1. In Canto V of Inferno, those who are indulged in lust are sent to the second circle of hell, including Semiramis, Dido, Cleopatra, Helen, Achilles, Paris, Tristan, Francesca and Paolo. Choose ONE of the sinners lost in lust. Explain why Dante puts him/her into hell. I choose Helen as my sample to explain it. Helen is the most beautiful woman in the world. So she was really Greek, not Trojan. Paris, a prince of
Troy, he was asked to choose who was the prettiest goddess. Aphrodite offered him the most beautiful woman in the world in marriage: Helen of Sparta.
Paris chose Aphrodite as his answer because of her offer. Helen of
Sparta was better known as Helen of Troy. When the Trojan prince, Paris came to court of Sparta, Menelaüs entertained him for a week, before leaving for
Crete to attend his grandfather’s funeral. During Menelaüs’ absence, the goddess made Helen fall in love with
Paris. Helen ran off to Troy with
Paris and married him. This resulted in a war between the Greeks and Trojans that would last for ten years. Helen’s elopement course the great war. She was not faithful to her marriage and her decision made tens of thousands innocent people engulfed in fear even lost their lifes.2. Why is Dante moved to tears after Francesca’s description of love and why does he finally fall “as a dead body falls” after her personal account of her intimate relationship with Paolo?
Because Francesca married to Paolo’s brother and that made it impossible to be together. Sometimes selfish is a really major way to show love. They had to tell themselves can not break the rule, though it was so difficult to do it. The firm love between Francesca and Paolo make Dante remain his memory of he lover his lover from afar. Certainly, he felt sorry about this wholehearted lover in the hell.How sorrowful Dante was! 3. From Dante’s presentation of Francesca and Paolo, we are encouraged to consider the place of moral responsibility in depictions of love, sex, and violence in our own day. We can certainly discuss music, television, movies, and advertising (as well as literature) in these terms. Who is more (or less) responsible and therefore accountable for unacceptable attitudes and behavior in society: the creators and vehicles of such messages or the consumers and audiences?No matter how dangerous or nasty the work is, if it can earn money there would be lots of people willing to do it. “Apple News Paper” is a generally know example for Taiwanese. The owner of this company obvious tells us that he only want to make a paper which the most readers will buy and that reflects the quality of reader. But in the most situations, the most readers always are not in high class.Still, I think audiences have due to take charge of the mass media’s quality is fallen step by step. The vehicles’ ethical journalism his job are really worth to people to call in question. There are too many vehicle can not refuse the irresistible profit, let alone being neutral.