Regarding Inferno couple things really stood out to me as intriguing.
I liked his illustration with the three beasts that follow Dante and keep him on his path of destruction. The leopard, the lion and the she-wolf, i believe these vicious animals are demons ensuring that his sole is lost and he has no way to regain it. Until intervention from the gods comes.
Something more notable that really interested me and concerned me was in Cantro IV when Dante and his guide were in the very begging of hell after they crossed on the boat. Pg 704, lines 25-42. But the biggest thing about it all was that the little children where there. I understand the men and women but the children? If this is a work based on Christianity as the main religion then why are little children in hell? Because Jesus says many times that children are dear to him. To let all children near him for he loves them. This is just one thing that really vexed me during the reading.
Next, I didn't understand why the one sector of hell where the "hog" was talking with Dante and his guide. Where the man knew him but Dante didn't recall him. After they had said all that they needed, the man in hell's eyes glazed over into blindness until the second coming of the Lord. I couldn't wrap my mind around why he and the people in that part of hell were forced to wit like that, whereas the sectors before and after were not blindly waiting. I understand that the different circles and places in those circles even have different punishments. Is was just confusing to me.
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