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The Argument Of Dante's Inferno

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Argument of Dante’s Inferno Throughout the story of Dante’s Inferno his travels through Hell to search for God was interrupted by the spirits and the nine levels of Hell. In the book Dante’s Inferno, Dante goes on a journey through the levels of Hell. In the book as Dante travels through the levels of Hell and his anger increases as the journey goes on. Dante shows his anger to the spirits and says “ master, truly I should like to see that spirit pickled in this swill”(Dante 63.50-51). Dante shows how he starts to get impatient with the spirits in the way that he speaks to them and reacts to the things they say. At one point of the book he gets mad at one of the spirits and states “my master: stare a little longer, he said, and I will quarrel

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