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frankenstein
i just finished reading frankenstein, and i was just skimming through it, and noticed a line that i never understood. on page 56:
"..became such a thing that dante could not have conceived"
who's dante? is he an artist or something?
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Dante Alighieri. Look him up in Wikipedia for all the details. He's most famous for the "Divine Comedy", three epic poems that take him from Hell, through Purgatory, and into Paradise. His vision of Hell, in "The Inferno", is pretty gruesome stuff.
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Dante as in 'Dante's Inferno' from the depths of hell. Basicly the quote states that it was worse than hell-something unholy and that she couldn't even imagine Dante creating.
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This is in reference to the story, "The Divine Comedy," (more commonly known as Dante's Inferno) by Dante Alighieri...it was written in the 14th century during the renaissance.
"...became such a thing that Dante could not have conceived.." refers to the levels of hell that are outlined in the story (Dante's Inferno). So whatever was being talked about in Frankenstein, was basically being compared to something worse than one of Dante's levels of hell.
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