How Does Paradiso Symbolize In Dante's Inferno

In the book “The Inferno of Dante” Dante uses stars as a symbolic meaning at the end of the book. Dante uses stars to symbolize the heavens and freedom. Virgil helps Dante understand the gravity switch at the center of the earth as they climb Lucifer. Dante and Virgil climb out to see the sky. Dante’s 24 hour journey comes to an end “where [he] came forth, and once more saw the stars”. (Canto 34 line 140). This one sentence symbolizes the idea that Dante has begun his slow climb out of sin and confusion and has taken a step toward Beatrice and God, ending this very dark poem on a note of brilliant optimism. It is greatly significant that both Purgatorio and Paradiso end with the same word as Inferno: stele, or the stars. It is clear not only