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*CANTO 29 AND 30

*Thing

*Canto 29 – An Overview

*Dante is so overwhelmed by the evil that he just wants to stay and weep, but Virgil urges him on-they must finish their journey through Hell this day. Dante explains that he is lingering because he thinks he sees one of his kinsmen, but Virgil urges him to forget the man-he is here, and he is here justly, and he feels only anger at Dante (who explains that his kinsman is angry because his murder has not been avenged). Dante and Virgil go on to the Tenth (and last) Bolgia, which is full of people suffering from loathsome diseases such as leprosy and of the smell of rotting flesh. Here the counterfeiters, or falsifiers, of every kind suffer. Dante speaks to two Italians who were alchemists; they confess their systematic deception of those who believed they could turn other metals into gold because they knew so well how to counterfeit gold.

*Canto 30 – An Overview

*Still in the Tenth Bolgia, Dante sees two shades running among the others and biting them cruelly. One in Dante's own day impersonated a dead man and made a will favorable to the man's son, and himself. The other, according to the story in Ovid, was overwhelmed by a passion for her own father, and impersonated another woman in order to sleep with him. The only person Dante speaks to here is Master Adam, who lies helpless and swollen with dropsy, yearning for just one drop of water-but yearning even more to torment those who persuaded him to take up counterfeiting the currency of Florence. Master Adam tells Dante the names of those who lie silently burning in fever near him, and one of them strikes him. Master Adam strikes back, and each one taunts the other with his crimes, while Dante listens, fascinated. Then Virgil reproaches him, and he is filled with such shame that Virgil instantly forgives him, urging him to remember that Virgil is with him if he should ever again be tempted to listen, fascinated, to such quarreling.

*Who are the Sinners?

*Falsifiers*Liars*Counterfeits*Alchemists*Perjurers*Impersonators

*What is the nature of their sin?*They corrupt the society by their lies or

falsification for their own good.*They are a ‘disease’ to the society as they

trick people with lies that have evil consequences.

*Famous Faces

*Arezzo, Stricca, Niccolo, Caccia, Abbagliato, Capocchio, Albert of Siena*Bertran de Born, Geri del Bello, Gianni

Schicchi.

Sarah Palin ---(not that she is a liar or anything)

*Punishment

*They are all killed over and over again, even if they are dead. They are thrown into a pit and killed again but they still screaming with agony. *Affliction of every senses: By darkness,

stench, thirst, filth loathsome disease, and a shrieking din, run ravening through the pit, tear others to pieces.

*Stylistic Devices

*Metaphor: The moon is already under our feet means that the morning is coming and there is no time to stay. Death is waiting to pound some body. He compare the fighting between two men is like the way a knife scrapes fish scales. *Simile: Like two pan go against each other. Death sits

like a present on the marsh air: *Imagery: And when the rabid pair had passed from

sight, I turned to observe the other misbegotten spirits that lay about to left and right.This shows what dante sees and what he is experiences through imagery diction.

*Allegorical

*If you are a judge, judge with fairness and justice.*To deny one’s identity for personal gains

will get you in hell.*Truth and Justice prevails

*TROPOLOGICAL

* Thou shall not lie(Ten Commandments)* Thou shall not cheat (Ten

Commandments)* Love thy neighbor as thyself

*ONTOLOGICAL

*Humans coexist like animals. The survival of the fittest plays huge role here. Fitness doesn’t mean the most qualified. Those who cheap and trick others are also ‘fittest’ and get whatever they want.

*Thing

*References

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante%27s_Inferno#Eighth_Circle_.28Fraud.29

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontological* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropological* http://

www.novelguide.com/TheInferno/summaries/Canto30.html* http://

www.novelguide.com/TheInferno/summaries/Canto29.html* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZbiJkbVXVo* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPtN_hpid1U* https://apliterature-sasd.wikispaces.com/Bolgia+10+--+

Falsefiers* http://cursedchimera.bandcamp.com/album/8th-circle-below

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