The Main Three Ideas of Each Book in Dante’s Divine Comedy

There are millions of concepts that people can come up when talking about the Divine Comedy. There are even interpretations of things most people would just pass up including me. However, I have decided to talk about how each book throughout was personified by three main ideas. The three main items start with the three mystical beasts of hell, the three stones steps of purgatory, and ends with the three topic questions of paradise.

The book of hell (Inferno) was a great concept of with hell would consist of, and the depiction of the creature was quite interesting, from to three best to Dis himself. In the dark forest Dante’s meets three beast each representing a certain amount of circles to come. First, was the she-wolf representing “concupiscence (immoderate desires)” (Raffa) for circles 1-4. The she-wolf interpretation of lust, gluttony, avarice and prodigality is seen when reading the book. Looking back the meaning of immoderate desires can be seen in lust. First with the guarding of circle two the minos who was created because of these desires. Next was the souls placed here Francesca and Palo. Francesca presented the she-wolf perfectly, being a she-wolf herself. Francesca after being married acted on a desired to have relations with her husband’s brother. In doing so she causes the death of both him and her. Another note to make is like a she-wolf of physical habits. She knew she would have her prey “Palo” one day, however faith was against her and she was killed by her husband. The next circle and probably the center of the she-wolf meaning were the gluttons. Even the name means over indulgent in some type of activity i.e. immoderate desires. Cerberus, the guardian, was a desire himself to act of consuming so m...

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This one statement shows that Mary expressed so much love that God the Marker chose her to bare his holy son, and allow him the explains Gods love to everyone. In the final part of the book Dante comes face to face with the Divine Creator to which he ends with this one statement, “Already were all my will and my desires turned—as a wheel in equal balance—by The Love that moves the sun and the other stars” (par. 33 143-45). The ending pronouncement stated that everything that lives is turned by the love of the God.

In conclusion, each book presented a type of three that described everything. Inferno used the mystical beasts, purgatory used stage repentance, and paradise with the test questions for Dante. The journey of Dante the pilgrim was hard at the beginning, but at the end everything came into aliment and the story of the Divine Comedy was finally told.