The Divine Comedy characters

Virgilio

Virgilio is an ancient Greek poet. He becomes the conductor of Dante and will save him from the three predatory animals that personify the three human vices. It is sensuality, greed, and lust. In the comedy, Virgilio is personified as intelligence and wisdom that can save from these vices. To some...

Odysseus

Odysseus

Odysseus became famous as a hero who fought in the Trojan War. Odysseus left the family and went to satisfy his curiosity, exposing other people to a mortal danger. From the viewing of Dante: the thirst for adventure, the imposition of other ideas on others - insidiousness, disregard for the...

Achilles

Achilles

First of all, Achilles is one of the heroes of the Trojan War. He appears in the image of an invulnerable intrepid hero who carried death to his enemies in the large part thanks to his mother. On the other hand, his image can be interpreted without attaching importance to invulnerability but...

Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri

Dante in the “Divine Comedy” is the main hero, the narrator, narrating from the first person. He is spiritually lost and forced to flee from the True Way. Due to the fact that he is spiritually weakened, his guide is sent to him. He is a spectator of the pictures of Hell and Paradise...

Beatrice

Beatrice is the eternal figure of the unattainable platonic love of man in life and in death. It is she who, descending from paradise, asks Virgilio to become the conductor of the poet in the afterlife. She then shows him Paradise. Dante loved Beatrice nine-year-old boy. She very early passed away...

Roland

Roland is a commander, a hero from the Song of Roland. Roland is brave and presumptuous, courageous and fearless. The qualities that make him so attractive hero lead his squad and himself to death. Fighting with enemies without calling anyone to help is a matter of honor. Here, the courage and...