Journey Through Hell

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Throughout the years, people's views of sin have been changed. Today society view of sin is different than what Dante envisioned about sin at his time. During Dante's time, the worst sin that one can commit is rejecting the church. However, in the book The Inferno, Dante sees that rejecting the church is one of the least important sins. Other sins that were perceived as unimportant during Dante time are worse than rejection of the church in The Inferno. By doing so Dante tries to show that the magnitude of the sin does not matter. The most important thing he wants to point out is that people need to learn from their mistake and distinguish between good and evil. Therefore, after a long journey through hell Dante learned to avoid evil and become spiritually enlightened. By becoming spiritually enlightened and avoiding evil, Dante proceeds much closer to the salvation of God.

In The Inferno, Dante loses all sense of direction, reason, and he wander away from the True Way and enters the Dark Wood of Error. He tries to find his way out of the Dark Wood of Error, but his attempts are unsuccessful. As soon as he tries to get out of this sinful place, he is confronted by all kind of beasts. They try to hold him back and attac

In canto I, Dante mentions the three animals, a leopard, a lion and a she-wolf. These animals act as a symbol for the various types of sin. In his book, Dante categorizes sin into three different category fraud, incontinence and violence. In canto XVIII, Dante uses the she-wolf as a symbol of fraud. The sins of fraud are place the furthest from God and in the deepest pits of hell, near Satan. In the eight circle of hell, call the Malebolge, It here that each of the simple fraud punished in the concentric ditches.

As Dante enters the wood of the suicides all he hears is the cries and the sounds of sorrow. The souls of this Circle destroyed their own bodies and denied human form. They can only express themselves through their own agony. In addition, they are only allowed to speak through their own blood because they chose to take away their life. Taking one life is not only limits the enjoyment of this beautiful world created by God, but it a crime against one own soul. Through this experience, Dante sees that he does not have any control over his life. It God that have all the authority over his life and only God allowed take it away when ever he wants. In the wood of the suicides, a person uttered this to Dante, "Here sall we drag them and in this mournful glade our bodies will dangle to the end of time, each on the thorns of it s tormented shade"(122). Therefore, if a person reject his or her own body, then God will do what ever he please with it.

As his journey come to an end, Dante knows that on this journey he not only getting a second chance of improving his life. But it an experience that will allow him to get much closer to God and reject all forms of evil. The sin that human commits here on earth act as an instrument that separates human beings from God grace and love. Right before leaving hell, Virgil told him, "Now see the face of Dis! This is the place where you must arm your soul against all dread"(283). This message from Virgil to Dante, signal Dante that even though he successfully pass through all the circle of hell, but his soul still can be influence by Satan. Therefore, he must prepare and reject Satan at all time. When Dante is about to pass from the shadow of darkness into the shining light of Heaven he said, "My Guide and I crossed over and began to mount that little known and light

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