FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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Question
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Love is an ennobling force that offers a chance for salvation.
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Love is problematic for Dante, because Beatrice is considered impure.
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Love has little to do with spirituality.
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Love obscures all possibility for salvation.
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Detailed explanation-1: -On the one hand, love is related to Dante’s idea of God, and to the way in which human beings ought, for Dante, to relate to each other in order to merit salvation. On the other hand, love is also seen as a desire for things or people in the world.
Detailed explanation-2: -Throughout Dante’s works Beatrice is a religious figure rather than an object of human love, and although her appearances in Inferno are scarce, her divine love serves as the pilgrim’s pathway to God and salvation.
Detailed explanation-3: -But, the lovers are damned because they will not change, and because they will never cease to love, they can never be redeemed. Dante represents this fact metaphorically by placing Paolo close to Francesca and by having the two of them being buffeted about together through this circle of Hell for eternity.
Detailed explanation-4: -Today, we know that Dante’s love for Beatrice was real. She represented the ideal of beauty and grace, but was also a real woman. Beatrice appeared to Dante as the woman/angel that guides him through Paradise, but also remained a real woman who made his heart beat in the streets of Florence.