FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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Question
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Hell
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purgatory
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The Paradise
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The Divine Comedy
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Detailed explanation-1: -At the summit of Mount Purgatory is the Earthly Paradise or Garden of Eden. Allegorically, it represents the state of innocence that existed before Adam and Eve fell from grace – the state which Dante’s journey up Mount Purgatory has recaptured.
Detailed explanation-2: -The upper part of the mountain consists of seven terraces, each of which corresponds to one of the seven capital sins. Atop the mountain Dante locates, Eden, the Earthly Paradise, the place where the pilgrim is reunited with Beatrice, the woman who inspired the poem.
Detailed explanation-3: -From The Divine Comedy, what does the mountain of Purgatory represent? The penitent Christian life.
Detailed explanation-4: -In this poem the pilgrim Dante, with Virgil (in blue), pass through hell and then climbs the Mount of Purgatory towards the Earthly Paradise on its summit. The mountain was created when Satan fell from heaven into the earth’s centre. It rises at the opposite pole to the city of Jerusalem.