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“relinquish All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here”

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...one of the greatest works in literature. The poet’s story of his journey through the Inferno, Purgatory and finally Paradise has been read as everything from a pure adventure story to the most intense metaphysical speculation on human nature one can imagine. This paper considers the following quote with regard to the poem: Dante’s Divine Comedy was one of the lights that led the West out of the Dark Ages and towards the light of the Renaissance.
Discussion
Before we can consider Dante, we need to know a bit of history. The Dark Ages is the term given to the period in history between the collapse of Roman control of Europe in the 5th century to about the 11th Century (History of the Dark Ages, 2005). Western Europe was conquered repeatedly by Germanic tribes, and the culture remained primitive with virtually no machinery of government extant (History of the Dark Ages, 2005). Politics was local, there was little or no commerce, and the peasants became bound to the land and dependent...

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