Redemption In Dante's The Devine Comedy

Dante has shown the process of redemption through the course of his writings of The Devine Comedy. This is a natural process that he has taken the time to work thought and explain thorough his description of a trip venturing through the areas of Hell, Purgatory, and finally Paradise. The works show the effects of life on a person and what can be achieved if they focus on reaching up to return to God through their life.
Life has it tendency to bog us down and disrupt our trip back to God with all of the distractions and opportunities for us to sin. Dante begins his writing and journey as he is lost in a dark forest. He is wandering along in the dark and is seeking for a way to get up onto the top of a hill to be back out in the light. Dante decides that the fastest way to achieve this would to be leave the valley bottom that he is in and climb up the steep hills surrounding him and get onto one of the peaks and out of the dark forest. As soon as he begins this he is confronted with three beasts that chase him back to the darkness at the bottom of the valley and into the darkness. These three beasts, a leopard, a lion, and a wolf, are representations of sins that keep us in darkness. This is a great comparison to the truth of the …show more content…
He has made it through the challenges of life and he is at the point of being able to learn about life with God and what is found in the realms of heaven. At the beginning Beatrice is able to look straight into the light and Dante tries it for a second. He is not totally prepared and looks away after a brief moment. They discuss the moon and the different cosmos. He is taught about the variations that exist and how there is correlation to the truth of many degrees of glory. The voyage has brought Dante to know more about all of the expectations that the Lord has for his people and that they are able to obtain salvation through life and the love of god with