Fear In Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy

Fear is the factor that compels people to come to their senses. Fear can make a person go from being obscure of what heinous crimes that they are or have committed to being more sheepish than the boy who cried wolf. This story, “The Divine Comedy” is based on fear where the reader is taken on a journey like no other. ‘The Divine Comedy’ is the life-long work about a philosophical Christian, Dante Alighieri, who after being exiled from Florence, in the year 1302 Dante commenced to write his views on the repercussion of sinning in the form of 100 tersests. The formatting of this story is so meticulous for the reason that it has recurring themes, the number three. The story is based on three main parts all in the culmination of the pursuit of paradise. The first part is named the inferno, in which we meet our two main characters that will guide us down to the most exclusive parts of hell. This layer is where the acceptance of sin occurs. The second layer is named purgatory, in this layer the vocal point is to work
However in this paragraph we see a Dante who is now less phased by what he sees in this the second level of Hell, which is the first level that is passed the entrance gates into Hell. If the previous example portrayed the introduction of someone to fear, within this level will learn about a couple that has failed to acknowledge their mortal sins. As a result their lack of fear for sinning has pitted them in the second level of Hell. The two perpecuders names are Francesca and Paulo. In the story Dante writes fffffffffffff it was a result of their ingenuous behavior that made them go to Hell. Consequently Dante can relate to this example for he is a married man and has significant feelings for another woman, Beatrice. Dante is overcome to what may happen to him and