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Dantes Inferno1

towards Heaven. They emerge to the surface, rising above the ugliness of sin and journey towards their goal as they catch sight of the stars shining in the heavens. Their journey begins on Good Friday and they emerge from hell on the day of resurrection, Easter Sunday on the underside of the world at the foot of Mount Purgatory. Dante's vision expresses his personal experience, through images to convey his interpretation of the nature of human existence. He writes in the first person so the reader can identify and deeply understand the truths he wished to share about the meaning of life and man's relationship with the Creator. Dante's relationship with God is evident in his writing, which portrays the experience of a deeply committed Christian. During the time he wrote, in the Middle Ages, this religious commitment was widely accepted and encouraged. It is the spiritual truth that those who insist on denying God's will and die unrepentant are eternally damned unless they repent and walk in the ways of the Lord, which makes Dante's Inferno a religious and morally challenging experience. On a more personal level the pain of being isolated from family and friends must be equal to any punishment found in the Inferno. They are where we gain most of our sources of love and that warm feeling inside us. I think Dante expresses this by describing the pit of hell as a frozen lake. This lack of contact with your sources of warmth and love must me emotionally wrecking for anyone. I think Dante uses such graphic descriptions and imagery to provoke similar feelings in us. Dante helps us understand his personal hell and he uses his writing to escape his hell just as his character did. In your question you asked for us to find a circle we disapprove of and to explain why. I have not been able to do so. Not because I agree with every form of punishment that he enforces on the apparent sinners but because I do not understand it. His vision of the underw...

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