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It is necessary that Dante travel through all of hell with his eyes and ears wide open. He is pushed and pulled along by his guide Virgil through all of the circles, and must encounter a shade in each level. T his says a lot about what this journey means for Dante, insofar as he must experience what hell is first hand and thereby come to salvation. I really like this idea that one cannot know true salvation unless they know utter desecration. Through experience our moral compass is adjusted and refined. Dante cannot know of the ultimate good unless he can discern what the blackest of evil is, how much more beautiful does that make the good of God? As much as a shame it seems at times to have to experience tragedy to see beauty in life, it is the one cycle that keeps humanity grounded. Is it possible to know absolute bliss if one has never experienced pain, or rather is it possible in our current human state to know pleasure if there is not the burn of pain? With the fall of