The Concept of Love in Dantes Purgatorio

A significant idea contained within Dante's The Divine Comedy is the Augustinian concept of ordered and disordered love. Each realm of the afterlife symbolizes the type of love the inhabitants exercised while they were living on earth. For example, the Inferno represents disordered love, since the souls in Hell exhibited little love for mankind and little acknowledgement of God. Because the kind of love Hell symbolizes is the worst type that anyone could possess, it is located nearest to the center of the earth, farthest away from God. On the other hand, Paradise, which is situated closest to God, represents ordered love. This area is reserved for those who treated their neighbors well and felt connected to God. Although they sinned during their lifetimes, they fully repented long before death. However, Purgatory is unlike Paradise or the Inferno. Since the inhabitants of Purgatory were those who started to repent later in their lifetimes, but still often only thought of their own individual needs and corporeal pleasures, it only makes sense that this world be in between Heaven and Hell. Purgatory, being a "gray area" (that is, neither all good or all bad), represents a type of

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