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> he never has to struggle or adapt, he only learns and understands Learning and understanding is the struggle. Dante is tormented by a number of fears and dou
by teamonkey 4y ago
> he never has to struggle or adapt, he only learns and understands
Learning and understanding is the struggle. Dante is tormented by a number of fears and doubts and he doesn't know how to deal with them. His journey into hell and heaven highlight aspects of these and helps him come to terms with them, one by one. The book ends with him having resolved that struggle, he could only see the face of god after reaching clarity.
There are a lot of ways you can interpret the book, but it's fundamentally a quest to find inner peace.
- tsimionescu 4y agoSure, I can take that argument. But I still don't see any argument that makes the story run in a circle, any way to argue he returns at the end to where he begun, but changed, with some new insight.
- PuppyTailWags 4y agoBy this logic any reaction to any challenging events is equivalent to overcoming in a story structure. I think this fits into stretching the original framework into meaninglessness.