but some were not. He goes into long descriptions of each of the souls and how they seemed to affect his life. Each of the souls was on the ledge of their demise. Dante becomes involved in discussions with some of them or narrates why they are there. Each of the souls has their own story, which in someway affected Dante's life. Dante of the characters shows probability of suffering and pain he felt going through life. Each of the people he met at one time in his life influenced him. Purgatory was only one of the three sections in Dante's The Divine Comedy. It was a weigh station to heaven. Once leaving hell, a soul was almost certain to make it to heaven on in purgatory. Dante's depiction of purgatory in a sense was a depiction of his quest for holiness. The story is of one man's journey to heaven through the perils of Hell. Dante's notions of the seven deadly sins are wise but do not seem to grasp some of the other sins thought to be worse. Why did he not include murder? He did include anger and greed, which could lead to murder. Would stealing not make his top 7 list? Again, we can look at greed or lust to cause someone to steal. The people Dante met along the way had influenced his life in some way or another. Each of the people met had a story which seemed to tell of one segment of Dante's life. Dante's struggle for freedom in Purgatory is finalized when he is introduced into Paradise. He has overcome all the seven deadly sins and confronted all adversities on his way to holiness. Dante's life truly inspired The Divine Comedy into one of the classic poetic stories of the 14th century. The Purgatory section of The Divine Comedy is by far the most intriguing of the three in its attempt to relate to the seven deadly sins that to this day confront society. One has to wonder if Dante knows something about death and what is to come of us. Dante died over 600 years ago but his knowledge lives on in philosophy and reworks of The Divine Com...
