The Inferno · Character
Dante
Poet whose Divine Comedy inspires the book's structure and themes.
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First appearance: epigraph
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In VIII: Swedenborg: Mentioned in comparison to Swedenborg's depiction of hell and the narrator's vision of oven doors. Later, in XIII: The Deliverer: His hell is compared to Swedenborg's hell, suggesting a common…
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This excerpt is the dramatic climax because it reveals the narrator’s psychological peak of self-identificatio…
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