Busy with trivial things... again. First of, I just recently read Dante Alighieri's Inferno. I don't understand much of what's in the book, it's translated by the way. The book talks of Dante's descent to hell with his guide Virgil. I'm amazed that what I thought of the book is. in a way, similar with the game I've played and the animated movie I've watched.
The game and anime, talks of Dante as a mighty warrior who went to ruin. He was killed, in the game, but when the reaper was about to collect his soul, he fought back and then out that his wife Beatrice was taken to hell by Lucifer. In the movie, I don't remember much but I think that's the same beginning. Point is, the main quest of Dante, for both, was to rescue Beatrice from Lucifer. Also, Virgil was portrayed as a weakly spirit and only as a guide.
Aside from being portrayed as a might warrior, Dante's is not free from flaw, in the game and movie that is. Dante's main sin was his unfaithfulness to his wife. As you can see, Dante was part of the crusade, ordained by the pope, to convert unbelievers to Christianity and to "purge" those who interferes with them. Well, not all unbelievers where easily converted so they are either captured, tortured or just killed, only method I saw was through intense torture and starvation.
Dante's unfaithfulness to his wife, this is the one sin that caused all of this trouble anyhow. During one of Dante's expedition, one of the captured unbelievers, a woman, offered herself to Dante just so to have her brother freed. Dante was tempted and that's when shit happened. It's because of a broken vow of somehow which made Beatrice soul cursed and had Lucifer took her. And then Dante travels to hell to get Beatrice back. When they met Beatrice wasn't at first knowledgeable of Dante's betrayal so she still think she was a damsel in distress about to be saved by her knight in shining armor. Then Lucifer revealed Dante's sin to her. And you know what happened. In the end Beatrice finally forgave Dante and Dante defeated Lucifer in the bottom of hell where Lucifer resides.
Please do note, that this description came just from my memory so I might have said something wrong.
It's funny though, since after I read book, similar things are in there but there's a major difference as well. Namely, the portrayal of Dante. In the book, Dante isn't much of a warrior, in the depths of hell that is. Dante was a portrayed as a common man, in his journey, common in a sense that he is normally scared, gets curious at things and needs much guidance. He went to hell, not on his volition but it was said that a fearful beast was following him and it made him lost track of the "right path" and his travel through hell will set him straight. Virgil is different, he is a guide and a brave one, he was there for Dante and sort of like the main force in the entirety of tale.
Well, enough of the Inferno book, the next one I'm planning on reading is the Dante's Purgatorio. Unfortunately, I'm also watching an anime, Assassination Classroom, I sort of semi-binge watched for three days, which made reading a bit hard. The anime is about a classroom with a teacher that an octopus creatures of some sort. The thing about this teacher is it's super powerful and the main objective of the class, besides passing and graduating school, is to kill their teacher. Note the name of the teacher is Koro-sensei, which means "unkillable teacher," this is literally what Koro-sensei is, well until the end of the season two perhaps. I just finished season one though.
The anime begins with Class 3-E, being assigned to kill Koro-sensei. You see, this teacher have somehow chopped out a big portion of the moon. He is virtually unkillable since he moves in speed "Mach 20" and sort of like he could accelerate that fast that everything around him moves slow to a point of near stand still. Well, luckily, he made an agreement of some sort with the government, i think of every country, that he will want to teach Class 3-E of the university (that I can't seem to spell out) and will give the world only until the said class's graduation until he does the same with Earth of what happened to the moon.
The class is then taught to be assassin while also going on with their daily lives as students and hidden trained assassins. All to graduate as well as the main objective of killing their teacher.
What else? Oh, also I'm into a game, and my team is doing fine. Perhaps that's all. Oh and then the daily life problem. I think that's all of it.
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