Friday, March 31, 2017
Post #19
Dante's concept of Hell came to the audience in an interesting way as it was told through the journey through Hell. Dante's Hell is full of various levels and areas. Different sins had its own distinguishable space. Each level kept the sinners of different crimes. As for pain and suffering, these emotions will always attract an audience. The level of intensity of these feelings allows everyone to relate and understand the feelings. Though pain hurts on different levels, it's still a feeling that can be attractive. On some subconscious level, we never really escape pain. So since it's inevitable, we run to it and it grabs the audiences attention. A quote from "Inferno", "they yearn for what they feel for" describes the thirst to read and hear about the negative emotion.
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I found it interesting in my first reading of Inferno that we were able to see Dante's actual physical journey through hell as well. And I do agree that pain and suffering will always attract an audience, probably why we as a people enjoy violence in movies and are unable to turn away when we notice someone else being tormented or humiliated.
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