The Inferno to me represented people living this “hellish” life and all of the struggles that come with it. Polo says how we live in this inferno every day and how we form it by being together. This shows how this pessimistic attitude spreads so rapidly and that by “being together” this inferno gets worse. He says one way to escape suffering from it is by just accepting it. Accepting that this life will not get any better; it’s just hell on earth and after a while it just becomes natural. Then he goes on and says another, more difficult, way of escaping it is by recognizing who and what are not inferno, and to give them space. At first this confused me but what I think he is saying is that you can’t be around the people who aren’t suffering because they will only drive you harder into the ground and make you feel the inferno even more so.
I personally didn’t like how this novel ended. I thought Polo’s intent was to help Khan with his empire and I feel all he did was tell him that there was no hope. I could be taking this section wrong and if so please let me know, because as of now I’m quite disappointed. Although I am one to always want the fairytale ending, I told myself in the beginning I probably wouldn’t get it due to the un-novelness of this novel. However, I didn’t expect this. I feel like this ending isn’t an ending, it just leaves you wanting more. Maybe the reason has to do with the cyclicality that we talked about in class and if there’s an end it doesn’t follow the rules of a cycle. Thoughts to help me appreciate this text..?
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