Dante's JourneyDante records the journey through hell in the book "The Inferno". Dante's poetry records thoughts and views on the punishments of getting to hell and the sins committed to get there. Dante breaks down the path through hell and gives an idea of the order in which the punishments fall in order to be placed closest to the center of hell. Dante begins during the Middle Ages era and shows the reader through the poem the dominance of the Roman Catholic Church during the Renaissance era. Dante begins by traveling up the hill which is blocked by three beasts; this is where the dark ages began. It is here that "Dante's Divine Comedy" was one of the lights that led the West out of the Middle Ages and into the light of the Renaissance." As Dante travels through the depths of hell, he begins to see the sins that would be punished and tortured in medieval times in the same acts that are shown in the Renaissance era, and yet treated in other ways. It is the Renaissance era that is responsible for bringing Dante out of the journey through hell this is where his feelings come from. When Dante comes out of the dark forest, Dante is blocked by the three beasts. The beasts are a lion, a leopard and the she-wolf of lust and the she-wolf represents what is greed or greed. The three wild beasts have three of the seven deadly sins. These seven sins come from the Christians of the medieval period. ”, “THROUGH ME YOU ENTER THE POPULATION OF LOSS.”…” ABANDON ALL HOPE, YOU WHO ENTER HERE.” As Dante passes through the gates of hell, he discovers that "The heavens, so that their beauty may not be diminished, have chased them away, and deep hell welcomes them." This pushes Dante's beliefs about Christian ideas in order from the lightest to the most severe sanctions in Dante's mind. Among the sins and closes at the top are some of the seven deadly sins. If one could live with these sins then one would be doomed to a life of eternal damnation.
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