In The Aeneid, Aeneas is on a journey to lead his people, the Trojans to a new homeland. Aeneas was chosen by fate to lead the Trojans to establish a new homeland in Italy and Rome. This fate also represents the national destiny of Rome. Aeneas looks towards the future, towards Rome's power over the known world. In the same way that the Promised Land was guaranteed to the Hebrews in the Old Testament, the Trojans' Promised Land was guaranteed by fate. History is the guarantor. The theme of this work is that of how a nation came to be.

Aeneas suffers a great deal. Emerging from this suffering,

Dante's incapacity to see sin is developed throughout the novel, eventually allowing him to understand sin and deal with it. When Dante saw the souls of the opportunists being tormented and chased by hornets, he fainted. "I fell as one falls tired into sleep" (Canto III, line 136). When Dante saw the tragic couple of Paolo and Francesca, he was disturbed. In Hell, Francesca was bound forever to Paolo without the possibility of growth or change. She could have chosen the love which leads to God and forms eternal bonds with glory and perfection. Dante is trying to demonstrate how easy the first step into sin is. We are aware of the consequences of the lovers' choice. But if we hadn't seen them in Hell, we might not understand this step as a sin, as a weakness of will, as a wrong choice of brief passion over eternal glory. Dante fainted after seeing Paolo and Francesca. "I swooned as though to die, and fell to Hell's floor as a body, dead, falls" (Canto V, lines 141 - 142).

Aeneas will lead his people and conquer their new homeland. Aeneas has many obstacles that stand in his way. Juno hates the Trojans and wants to do everything in her power to prevent the Trojans from reaching Rome and Italy. Aeneas has inner obstacles as well. Until Aeneas descends into Hades, he will never fully gave up his old life in Troy. He constantly thinks about his life in Troy. "Weeping, I must give up the shores, the harbors that were my home, the plain that once was Troy" (Book III, lines 14-15). He was still grieving for the family and friends that he lost in Troy. At one point Aeneas even said that it would have been better if he had died in Troy. When Aeneas descended into the underworld, Anchises showed Aeneas his lineage and all of the great Roman leaders that came from Aeneas. Anchises told Aeneas that the Romans' great gift would be for ruling. " Roman, these will be your arts: to te

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