Language in Hell
My post is more for my own thoughts than an analysis. Art and language gives us a way to communicate. Obviously, everyone communicates differently. So we gather with people that communicate like we do in order to form societies. That brings me to my thought. Up to this point, the characters in Inferno have use normal communication and/or gibberish to make a point. Imagine the hilarity when one meets the demons in Canto XXI. At the end, the demon underlings blow raspberries at the leader, to which her replies with a toot of infernal flatulence like a signal horn. I guess you can communicate in more ways than I thought.
On a serious note, this very comical instance shows the importance of communication in any form. even in Hell. Through art, we have physical and visual representations of our many emotions and feelings. Literature records history, describes the present and creates futures. Spoken word and sounds signify objects and concepts, enabling us to understand others. Yet, Dante chooses "a bugle of his arse" as the language of demons. Thoughts anyone?
-Annakate and Moriah
On a serious note, this very comical instance shows the importance of communication in any form. even in Hell. Through art, we have physical and visual representations of our many emotions and feelings. Literature records history, describes the present and creates futures. Spoken word and sounds signify objects and concepts, enabling us to understand others. Yet, Dante chooses "a bugle of his arse" as the language of demons. Thoughts anyone?
-Annakate and Moriah
I agree. This part was very comical. In fact the deeper he got into hell the more weirder it got. Not only did it become weird by the way they communicated, the way things were done were more grotesque. From pass gas to people being covered in poop, things just really got weird. I will Dante got very creative when it came to that, and I kind of like the fact he put SO much weird creativity .
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