In Canto Five, at the introduction of Paolo and Francesca, I was surprised at how much Dante pitied them as they recounted back their death story and lustful action. On the one hand, I think it goes to show the understanding shown on Dante's part, of human emotion and sin nature. On the other hand, I think it communicated a great lack in depicting the depravity of human nature, especially with the level of hell Paolo and Francesca ended up being more 'mild.' (Wow, I sound so heartless right now! Forgive.) I think this suggests severity of sin determining placement in eternity which does not line up with the Gospel message very well in my opinion.
I commented on Daniel's and Dallas'!
I agree with this and see your point with it not lining up with the truths we know in the Gospel. It is bizarre in my opinion that there are different levels of hell depending on how sinful/bad you are.
ReplyDeleteGirl you keep beating me to my posts!! This is exactly what I was gonna talk about. I totally understand where Dante is coming from in having pity for the lovers and I personally wanted Canto V to keep going cause I was like, "wait I want more backstory!" But yeah, having different levels of Hell does seem off. Does the Bible specifically mention how Hell will be or. . . can we be like yeah let's go with this descending ring thing?
ReplyDeleteI agree that the levels of hell don't line up with the gospel. If Hell is being seperated from God for eternity, how can there be levels of separation. Separation is separation and any separation is too much.
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