18. Mrs. Dalloway: (pg 86) “He could reason; he could read, Dante for example, quite easily (‘Septimus do put down your book,’ said Rezia, gently shutting the Inferno,)…that he could not feel”:
In this quotation, Woolf references Dante’s poem, The Divine Comedy. The Divine Comedy is a three part story which details Dante’s travels through the nine circles of hell. Inferno is the first part of the story; it’s about how Dante attempts to find God in his life while those in Hell work to stop him from finding the true path. Woolf uses irony to reflect Septimus’ character. Woolf creates a character, Septimus, who is living in hell; although the world around him is beautiful, he is emotionless, unhappy, and interacts with dead people. Many times, he finds himself facing hell on a daily basis.
“Divine Comedy.” Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia. 23 August 2009. 29 September 2009. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Comedy.
“Inferno.” The World of Dante. University of Virginia Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Humanities. 23 August 2009. 29 September 2009. http://www.worldofdante.org/inferno1.html.
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Yes! This is taking the primary source material of Woolf's and Dante's and coming to a conclusion -- nice work
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