Life after Death

What happens after getting out of the Inferno? Well in the gate it specifies that there is no going out by saying in its gate, “ABANDON ALL HOPE, WHO ENTER HERE.” Canto III line 9. This says that after going through there is no going back. Besides, it clearly specifies many times that every punishment is eternal. But there was an exception for Dante who had lost his path. He had to go all through hell so he could go out into the Paradise. As Dante goes through the Inferno he witnesses all of the brutal punishments that are implied on the sinners. You know that after seeing all of this cruelty, Dante had to change in some way. “I did not die, and I was not alive; think for yourself, if you have any wit, that I became, deprived of life and death.” Canto XXXIV lines 25-28. As Dante saw the giant Lucifer he had ended his way through the Inferno. It is important to notice how he uses speaks in first person a lot in those last parts also as he uses the word “became” which means changing or evolving. After he is able to leave the Inferno, he describes it with these words: “Until I saw, through a round opening, some of those things of beauty Heaven bears. It was from there that we emerged, to see—once more—the stars.” Canto XXXIV lines 136-139. They finally exit the Inferno and are impacted by seeing the stars, which are beautiful, something they hadn’t seen since they entered that dark forest. If we continue reading the divine comedy, Virgil would take Dante to the opposite of the Inferno, the Paradise for him to meet with his love Beatrice.