Friday, November 30, 2007

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Dante enters the last circle of Hell and sees the fearsome sight of Satan.

According to Dante, what is this final circle of Hell?

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

He describes it as a wild and bitter wind. It is freezing cold and the pople look like ice sticks.

Anonymous said...

This final circle of hell is reserved for those people who denied God's love and warmth, so they are fated to forever remain in coldness.

Anonymous said...

These people are stuck in ice because they showed no love or warmth at any point of their life, so now they are frozen for eternity.

Anonymous said...

Dante doesn't see the wild and bitter wind, he feels it. When he hides behind Virgil, he's trying to hide behind human reason, which is the only "wind break". He is afraid of the last circle of hell, and he describes it as cold and icy. I think the shell represents sin, and satan hides in the cold core of the frozen shell.