Last. Blog. Ever.

As I've said before, World Literature was by all means not one of my favorite classes but I did like learning some new stuff about the world around us. This is my last blog that I have to type ever in my career, unless I'm old and have no life so I decided to start a blog. This semester we learned about The Epic of Gilgamesh, Genesis 6-8, Chinese Literature, Ancient Persian Literature, Ancient Greek Literature, Ancient Roman Literature, Ancient Italian Literature, and English Literature were the eight topics that we studied in a time frame of 18 weeks. I think that my favorite topic would have to probably be the Ancient Italian Literature because we got to learn about the Inferno by Dante and the rings of Hell. That was most likely one of the funnest projects in this class.

The Inferno

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So this week we have been reading small parts of the Inferno. We have read Cantos I, Cantos III, and Cantos V and for the Cantos V we were split into two groups and had to write a story in poetic form about two different topics out of one story. These stories are a bit confusing but they were interesting to read. The poem that we had to write was about Francesca and how she was cheating on her husband, Giovanni, with his brother, Paolo. When Giovanni found out, he killed both his own wife and brother. So they both went to Hell because they hadn't confessed their sins yet. Francesca hadn't been to a church to to her confession so she had all of her sins built up inside her. What we wrote was that Giovanni had been suspicious about his wife and that she was sneaking around. So one night he went out and followed her and found out she was cheating, so his first reaction was to kill them both, and when that matter was done, he had no remorse for what had just happened. In the Cantos V there were also MINOS and that is what my picture is of.

The Rings of Hell

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The past few days we have been working on a presentation that involves the nine rings of Hell. Holly and I got assigned to Ring 8 which is called Fraud. The lower down that you go into the Rings of Hell, the worse it gets. Satan is in ring 9 which is called Treachery. The rings of Hell are Ring 1 Limbo, Ring 2 Lust, Ring 3 Gluttony, Ring 4 Greed, Ring 5 Anger, Ring 6 Heresy, Ring 7 Violence, Ring 8 Fraud and Ring 9 is Treachery. We did a power point on Google Docs called World Lit's Inferno Show. Ring 8 is all about being punished for sins that involve of course, Fraud. Both Ring 8 and 9 can be reached by descending off of a vast cliff. Ring 8 is also broken down into 10 smaller rings itself. They're called Bolgia's. Each one has its own punishments for depending on the crime that was committed. This was probably one of the more interesting activities that we did in class, it was interesting learning about all the Rings of Hell and what happens in each one of them.