For the second essay, you must choose one of the Grimm Brothers’ Fairy Tales from
https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimmtales.html (already chosen below). Come up with a theory that focuses on
theme, tone, symbol, or style, to prove your theory right. 5 paragraghs.
This essay is ANALYTICAL. IT IS NOT A SUMMARY. Don’t retell the story; assume your reader has read it.
Your essay should have the following components:
Your essay must have these components: (1) an introduction, (2) body, (3) conclusion, (4) thesis statement,
(5) good development, (6) topic sentences, and (7) transitions. You must cite your main source (primary
source), incorporate and cite 2 secondary sources from the library databases, and adhere to MLA style
formatting.

  • YOU MUST DO RESEARCH to aid you in writing this assignment, and you must use proper MLA
    documentation that accurately credits your sources.
    -For this assignment, a secondary source is one that discusses or analyzes your chosen story. Many
    academic journals contain articles that discuss short stories. You must locate your secondary sources from
    the library databases (such as Gale Literary Databases, Academic Search Complete, Literature Resource
    Center, Gale Virtual Reference Library).
    Secondary sources such as Shmoop, Cliff’s Notes, SparkNotes, enotes.com, bookrags.com,
    123helpme.com, Wiki anything, and exampleessays.com ARE UNACCEPTABLE. Your secondary source
    must come from an academic journal or published book.
    -Primary Source: The piece of literature in the anthology textbook you are analyzing is your primary source.
    -Secondary Sources: The literary criticism found in the Literary Reference Center in GALILEO is the
    secondary source. You may use more than two secondary sources. 2 secondary sources is the minimum
    required for this assignment.
  • Use MLA FORMAT
  • You must use quotations from both the literature selection you are analyzing AND from at least 2 of your 3
    secondary sources (minimum). Use correct in-text formatting. Remember that quotations must connect to
    your words and cannot stand alone in the essay. Use the quotation sandwich format to achieve this.
    Rapunzel
    Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
    https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm012.html
    Use these articles as a source to support the theory.
    https://search.proquest.com/docview/2305791631?accountid=11245
    https://journal.unnes.ac.id/nju/index.php/LC/article/view/14943/8433

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.

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 Studies4(8), 487.

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

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