Divine Comedy Thesis
Dante Alighieri’s “The Divine Comedy” is a poem written in first person that tells of Dante’s altered-ego pilgrimage through the three realms of death, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise while trying to reach spiritual maturity and an understanding of God’s love while attaining salvation. Dante creates an imaginative correspondence between a soul’s sin on Earth and the punishment one receives in Hell.
"In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself in a dark wood where the straightway was lost."(Canto I, pg. 11). Throughout “The Divine Comedy”, this is the only reference Dante, in my opinion, is referring to that “dark place” we all find ourselves in at some point in time in our own life. I, as Dante’s Pilgrim, have found
"In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself in a dark wood where the straightway was lost."(Canto I, pg. 11). Throughout “The Divine Comedy”, this is the only reference Dante, in my opinion, is referring to that “dark place” we all find ourselves in at some point in time in our own life. I, as Dante’s Pilgrim, have found