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Count Henryk, a conflicted Byronic poet, finds himself leading his fellow aristocrats in defense of the Holy Trinity castle against revolutionary forces professing democratic and atheist ideals. So devoted is he to ideal beauty that he neglects his wife and son, and is led to near destruction by Poetry Incarnate. Krasiński's masterwork of Polish Romanticism effectively depicted class struggle before Marx coined the term, exploring the conflict between aristocracy and democracy through a title inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy — a human comedy taking place in the absence of divine intervention.