Canto 16
By Aria D.
Summary:
Dante and Virgil are in a new
place where he can hear the noise of cataract falling into the next circle.
Then there is three shades shout and come toward them. The three shades are
burn badly by the flames and Virgil tells Dante to be polite to these guys who
said they were from the same city as Dante. However, Dante is annoyed by these
three shades as he thought they were only some random people in the hell. The
three shades wheel and try to talk to them. To Dante’s surprise,
all of the three shades were very famous when they alive. They were Guido
Guerra(the grandson of the good Gualdrada), Tegghiaio Aldobrandi and Iacopo
Rusticucci, who were all brave and smart(they are all famous Guelph nobles and
party leaders from just before Dante's time). After knowing whom the shades are,
Dante changes his attitude and express his sorry for seeing them in the hell.
Then the three shades ask Dante whether courtesy and valor still in their city,
or they are just disappeared. Dante responds them that Florence is replaced by arrogance and excess. The
three shades then leave directly without saying bye to them. Dante and Virgil
then walk forward and see a waterfall. Virgil gird Dante by using a cord and
then Virgil throw the cord into the pit. Dante is confused by what Virgil is
doing. However, to Dante’s surprise, he sees a scary figure comes swimming
upward who is called Geryon. (He is the symbol of the Fraudulent and the
Malicious)
Sins：
In this circle
the sinner is the sodomy， which means people who don’t follow nature
order.
Punishment:
The punishment
of the sodomy is that they are forced to walk under the fiery rain forever.
Contrapasso:
For the
sodomies, they are considered not following the nature rules. In this way,
their punishment is suffering the fire drops form the sky.
Character:
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Guido Guerra
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He is an intelligent
and brave leader of the Guelphs.
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Gualdrada
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He is Guido
Guerra’s grandma, who is used as a model of
womanhood
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Tegghiaio
Aldobrandi
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He is famous
a Guelph noble who is a knight as well.
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Jacopo
Rusticucci
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He is a
Florentine knight and respected by a lot of people.
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Geryon
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It is a
monster a monster with human faces.
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2 High-order
questions:
1. Why did Dante feel annoyed when he
first saw the three shades?
2. Does Dante change his attitude to Virgil in
this canto? If yes, what attitude is he right now?
10 multiple choices:
1. who are the 3 shades?
a. Gualdrada,
Guido Guerra
and Tegghiaio
Aldobrandi
b. Jacopo
Rusticucci,Guido Guerra
and Tegghiaio
Aldobrandi
c. Jacopo
Rusticucci, Geryon and virgil.
2.which level
are they in?
a.7
b.8
c.9
3.how many
shades there are talking to Dante?
A. 2
B.3
C.4
4. how were
the shades behaved when they were alive?
A. good
B. bad
C. not good
and not bad
5.how was Florence at the time when the shades
alive?
a. arrogance and excess
b. courtesy and valor
c.arrogance and valor
6.how is Florence now?
a. arrogance and excess
b. courtesy and valor
c.arrogance and valor
7. what do
Virgil and Dante see after they left the three shades?
a. Mountain
b. Waterfall
c. Ocean
8. what does
Virgil grid on Dante?
a. cord
b. snake
c. clothes
9.what appear
after Virgil threw the cord into water?
a.treasure
b.monster
c God
10.what’s the
name of that monster?
a. Geryon
b.Medusa
c. Gualdrada
Resources from:
1. cliffsnotes http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/literature/divine-comedy-inferno/summary-analysis/canto-xvii.html
3. sparknotes
http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/inferno/
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