Who Is The She-Wolf In Dante's Inferno

The leopard, lion, and the she-wolf are meant to symbolize the three major types of sins. The leopard represents fraudulence, the lion symbolizes violence, and the she-wolf represents immoderation. The animal that seems to pose the greatest problem for Dante is the she-wolf. Even though Dante states that it was the leopard that caused him “more than once she me turn about to go back down”, it was the sight of the she-wolf that made Dante loose all hope as he thought at first sight, “Then, a grim she-wolf -whose leanness seemed to compress/ All the worlds cravings, that had made miserable such multitudes; she put such heaviness into my spirit, I lost hope of the crest.”(Cantos1 line36-41)
The Inferno was written in Italian vernacular instead of the most common use of latin literature. Dante wrote in Italian vernacular …show more content…
Beatrice the last woman to give the indirect news from the Virgin Mary acts as Dante's spiritual guide. She has a personal attraction to Dante, which further inspires her to help him. Saint Lucy is a historically found in biblical time form when she died as a martyr, in which the Virgin Mary also redeemed Beatrice's soul from Hell into Heaven. The Virgin Mary, like Saint Lucy, is another Christian allusion. Virgin Mary is the only woman who can change the fate of your afterlife in heaven. Mary is significant because she sent Saint Lucy to tell Beatrice to seek Virgil and speak on Dante's behalf so that Virgil can help Dante complete his path of righteousness.
Dante created the "neutral angels" because they symbolize the cowards that were unwilling to choose a side between the Lord or Satan. This is a metaphor for his stance against the Italian government from when they rejected him. Now he is not afraid to say what he believes for an allegiance he is willing to stand by, in which he believes that he will not be forgotten unlike the neutral angels chasing after a blank