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... Purgatory, Dante exposes the concept of freewill in the universe, as he is necessarily positioned at the centre between the Inferno and Paradise. Immediately, Dante opens his Divine Comedy with carefully chosen words to indicate something special regarding his future journey. "Midway this way of life we're bound upon, I woke to find myself in a dark wood, where the right road was wholly lost and gone" (Inferno I, 1-3). Dante finds himself in a moment of crisis as, at the midpoint of his life, he is now venturing on a journey which will undoubtedly include both good aspects, and it's opposite. He faces the moment in which one must choose the good and reject its alternative. Interestingly, it is exactly half way along Dante's ascent up Mount Purgatory that he turns to Virgil, who is asked to explain the nature of Purgatory. It is here, in Canto XVII, that ...