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While St. Augustine’s autobiography is not comparable to the poetic dream vision of Inferno, the theological background of the two works is nearly identical. Dante the character of Inferno, like Augustine in Confessions, is a homo viator, a spiritual wanderer on earth; Dante the poet believes that the soul’s sinful state leads to retribution in Hell. The significance of both works benefit in understanding the journeys of man in his quest for a more spiritual association, the faults Dante and Augustine encountered and the precise path to be chosen between depths of misapprehension. The perspectives of these works are communicated the way they are anticipated. In Saint Augustine’s Confessions, his story of transformation is written in the first person perspective. The readers experience the long and difficult journey Saint Augustine encounters through the first person narrative. Similarly Dante in Inferno, conveys what he experiences through his journey through Hell in the first person perspective. Both works through their first person narrative give a distinct understanding of what ...

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