will be impossible to address
everything that there is to say about your topic.
b. Group the articles that address a certain theme and explain how they talk to each
other or against each other.
III. METHOD: Next you will be required to explain your method. This means that you
will need to explain the specifics of your approach to gathering data.
a. How did you get your information?
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i. When? Who? How? Where?
b. Then you need to explain how this method addresses the theoretical concerns you
outlined in the brief overview of the literature. Tell me how this method actually
gets at the analysis you want to conduct.
c. ETHICAL CONCERNS? You might want to provide a section detailing your
group’s approach to the ethics of this project. How do you get to write about this
topic? By what means are you able to write about this? How does your research
give back to the community that you are researching?
IV. MAIN POINTS: you will be required to provide evidence for your claims supported
by credible sources.
a. Explain your object and the claim that follows.
b. Provide your claim, backed by theory, and the evidence.
c. Explain what your interpretation of all this is.
V. CONCLUSION: Summarize and point to implications by concluding with some
potential implications of this research.
a. What does it all mean?
b. Why does it matter?
c. What good does this do for the larger society?
d. Does this contribute to theory?
Format: This outline must be a formal outline, double spaced, 12pt. Times New Roman font,
and written in a formal academic voice. This is a draft of your final paper, so while you may
make changes to the final draft, attempt to lay out all your arguments here so that you can get
feedback. Since this assignment will also be in APA, you will need a cover and a reference page
for your citations. You may use section headers if that helps you to imagine how this all comes
together.

Sample Solution

Sample solution

Dante Alighieri played a critical role in the literature world through his poem Divine Comedy that was written in the 14th century. The poem contains Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The Inferno is a description of the nine circles of torment that are found on the earth. It depicts the realms of the people that have gone against the spiritual values and who, instead, have chosen bestial appetite, violence, or fraud and malice. The nine circles of hell are limbo, lust, gluttony, greed and wrath. Others are heresy, violence, fraud, and treachery. The purpose of this paper is to examine the Dante’s Inferno in the perspective of its portrayal of God’s image and the justification of hell. 

In this epic poem, God is portrayed as a super being guilty of multiple weaknesses including being egotistic, unjust, and hypocritical. Dante, in this poem, depicts God as being more human than divine by challenging God’s omnipotence. Additionally, the manner in which Dante describes Hell is in full contradiction to the morals of God as written in the Bible. When god arranges Hell to flatter Himself, He commits egotism, a sin that is common among human beings (Cheney, 2016). The weakness is depicted in Limbo and on the Gate of Hell where, for instance, God sends those who do not worship Him to Hell. This implies that failure to worship Him is a sin.


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God is also depicted as lacking justice in His actions thus removing the godly image. The injustice is portrayed by the manner in which the sodomites and opportunists are treated. The opportunists are subjected to banner chasing in their lives after death followed by being stung by insects and maggots. They are known to having done neither good nor bad during their lifetimes and, therefore, justice could have demanded that they be granted a neutral punishment having lived a neutral life. The sodomites are also punished unfairly by God when Brunetto Lattini is condemned to hell despite being a good leader (Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). While he commited sodomy, God chooses to ignore all the other good deeds that Brunetto did.

Finally, God is also portrayed as being hypocritical in His actions, a sin that further diminishes His godliness and makes Him more human. A case in point is when God condemns the sin of egotism and goes ahead to commit it repeatedly. Proverbs 29:23 states that “arrogance will bring your downfall, but if you are humble, you will be respected.” When Slattery condemns Dante’s human state as being weak, doubtful, and limited, he is proving God’s hypocrisy because He is also human (Verdicchio, 2015). The actions of God in Hell as portrayed by Dante are inconsistent with the Biblical literature. Both Dante and God are prone to making mistakes, something common among human beings thus making God more human.

To wrap it up, Dante portrays God is more human since He commits the same sins that humans commit: egotism, hypocrisy, and injustice. Hell is justified as being a destination for victims of the mistakes committed by God. The Hell is presented as being a totally different place as compared to what is written about it in the Bible. As a result, reading through the text gives an image of God who is prone to the very mistakes common to humans thus ripping Him off His lofty status of divine and, instead, making Him a mere human. Whether or not Dante did it intentionally is subject to debate but one thing is clear in the poem: the misconstrued notion of God is revealed to future generations.

 

References

Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). Dante’s inferno: Seven deadly sins in scientific publishing and how to avoid them. Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed, 267.

Cheney, L. D. G. (2016). Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno: A Comparative Study of Sandro Botticelli, Giovanni Stradano, and Federico Zuccaro. Cultural and Religious Studies, 4(8), 487.

Verdicchio, M. (2015). Irony and Desire in Dante’s” Inferno” 27. Italica, 285-297.

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