ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The answer to the above question can be found in the line: He finds Dante in the woods on the evening of Good Friday in the year 1300 and serves as a guide as Dante begins his religious pilgrimage to find God.

Detailed explanation-2: -Dante’s descent into Hell on Good Friday, his journey through the circles of the Inferno, and emergence from the other realms on Easter Sunday, parallels the Christian doctrine of Christ’s descent into hell.

Detailed explanation-3: -The time was at the beginning of the morning, and the sun was mounting up with all those stars, that were with him when Divine Love first moved all delightful things, so that the hour of day, and the sweet season, gave me fair hopes of that creature with the bright pelt.

Detailed explanation-4: -Dante tells that he traversed the three kingdoms of the afterlife during the spring equinox, starting on the night between the 7th and 8th of April of 1300, the year of the first Jubilee proclaimed by Pope Boniface VIII, and that he ended his journey at midnight of 14th April.

Detailed explanation-5: -After banishment from his hometown Florence, Italy due to the political group “the Black-Guelphs” taking over, Dante is forced to partake on a horrendous journey through Hell. It is the only way he can reach his ultimate goal of eternal unity with God.