exhausting journey proves to be an invaluable lesson in restoration of the Church, which was in a corrupt state.

The physical ends of the journey are to strengthen the pilgrim's body for the upcoming and rigorous ascent on

mount purgatory. The intellectual ends of the journey, however, are far more beneficial to the human soul. Man

must first understand the foundations of sin before he can hope to climb the mountain of salvation; it is only by

climbing down Lucifer's grotesque body, i.e. grappling with sin itself, that the pilgrim is able to reach the

mountain of Purgatory. On his voyage through hell, Dante shows the effects of the sin on the sinner's soul

through their punishments; each punishment is relative to the sin. Dante symbolizes the effects of sin on the soul

by using variations of a constant motion to punish the sinners in the circle of the lustful and the round of

sodomites. Dante presents the second circle of hell as the pitiful realm of the lustful, in which the souls are blasted

by a wind storm "eternal in its rage"(V.31). The lustful, l

and feet moved constantly in opposite directions" (21-27). The circling motion made by the sodomites

together formed a turning wheel... And circling this way each kept his face pointed at me, so that their necks

to their sexual appetite. However, Dante places the sodomites in the seventh circle of hell, which is reserved for

constant motion of a circle. The result being that there is no progress in any direction and an unnatural alignment

are forever being swooned. The carefree lifestyle the lustful practice leaves no room for self-direction. Thus, the

constant motion of a circle. The result being that there is no progress in any direction and an unnatural alignment

have the power of self-direction. The sodomites, like the lustful, have allowed themselves to become powerless

constant motion of a circle. The result being that there is no progress in any direction and an unnatural alignment

foundation of all sin, Dante us spiritually prepared to welcome the hope of salvation Dante's Inferno takes mankind on a frightening journey through the depths of hell. This mentally and physically

image of the harsh winds incessantly whirling the souls symbolizes the how the lustful deprived themselves of

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