Her hair had a subtle light to it and her eyes had a widened appearance. In the second Circle of Hell , when Beatrice was encountered again, her appearance was heavily altered. Although she no longer possessed a ghostly visage and looked more like her living self, Beatrice wore a monstrous and form-fitting gown that was made of what appeared to be demonic flesh with spikes protruding around the open front and a high jagged collar.
The dress was open to just beneath her navel, exposing her cleavage and it flared out into a mermaid skirt. The mutton sleeves were capped with paw-like shoulder pauldrons. Her hair was twisted up to resemble ornate and hornlike structures and was adorned with a single diamond-shaped gem. A matching gem of a different color was at her throat.
After deliberately consuming the pomegranate seeds that are offered to her by Lucifer, Beatrice was transformed fully into a demonic consort for the Devil. Her hair became an array of true and twisted black horns that are wreathed with flames. Her forehead was adorned with a chain of pearl-like gems, forming a diadem above her glowing red eyes. In the instances where the gleam of her eyes are dimmed, they appeared to be filmed over with a reddish-pink sclera.
Her skin became extremely pale with a few burned areas while the spikes protruded from her shoulders above the darkened armbands. Her lower arms and hands became blackened, fiery, cracked and claw-like. Her gown also underwent changes: The high collar came to resemble a large and burned neck ruff which extended down in ruffles between her breasts to the hips where it spreaded out in an inflamed peplum adorned with sharp spikes and a demonic skull ornament.
The nipples of her exposed bust were concealed by proportional flames which extended into a flaming corset-like structure. Her tapered skirt was made up of a writhing storm of damned souls. Finally, as Queen of Hell, Beatrice was far larger in height than Dante, towering several feet over him when the bottom of her skirt was at floor level. Upon her absolution after seeing Dante's determination to save her soul, Beatrice reverted back to her radiant and ethereal state.
Near the end of the game, she was seen in her more human form from the very beginning and nude once again with mist obscuring her lower half. Beatrice was introduced in the game as Dante's betrothed who was waiting for him to return home from his services during the Crusades. Before Dante was summoned to join the Third Crusade, the two made love for the first time. Beatrice believed completely in Dante's faithfulness to their love in spite of not being married yet. As a token of this devotion, Beatrice gave him her cross to take with him on the Crusades.
Dante swore on it to forsake "All of the pleasures of the flesh" until he returned to Beatrice. She also asked him to protect her brother named Francesco who joined Dante during the Crusades. At an unspecified time, while Dante was away at Acre , Beatrice made a bargain with Lucifer. According to the deal, if Dante kept his promise to remain true to her during the Crusades, Lucifer would ensure that he would return home safely. However, if Dante broke his vow and slept with another woman, Beatrice would have to give her soul to Lucifer and become the Devil's bride.
Unfortunately for Beatrice, while assigned to guard the prisoners at Acre, Dante slept with a Slave Girl who offered him "Comfort" in exchange for her and her "B rother 's" freedom though Dante expressed some remorse for betraying Beatrice. Nevertheless, this infidelity caused her to lose her bet with Lucifer. After committing several unspeakable acts in the misguided belief that the Crusaders are automatically absolved of all of their sins, Dante was killed at Acre by the Slave Girl's "Brother" who was her husband.
This man that was named the Avenger headed to Dante's home in Florence to complete his vengeance. Unaware about his own death or the Avenger's intention, Dante's soul also began journeying to Florence to be reunited with his beloved by having no memory of his horrific crimes or his betrayal of Beatrice. Meanwhile, Dante's father named Alighiero who Beatrice was staying with while Dante was away came upon her crying over the fact that she had not heard from Dante in three years.
Alighiero tried to persuade Beatrice into giving all of the hopes of Dante who was ever returning alive up in an attempt to seduce her. Realizing his intent, Beatrice recoiled from him, but at that moment, the Avenger broke into the villa.
Dante's father and the man engaged in a sword fight, but Alighiero was overpowered by the Avenger and killed when his gold cross was stabbed through his eye socket. Beatrice tried to escape, but she was killed when the Avenger threw Alighiero's sword at her, impaling her through the chest. Bernard in her place. He tells Dante that Beatrice has returned to the Empyrean and has instructed him to guide the pilgrim through the final stage of his journey.
The Empyrean is shaped like a white rose and is the highest heaven where the angels and the blessed reside. Citation: Inf. Dante Alighieri, and Mark Musa. Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, Citation: Purg. Scott, John A.
Understanding Dante. Notre Dame, Ind. A lot of great works of literature fall into that category. The biggest ones are especially important because they haven 't stopped coming up.
These works are continuously referenced. Another reason that humanities is taught is because it helps people express themselves better, and have a broader. Beatrice is from a wealthy Florentine family and was eight years old the first time they meet and did not speak a word to each other Cotter, Dante and Beatrice have only met twice, but Dante was so touched by both meetings he shares his love for Beatrice with the reader.
The second encounter occurred when they passed each other on the streets of Florence. She turned and greeted him; this filled him with such joy that he ran to his room and started to …show more content… In this sense Beatrice seems as the only evidence on why Dante should continue his journey through hell. Beatrice is the reason why Dante even made it through the underworld, by sending a guide down to help him. Her love for him got him through hell and on to the next chapter of his journey.
She comes down to Dante wearing a white veil representing faith, a green cape symbolizing hope and underneath the cape she wore a robe of flaming red signifying burning love.
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