Alex asked Cameron Macauley:

Who is your favorite fictional couple, and why?

Cameron Macauley Probably Paolo and Francesca from Dante's Inferno. The reason is because of the irony behind their fate: Dante has placed them in Hell as adulterers, but his rendition of their story is entirely sympathetic, as if to say that their punishment is unjust, that love is sacred even if it violates the sanctity of marriage. Dante pitied many people that he met in the Inferno, but Paolo and Francesca stand out as victims of an unjust Divine Order. Oddly, they are together for all eternity--a peculiar way of mitigating their pain.

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