Charon's warning can be read not merely as a declaration of hopelessness but as the belief structure of damned souls: they believe God has abandoned them.
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Abandonment
Charon's warning can be read not merely as a declaration of hopelessness but as the belief structure of damned souls: they believe God has abandoned them.
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"And here advancing towards us in a boat an aged man, his hair was white with years, was shouting, woe to you, corrupted souls...."
"Well, so Charon doesn't want to take Dante across because Dante is still living. But when Virgil says to him, Hey, let us pass...."
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Dante is not offering a church-approved tour of the afterlife.
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