In the passage regarding the Dame Fortune, Dante says that no one can effect the process of the decisions of people's fate. In the example, the dame of Fortune is the decider of other’s fate and fortune. Dante seems to say that no human will see where and how she decides the fate and fortune of others. No mortal could convince her to change her mind about her decisions and she will rule her kingdom just as well as the other gods, and do it day by day, taking it one step at a time. In this metaphor, the Dame Fortune herslef represents God and how God makes decisions about our fate. Dante is a strong believer in God deciding everyone's fate, and his opinion and beliefs are present in ths passage. In this work, Dante seems to refer only to fate and very little to free will where as Sophocles seems to say in the Oedipus cycle that people can change their fate with free will but fate is still present in people's lives.
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