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Cancel Save. Fan Feed 1 Limbo 2 Lust 3 Treachery. While living together, Paolo and Francesca fell in love. Unfortunately, the brother discovered their affair and killed the two lovers, condemning his brother and his wife to an eternity in Hell. Paolo and Francesca can be finally together and free to live their love but they have to go through eternal suffering.
In this Canto, Dante uncommonly employs a sweet, romantic and poetic language. The tercets are characterised by a slow rhythm that creates emphasis and pathos to the story. The readers are capable of creating an emotional connection with the characters and cannot help identifying themselves with the pain and sorrow these two star-crossed lovers have to go through every day to be together.
Analogous to the storm which drags and sweeps the powerless soul, passion and lust can take control of the body and make it helpless to its needs. Adultery is the least sinful of sins as this is one of the first circles we are introduced to that contains a punishment. What is seen as one of the worst acts of betrayal on earth, is given on of the most lenient divine punishments in hell. Hi Kimberly! This was a very beautiful analysis of the text.
I really loved the comparison of the punishment of an eternal storm in The Second Circle of Hell to the tumultuous whirlwind of a lustful romance on Earth. I too believed that adultry was a form of betrayal, but Dante does not seem to view adultry as such.
I am also rather surprised that he placed adultry and lustfulness so early on in the circles of hell!
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