Riddle

He looks very strange. He has a wee bit of paunch. Every time you see him, he is wearing a green jacket. Mustaches are grown from his waist. And if you unplug his beard and have a look, there have rows of teeth are revealed. Who is he?





A: Corm

Canterbury Tales Casting Assignment

Robert John Downey Jr is an actor who was rated “Great Performers” by The New York Times. He become famous because the movie Sherlock Holmes and Iron Man. He has a brown curly hair, beard and vivid facial features. And as I know, he also is a facetious person in the daily life. So I chose him to be the Knight. He is a truth, courtesy and honor person who was rated a wise perfect gentle Knight. And he fought 15 at Tramissene. Robert John Downey Jr performs lots of movies about hero and those movies are always moved people. And also the Knight was called as “meekly as a maid”. I think this man’s acting skill is enough to show knight’s two sides. One is brave and one is tender. He is the best choice to perform the Knight.

Gwyneth Paltrow got the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1998. She became famous when she was young and she was rated the luckiest girl in the world. Because of it, she has lots of experience in show biz. She attended in lots of famous movies, such as Iron Man and The Avengers. In the Iron Man, she was a secretary. And we all could see how great she did for playing a secretary. And the Oxford Cleric is a clerk and a student who spent time and money on learning. She prayed and returning thanks. She never spoke word more than was need and she always book philosopher. The reason I choose her is she is a mature, intellectual woman and she really can show a hard-working lady. She is the best one who can perform it.

Christian Bale is a diversified actor in America. He was the protagonist in lots of famous movies, such as the Batman and the Terminator Salvation. And he attended the Chinese movie The Flowers of War and this movie got high viewing in china. He as a priest in that movie and I think he did a wonderful job. So in my opinion, he is the best choice for the Friar. Friar is a limiter and finest beggar. He was in charge of people’s marriage. His jobs were asking money for the poor, singing, playing role, and getting profit from dealing the things. Christian Bale has a gentle eyes and he always with a warm smile. He is a person who can make people really want to come close to him. So I think he cam be the Friar.

Guide Through Hell

I want to pick Virgil as my guide to lead me through the hell. He is the person who created the hell and he must know it so much. I am thinking about the hell must have so many daanguages. Virgil knew them a lot. And Virgil wrote a similar journey about he went to the under world. He had experience to teavel through it. Dante chose him and believe him so much. And he also did not lose his way when he follow Virgil to go to the Hell. So i think i can believe him, too.

Inferno Canto Guide 29

                                Canto 29

                                                                     By Dora Luo

                                 Ninth Bolgia, continued: Virgil’s rebuke---Geri del Bello

                Tenth bolgia, falsifiers: alchemists: the Aretine---vanity of the Sienese---Capocchio

                                                                                                                             ---Inferno

Summary:

Dante stayed too long to talk to the soul in the ninth bolgia. Virgil reprimanded him and reminded him that they had to continue their journey. They talked about Dante’s kinsman who died unavenged. And then they went to the tenth bolgia which is for falsifiers. Dante talked to two Italians. He said he would tell people their names after he goes back to his world if they told him their stories. One of them is from Arezzo. He died because of the fire but he in the tenth bolgia because of the alchemy. The other one is Capocchio who also falsified metals with alchemy.  

Sinners:

Geri Del Bello: Dante’s ancestor who died unavenged

Falsifiers

Aretine: burned at the stake. But in tenth bolgia because of the alchemy

Capocchio: falsified metals with alchemy

Punishment:

They heaped together. There were scabs all over their bodies. They could not control the great rage of the itch so they kept scratching themselves with their fingernails. .

Two High-Order Questions:

1)               Aretine and Capocchio were the sinners who punished by God. Why Dante still helped them to spread their names after he got back to the world of the living?

2)               What kind of society that the tenth bolgia created?

Ten Questions:

1)               Which kinds of people are punished in this Pouth?

A. Usures   B. Simoniacs  C. Falsifiers

2)               What kind of punished did they get?

3)               What was Virgil’s attitude after he saw Dante still wanted to stay in the ninth bolgia?

4)               Why Virgil urged Dante to leave?

5)               Who felt angry because his murder has not been avenged? 

     A. Capaneus  B. An ancestor of Dante    C. Boniface

6)               What did Dante do after Virgil asked him to leave?

7)               What country was that two sinners who talked to Dante from?

A. Italy  B. Germany  C. France

8)               What would Dante do after he go back to his world if those two sinners told him their story?

9)               What was the reason that made Aretine died?

10)          What was the reason that made Aretine stay in the tenth bolgia?

Inferno Canto Guide 19

                                                       Canto 19

                                                            By Dora Luo

                Third bolgia: Simoniacs-Nicholas Ⅱ-denunciation of corrupt clergy

                                                                                                    ---Inferno

Summary:

Dante and Virgil were in the Third Pouth where punished the Simoniacs. Simoniacs’ feet, legs and thighs were showed from the mouth of the protruded and the rest of their bodies were inside the pits. Their soles were flamed endlessly. And then, Dante saw one spirit had been tortured more than others. He went to speak to him and noted that the spirit was NicholasⅡ who thought Dante was Boniface. Dante corrected him and the spirit told him that he was a pope who committed the simony. He talked about his position before he died. And he added that there would have a person who committed more crimes and he would have a worse fate. Dante said to the spirits that Christ didn’t ask St. Peter for treasure to get the Keys of Heaven and Earth. Dante told him that he deserved his punishment. At the end, Virgil showed satisfactory on Dante’s expression and helped him to leave.

Sinners:

NicholasⅡ, who bought or sold ecclesiastical pardons or offices.

Contrapasso/Punishment:

Sinners’ bodies were inside the pits except their feet, legs and thighs. Their soles were flamed endlessly.

Two High-Order Questions:

1)          Why NicholasⅡ showed the torture more than his other companions?

2)          According to the punishment for NicholasⅡ, what did author want to expose about the realistic society at that time?

Ten Questions:

1)          Which kinds of people are punished in this Pouth?
             A. Usures B. Simoniacs C. Sodomite

2)          What kind of punished did they get?

3)          Which part of sinners’ body is not in the pit?

4)          Who is the person that NicholasⅡmistakes Dante for?  

             A. Capaneus B. Virgil C. Boniface

5)          What did Dante feel after he heard Nicholas called him Boniface?

  A. happy B. confuse C. angry

6)          Who will come from the west?

7)          What was Dante’s attitude when he talks to Nicholas?

8)          What was Virgil’s attitude after he heart the way that Dante told to Nicholas?

       A.  happy B. confuse C. angry

9)          What kind of person that Dante thought were idolaters and an affliction on the world?

10)        What kind of bad thing did Nicholas do before he died?