Dante's Inferno- Bolgia 10 and the Central Pit

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The Divine Comedy: Dante's Inferno Translated by John Ciardi

Things in Common with Video and Dante's Inferno

• Last Resort
• Sense of hopelessness
• The calm before the storm.

Half-buried remains of mankind = Titans and Giants half-buried in the Central Pit

Symbol of our everyday society

Stress-Fight or flight

These are the results

The Setting- Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion

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Additional Characters

• Falsifiers:
• Annika in The Art of Racing In The Rain

• Giants and Titans of the Central Pit
• Megatron: The leader of the Decepticons in Hasbro's Movie Series "Transformers"

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The Central Pit

• Not, punished. Here to represent ALL of us

" ...for where the instrument of... pure brute power and evil will [is added], mankind is powerless against its own restraint." (Alighieri 31.54-57)

Numerous Giants and Titans

Nimrod, Ephialtes, and Antaeus

To Virgil’s persuasion, Antaeus takes them in his palm and lowers them to the final circle of Hell.

Dante's Inferno- Bolgia 10 and the Central Pit

• These sinners have sinned so wrongfully.
• Virgil's priorities

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The Falsifiers

The Alchemists, the Evil Impersonators, and Counterfeiters, and the Falsifiers of Words

Evil Impersonators

Giannni Schicchi and Myrrha

Master Adam and Sinon the Greek :

"Perhaps offended...[Sinon] punched him in the...belly-it thundered like a drum- and he [Master Adam] retorted with a blow to the face..." (Alighieri 30.99-105)

Bolgia Ten- The Falsifiers

• The souls are subject to corruptions, just as they have corrupted society in life.
• Afflictions of every sense,

including darkness, diseases, thirst,

filth, and a shrieking din

Griffolino D’Arezzo and Capocchio