Analogy of Inferno and Don Quixote

Still, the inhabitants of circle two be doomed to be whirled and whipped around by great gales which reflect their raging lust in murky air which is a symbol of their clouded reason: "As the wings of wintering starlings return them on/in their great wheeling escape valves, just so the blast/wherries these evil souls through time forg cardinal./Here, there, up, down, they whirl and, whirling, broaden/with never a hope of hope to comfort them,/not of release, but even of less pain./As cranes go o'er sounding their harsh cry,/leaving the long streak of their flight in air,/so come these spirits, wailing as they go away" (Alighieri 40-48). In a way, cod Quixote's preoccupation with romance and valiance has put him into a whirl, but he is in a psychological whirl as he loses his grasp on reality and descends into his own realm of knighthood and perspective on things?one where a short, sturdy, wench (as Pancho Sanza calls Dulcinea) becomes the ultimate ideal of delight in and admire to don Quixote.

Francesca and Paolo fell truly in love time they were reading together. As Don Quixote reads his tales of chivalry, so Francesca and Paolo were reading tales of knights, particularly those of Sir Lancelot, "On a day of dalliance we read the create verbally/of Lancelot, how love had mastered him./We were alone with innocence and dim time./ breaking after pause that high old story draw/our eyes together while we blushed and paled;/but it was one low-key passage overthrew/our caution and our hea

de Cervantes Saavedra, M. Don Quixote of La Mancha. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1930.

Therefore, we see that love and the misuse of love has a great deal in common in two Alighieri's Inferno and de Cervantes Saavedra's Don Quixote.

Love in both is an ideal of purity that, if breeched, damns the breecher(s) and sends one into the depths of Hell or the depths of madness. However, we rout out see that both authors treat love, and its misuse, gently because they have grace and empathy with the fact that carnal misdeeds are misdeeds closest to the sweet thoughts and unquestionable feelings of love. This is why it is mentioned in Inferno that Francesca's husband will be sent to the lower depths of Hell for treachery to kin, even though she betrayed her husband and Paolo betrayed Giovani and his wife. In Don Quixote, despite his madness and illusions, Don Quixote is portrayed as a perfect chivalric gentleman, around faithful and respectful as a lover. The pursuit of love, though it diminishes both Don Quixote and Francesca, is never an unworthy pursuit to all author. Nor would Don Quixote or Francesca have it any other way.

Alighieri, D. Inferno. (Canto V). hypertext transfer protocol://www.carthage.edu/departments/english/dante/frames/framesetll.html, 1999, 1-4.

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