FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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The soul’s union with the body
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The soul’s ascent to heaven
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The soul’s tour of purgatory
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The soul’s descent into hell
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Detailed explanation-1: -Dante’s Inferno is an allegory or a poem or story with a hidden meaning that is usually religious or political to convey a tale of a soul’s journey through sin to salvation. In the poem, Dante and his guide Virgil travel through the nine levels of Hell in order to make it to paradise.
Detailed explanation-2: -Allegorically, the poem represents the soul’s journey towards God, beginning with the recognition and rejection of sin (Inferno), followed by the penitent Christian life (Purgatorio), which is then followed by the soul’s ascent to God (Paradiso).
Detailed explanation-3: -The whole cosmos, according to Dante, ultimately depends on God who, as the ground of all being, exists beyond space and time in the Empyrean. The Empyrean is an immaterial heaven, made up only of the love and metaphysical light which God is. It is in the Empyrean that the angels and the blessed also dwell.
Detailed explanation-4: -The three beasts are allegories of three different sins: the leopard represents lust, the lion pride, and the wolf represents avarice. While Dante goes backward to the forest, he sees a human figure and turns to it for help. Dante, however, cannot distinguish whether it is a man or a shadow.