Dante

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evil. It is almost like a small lie that can grow and grow to ultimately consume your life. In its content, the Inferno also shows the reader what a sin is really like by creating a symbolic punishment which mirrors the actual sin. Hell is a place "where penalties are paid by those who, sowing discord, earned Hell’s wages." For example, in canto V lines 31-45, writes, "[Referring to those who lusted] I came to a place where no light shown at all, bellowing like the sea racked by a tempest, when warring winds attack it from both sides. The infernal storm, eternal in its rage, sweeps down and drives the spirits with its blast: it whirls them, lashing them with punishment… those who make reason slave to appetite… now here, then there, and up and down, it drives them with never any hope to comfort them- hope not of rest but even of suffering less." This is extremely symbolic of lust. A lustful person is swept along in a "whirlwind" of feeling without thought or reason in mental ...

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