About_Francesca’S_Language

About Francesca’s language As one of the most influential poets during the renaissance, Dante spread a new philosophic think of afterlife via a powerful and unconstrained style of language. In his book Divine Comedy, he takes great advantage of his language to describe his unique visual imagination. When he protrays his conversation with Francesca, he uses Francesca’s language as a tool to depict her multiple characters which causes her sinful life. Francesca expresses a fully passion toward love and regards that she is worthy be loved by her soul mate Paolo. In her knowledge, love means to meet the right person who can “kindle” in her “gentle heart” and “the beauty of her body”, she thinks that love should be mutual and it “excuse no one loved from loving. Therefore she regards love as what she can be excuse from her sin. In addition, when Francesca describes her unforgettable time that is spent with Paoplo, she is seductive in her choice of words. “flushed and paled”, “longed-for lips”, “flowing tears”and “yielded”, all those words shows that instead of confessing her sin, she prefers to recalling the old time. In her seductive words, a great passion about the “past happiness” appears all the time. Without any regretion, she lives in her own memory. From this aspect of Francesca’s character, Dante shows his sympathy toward her, Dante says that “her suffer brings painful tears of pity to his eyes” . however from other aspect, it also become a reason that leads her tragic ending. Francesca never face her sin from the beginning of the conversation to the end of it. When she talks to Dante, she never regards herself as a sinner. She says when she stays with her soul mate Paolo, and they are “innocent of suspicion”. And she says “their eyes were brought together by the book” which means that she separate herself with the sin, she thinks that book provide her the situation and leads her to commit the mistake, because the book the they read talks about “how Lancelot fell in love”. While they are reading about the kissing part of the book, they lose control. Therefore, besides avoiding facing the sin, she is also a person who can not control herself. That also relates to her sin, since lust is a sin that can not get rid of desire, all of the lustful people do not have the ability to control themselves, so does Francesca, and apparently from her words, she does not realize that. This is also the reason why she keeps asking Dante for sympathy. In the beginning of the conversation, she says “Dante who show pity for their atrocious plight” so that she tells him about her story. In this case, she thinks that what she has done is not a sin but a natural phenomenon. Another character shows from her words is her pride. She is capable of lying, when she talks about the story of Lancelot, she automatically changes the fact of the hero into a guide who leads them making the mistake. The reason that she acts like that is because she has a magnificent background. Francesca is daughter of Guido Vecchio da Polenta, Lord of Ravenna. Therefore, her pride does not allow her to be sinner, and all the words that she said are the result of self-deception. She automatically denies the truth that she is a sinner. With an extraordinary imagination, Dante exhibits all the characters of Francesca via her language. She has a great passion with love, but this passion makes her forget herself. She is pride, but because of this pride, she cannot face her real person.