Dante’s Divine Comedy suggests many tools of character. Love and choice are two tools of character that I will discuss in this paper. Love and choice will increase our chances of progressing toward liberation and union with each other and our source. Essentially, these traits have to do with the courage to hope. It is easier to believe that we can not change and that our circumstances or fate determine our destiny. People tend to give up before they start. It hurts to give something our best effort only to fail. We are pessimistic an ....