“I remember them all,” said Will with the unspeakable content in his soul of feeling that he was in the presence of a creature worthy to be perfectly loved. I think his own feelings at that moment were perfect, for we mortals have our divine moments when love is satisfied in the completeness of the beloved object.
He really is Dante right now.
Dorothea is implicitly Beatrice in the "Divine Comedy", but Eliot has cast her also, of course, as St. Teresa; and she gives her echoes of Eve (both the Biblical Eve and Milton's).
