i have really been enjoying learning about the canto's of hell. i think that all of the presentations have been really interesting and informative. the style of studying Dante's inferno is so much more enjoyable than what i have heard from in other classes. i find it to be very visually stimulating and interesting. i particularly thought canto one, or limbo, to be really interesting. i always thought that those who simply didn't believe in god simply went to purgatory. i thought it strange that it was something bad enough to go to hell for. it also shocked me how close that is to many people's lives. i have heard the story of feeling lost and without hope so many times that its just interesting that that is the punishment, forced to live the life that so many on earth are already living.
in learning about Dante's inferno i found it strange that committing suicide was deeper in hell than murder. i thought the punishments for both these cantos to be really creative. i thought it to be particularly symbolic that the murderers burned in the blood that they shed. i also thought the tree idea to be symbolic to the suicides. i also thought it to be a bit extreme because of the motives of those who choose that path. those two cantos seemed particularly intriguing to me.
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