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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