*Check dialogue journal for Canto V
*Discuss Canto V
*HW: Answer questions over V (PQE, see below)
1) Explain the symbolic importance of these sinners' punishment.
2) Why do you think Dante the Poet allows Paolo & Francesca to make excuses for their sin?
3) What might George Orwell say about Dante's/Catholicism's punishment of carnal sinners? Based on what you know about _1984_, would he consider lust to be a type of wrongdoing, to be "wrong"? Would he have considered this a just punishment?
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