This covers the plot, the summary, the literary elements, and the symbols of the second part of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy which is the Purgatorio.

1. The Divine
Comedy
Dante's
Purgatorio
By: Dante Alighieri

2. 01 Plot

3. Introduction:
Dante and Virgil
emerge from
their journey
through Hell.

4. Dante encounters the souls in Ante-
Purgatory.
Dante enters the gate and begins to climb
Mount Purgatory.
As Dante ascends, Virgil explains the
nature of each sin.
The travelers encounter the Roman poet
Statius.
At the summit Dante and Virgil enter the
Earthly Paradise.
Rising Action:

5. Climax:
Beatrice greets
Dante and
urges him to
confess his
sins.

6. Falling Action:
Swooning with
guilt, Dante is
carried to the
river Lethe.

7. Dante prepares
for Heaven by
drinking of the
river Eunoe.
Resolution

8. 02
8
Summary

9. Purgatorio is the second of three
poems that make up The Divine
Comedy by Florentine statesman,
poet, and philosopher Dante. In The
Divine Comedy, Dante travels first
through Hell (the poem Inferno), then
through Purgatory (the poem
Purgatorio), and finally through
Heaven (the poem Paradiso).
Purgatorio follows Dante on his
journey from the shores of Purgatory,
through the seven levels where
penitents atone for the seven deadly
sins, and into the Garden of Eden. The
poem is divided into 33 cantos.

10. Cantos 1-9 find Dante and his
guide, Roman poet Virgil,
arriving at Purgatory’s shores
and searching for the entrance.
An angel marks Dante’s brow
with seven Ps, one to represent
each of the seven deadly sins:
pride, envy, wrath, sloth,
avarice, gluttony, and lust.

11. In Cantos 10-26, Virgil and
Dante travel through the seven
levels of purgation, one for each
of the sins. They see examples of
virtue and vice from figures
represented in classical Greco-
Roman myth, as well as in
Hebrew and Christian
scriptures. Penitents continue to
sing relevant hymns together.

12. In Canto 28, Dante meets a
woman, Matelda, who will
lead him to Beatrice, a
woman he fell in love with
as a child but who married
another man and died
young. Beatrice will take
over as Dante’s guide in the
Garden of Eden and on his
next journey, through
Heaven.

13. 03
Literary
Elements

14. 1. Genre
2. Setting and Context
3. Narrator and Point of View
4. Tone and Mood
5. Protagonist and Antagonist

15. 6. Major Conflict
7. Climax
8. Foreshadowing
9. Understatement
10. Allusions
11. Imagery

16. 04 Symbols

17. Dew and Lethe’s Water
In almost all
contexts, water in
Purgatory signifies
purification. The one
exception is the sea
surrounding the
island.

18. The Griffin and Chariot
In the procession
Dante witnesses in
the Earthly Paradise,
the griffin and
chariot, which are
positioned centrally,
represent Christ and
the Church.

19. The Eagle and the Fox
The eagle and fox
attack, drop feathers
on, and generally give
a hard time to the
chariot. The animals, as
you might guess,
represent a couple
enemies of the Church.

20. The Mountain
Mount Purgatory, the
setting of the poem's
major action, is itself one
massive symbol. The act of
climbing a mountain has
features in common with
Dante's idea of spiritual
growth.

21. The Seven Ps
Just before Dante enters
Purgatory proper, an
angel takes the tip of a
sharp sword and writes
the letter P seven times on
his forehead. The letter is
generally agreed to stand
for peccato (sin), written
seven times to represent
the capital sins.

22. Prepared by:
Katherine Dahang…………………………Third Year/Bachelor of Elementary Education
Danica Antiquina…………………………..Third Year/Bachelor of Secondary Education Major in Mathematics