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Animals Are There For A Reason

Dante’s Inferno is a book that has enraptured many audiences for ages. It was written during Dante’s exile from Florence, which was commanded by Pope Boniface VIII. Inferno is one part of the Divine Comedy and reveals Dante’s expedition through hell. In Dante’s hell, he separated the hell into nine different circles. In each of the nine circles, he placed different creatures to guard or even to punish sinners. In Inferno, Dante used creature symbolism to enhance the understanding of God’s omnipotence, mercy and wrath through his punishments.
Dante’s story begins when he awakes from slumber and finds himself lost in a dark forest. In fear of his surroundings he began to wander around until he finds a hill covered with a bright, illuminating light. Dante tries to climb this hill but on the way up he sees three different animals which were obstructing his path. These three animals were the lion, the leopard and the she-wolf. They were very foul beasts. The first that D...

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