why was it called the Divine Comedy?
it wasn't very funny
>>428094
Because it had a happy ending
Comedy in that sense is a story with a happy or at least okay ending.
>>428094
Ye olde words, anon.
Once upon a time, fiction was divided into comedy and tragedy, with extremely broad definitions of both terms that bore little resemblance to the modern usage.
>>428144
Doesn't knowing what a story is classified as spoil it then?
>>428380
They are hundreds of years old, do you go "Oh boy, I wonder if Macbeth will win!"?
>>429365
Hey fuck you I was about to finish that book.
>>429370
Macduff kills Macbeth because Macduff was born from a cesarean
>>429370
MARSTON DIES
>>428094
I just have a test on it
Didn't knew shit and ace it
>>428094
>why was it called the Divine Comedy?
Because it was a political satire, which qualifies as comedy. And don't listen to the bloody fools here withe their comedy->good end tragedy->bad end bullshit, the fools obviously never have read the Poetics.
>>429426
Didn't he put Pope Boner-face in hell for exiling him or something?
>>429428
Well he didn't really exile him, but the faction who did supported Boner-face so yeah.
>not very funny
Did you even get to the part with the fart trumpet demon?
>>429426
>the divine comedy was satire
I can feel your american roots young man
Let me guess, The Prince is OBVIOUSLY satire right?
>>429365
I think that we have meant was that the people from those times knew, more or less, how the story would end.
BTW, does macbeth win ?
>>429686
That was like one line.
I asked my teacher if the ridiculous fart demons were fallen angel type demons and she said, 'uh no I think they're native to hell.'
I'm interested in where those imps came from. Mischevious little farting imps don't really fit the whole 'tragic fallen angel' trope.
>>432835
Maybe Dante made them up as a satire of Gabriel and his trumpets.
