The book begins with Dante becoming lost in a wood explained by the quotation, “Midway on our life\'s journey, I found myself In dark woods, the right road lost.” He begins this way in the book because in his life, he feels he strays from personal salvation. The book becomes a way for Dante to communicate his personal journey from being on the lost road to finding his path to Paradisio.

One of the first instances that Dante conveys his sorrow for sinners, is the story of a woman named Franceska. She tells of how her and a lover read the story of Lancelot an

Dante’s change throughout his journey through the Inferno is clearly shown by his sorrow for the two lovers, then his disgust and rejection of Alberigo, and then finally his thrust out of the Inferno to continue on his way to Paradisio. This is clearly not a mere story, but a parallel of Dante and his personal pursuit of salvation because of the style he wrote the book in. The whole book is obviously his personal opinion, and a way to reassure himself that he is on the correct path to salvation.

d Guinevere and decided to embrace each other with a kiss much as those two had, only for both of them to be murdered by her husband before they could repent their sins. Dante expresses his grief by stating, “When the mind returned, which closed itself before the pity of these two kinsfolk, that had all confounded me with sadness, new torments and new tormented souls I see around me wherever I move, and howsoever I turn, and wherever I gaze.” He is sad for the two lovers, which is understandable to the reader by the fact that their sin was not a blasphemous act or outrageous disobe

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