The meaning of life__reflections on Divine Comedy (III)
"City of woe, everlasting pain, and lost soul", these are the situations in the hell described by the poet. Though God gave the choice of freedom and love, these people refused to make their choices or refused to accept God's touch by giving their believes to God, so they will remain in the hell with pain or no hope after death and the judgement by God.
The inscription does touch the core of human living, and the question of "Who Am I?". It is important, because it is a question we human have been searching for answers since we were born thousands of years ago. What is the meaning of life? To be an hero, to be helpful to the society, to look for the truth... we have many purposes in the reality, but in the end, what for? What is driving human to evolve to the future? The inscription gives us one solution: to believe in God, to give yourself to God; virtue itself is not enough, and believing God is the only way to give you the freedom and hope to live, before and after death. It's one of the world views that affect many people, but I reserve my doubts.
However, I think the Divine comedies is a wonderful work to show us the situations of real human life, where the poet characterized all kinds of people in the world, and led us think about ourselves, who we are, what we live for.
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