Dante without a doubt has changed after walking through the inferno, watching the sinners’ punishment is enough for him to change, not to mention seeing Lucifer. If we do close reading on this text in canto 34:
I raised my eyes, believing I should see
the half of Lucifer that I had left;
instead I saw him with his legs turned up;
and if I then became perplexed, do let
the ignorant be judges-those who can
not understand what point I had just crossed.
We are able to see his fear of hell and how now he is determine not to come back. He states that he was once ignorant and confused (like we the readers are), but having that experience is enough to say that he now understands what he has to do and how to acting thought the remaining of his life: to never come back. Dante hopes to in light us with his knowledge for us not to be confused or ignorant like he once was, but for us to understands how he now understands himself.
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