![]() ![]() The three aforementioned sections in literary terms are known as canticas and total 14,233 lines. ![]() Given its religious significance, it is not surprising that The Divine Comedy is structured as a trinity. Beatrice, who represents Dante’s ideal woman, leads passage through Heaven. The Roman poet Virgil is Pilgrim’s guide through Hell and Purgatory. ![]() Pilgrim’s journey through the realms of the dead lasts from the eve of Good Friday to the Wednesday following Easter in the year 1300. Comedy, considered a base genre, flowed in the opposite direction with tragedy, or at least unhappiness, reaching a happy or optimistic culmination. Traditional tragedies had plotlines that began with an optimistic, or positive, event but ended in sadness, death, or a downtrodden existence. Rather, the poem is a “comedy” in that it is of the classical style that existed in partnership with tragedy. ![]() The title, The Divine Comedy, is not an implication that the poem is humorous in nature. It is a spiritual journey expounding the evils of sin through the first-person narration of the aptly named main character, Dante the Pilgrim. In this three-part epic poem, Dante Alighieri takes his readers on a pilgrimage to Heaven via journeys first through Hell and Purgatory. ![]()
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