Salvation:The Key To The Doors Of Confusion.

While reading Dantes Inferno we come across two different Dante’s, the narrator (the poet) and the actual character that travels through the Inferno. Dante the poet uses the character as a metaphor of the journey that every human being must overcome in order to reach God's salvation. "When I had journeyed half of our life’s way I found myself within a shadowed forest for I had lost the path that does not stray" (I. 1-3). The fact that Dante writes this quote can mean that every human being has the correct path they have to take although some may get lost. We can also think of this as if Dante had written in plural meaning that he is not only talking about himself but all of humanity. Through the characters journey into the circles of Hell, Dante the character must learn to stop feeling pity and sorry for the people that are in Hell because for some reason those deserve to be there. At the end journey through Hell Dante achieves the level of moral standards in order to begin his new journey to God’s salvation.

The ultimate proof of Dante is reflected at the end of Inferno “My guide and I came on that hidden road to make our way back into the bright world and with no care for any rest, we climbed-he first, I following-until I saw, through a round opening, some of those things of beauty Heaven bears. It was from there that we emerged, to see-once-the stars. ” (XXIV. 133-139), with this quote we see how he found his lost path that was not really lost but was in the shadows, he saw again what he already knew the beauty of Heaven (it was not the first time he had seen it), it states that Dante also sees the stars which means guidance and illumination. Dante was confused but know by this we see that he learned and found his path to God salvation.

The path that Dante follows is the same as humanity so if I were to continue reading Inferno I would infer that as long as humanity has a clear vision of the right path they will find Gods salvation even in the darkest places of Hell.