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Dante’s Inferno takes mankind on a frightening journey through the depths of hell. This mentally and physically 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
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Approximate Word count = 2407
Approximate Pages = 10 (250 words per page double spaced)
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