During this past week students have begun presenting their projects on their assigned canto of
Dante's Inferno. It has been really interesting to listen to the different sins and punishments of the canto's before mine and getting to see everyone's interpretations of them. One that really stood out to me was the presentation about people who hoarded and focused all of their attention on finding material objects. I thought the contrapasso of people having to carry their possessions on their back and lugging it around because they were never able to recognize what the important things in life were was very clever of Dante. The best part of the presentations for me have been the visual representations. Most of them have been very creative and clever, like making a tree with a barbie doll to represent canto 13 or interpreting canto one as wall street. They have all given me ideas on what I want to do for my visual and how I want to improve my presentation.
After listening to some of the presentations and learning about all the different sins, it makes me think about the sins that I am guilty of. The sins people in Dante's hell committed are sins that millions of people commit every day. Essentially, every person in the world would be in some level of Dante's hell. I do not agree with Dante on most of his placement decisions, such as putting homosexuals in hell because it is "unnatural". I look forward to listening to more presentations so I can learn more about the sins and their contrapassos. I present my canto on Monday, so I am especially looking forward to get my presentation over with. I am nervous to present, but I think overall it will go well.
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