Spring Break, Seven Cantos, Triple Shifts, And Fig Bars.... -Abbigayle Ebling
I wish I had done this a lot sooner than Sunday, but I guess I will just have to admit that I am way more behind in my life than I care to admit. I wonder what ring that would put me in according to Dante? Anyhow, I will be sitting here eating my strawberry fig bars and typing away...
I find this book to be really intriguing, as it keeps a steady pace and overall kept me enthralled. Right away, Cantos One had me hooked with, "...for I have wandered from the straight and true." (3) I mean, I knew this book is basically a really complicated trip to Hell, but I was unsure what depiction of such a place that I was going to get and the journey thereof. I was always avid of ancient history, philosophers, and the gods and goddesses, and although I used to be against them completely, as I got older, the more fascinated of them I became. From there, it branched out to other aspects of the world as it once had been, which later led to my love of art and structure... but that's monologuing, and nobody wants that, so let me just jump right into my point.
I was really drawn into Cantos Five, as if I were going to be damned to Hell for something, I would probably be sent because love was my weakness. Afterall, there is no better feeling than to love and be loved in return. (Side note, no... I do not mean the adulterous kind that Cantos Five is soaked in. I am just trying to find the part of this book that I relate with the most so that my thoughts can maintain an organized feel... I actually had a super hard time deciding what to blog about, as each Cantos had my full attention.) So, those who have the lust of the flesh are totured in an area of Hell that has strong winds and fierce storms, the place for those "who made their reason subject to desire." (39) Those people, who day after day suffered for their deeds on earth, who were they? And was every single person there by human morals as guilty as the next? I mean, I can understand it for those who repetatively gave their bodies away so much that they "altered 'lust' and 'just'," (56) but what about those who made the mistake of such only once and it brought about their death like the story mentioned in 121-142? After all, you have this girl who got a little too curious while reading about romance that she gave in to it with the boy she was with, and they were hesitant! So, it's not even like it was a dirty or horrific ordeal, it was something they were almost meek about. I mean, it's not like it was a scene from Fifty Shades of Grey. (which I have not seen. I promise.)
I'm not God, so I do not see all sin equally, although this book was not written by God, and yet it has a way of portraying that very same aspect as you go through the different rings as you make it to a new Cantos. As someone who has seen what it is like to be lusted, I can understand THOSE people going to this ring, although people who fall into something meek or innocent... I can't really comprehend it. Although, I am not the one who decides what is just, so my opinion does not change fate... and sometimes, it ends with the fact that "love led us to one death." (106)
I hope they come back to this ideology as the rest of the book unfolds, as I would like to more of why it is the way it is as far as depiction... but for now, that's all from me.
P.S. I commented on the blog posts of Zelda Peach and Will Brady.
I find this book to be really intriguing, as it keeps a steady pace and overall kept me enthralled. Right away, Cantos One had me hooked with, "...for I have wandered from the straight and true." (3) I mean, I knew this book is basically a really complicated trip to Hell, but I was unsure what depiction of such a place that I was going to get and the journey thereof. I was always avid of ancient history, philosophers, and the gods and goddesses, and although I used to be against them completely, as I got older, the more fascinated of them I became. From there, it branched out to other aspects of the world as it once had been, which later led to my love of art and structure... but that's monologuing, and nobody wants that, so let me just jump right into my point.
I was really drawn into Cantos Five, as if I were going to be damned to Hell for something, I would probably be sent because love was my weakness. Afterall, there is no better feeling than to love and be loved in return. (Side note, no... I do not mean the adulterous kind that Cantos Five is soaked in. I am just trying to find the part of this book that I relate with the most so that my thoughts can maintain an organized feel... I actually had a super hard time deciding what to blog about, as each Cantos had my full attention.) So, those who have the lust of the flesh are totured in an area of Hell that has strong winds and fierce storms, the place for those "who made their reason subject to desire." (39) Those people, who day after day suffered for their deeds on earth, who were they? And was every single person there by human morals as guilty as the next? I mean, I can understand it for those who repetatively gave their bodies away so much that they "altered 'lust' and 'just'," (56) but what about those who made the mistake of such only once and it brought about their death like the story mentioned in 121-142? After all, you have this girl who got a little too curious while reading about romance that she gave in to it with the boy she was with, and they were hesitant! So, it's not even like it was a dirty or horrific ordeal, it was something they were almost meek about. I mean, it's not like it was a scene from Fifty Shades of Grey. (which I have not seen. I promise.)
I'm not God, so I do not see all sin equally, although this book was not written by God, and yet it has a way of portraying that very same aspect as you go through the different rings as you make it to a new Cantos. As someone who has seen what it is like to be lusted, I can understand THOSE people going to this ring, although people who fall into something meek or innocent... I can't really comprehend it. Although, I am not the one who decides what is just, so my opinion does not change fate... and sometimes, it ends with the fact that "love led us to one death." (106)
I hope they come back to this ideology as the rest of the book unfolds, as I would like to more of why it is the way it is as far as depiction... but for now, that's all from me.
P.S. I commented on the blog posts of Zelda Peach and Will Brady.
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