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==Plot==
The main plot of the work revolves around the journey through Siberia undertaken by the titular character, a youth named Anhelli, and his guide Shaman, leader of a Siberian tribe. Anhelli was chosen by Shaman from Polish exiles as the redeemer because of his "purity and sinlessness" and he was to be subjected to an initiation by taking part in a journey to see the suffering of the nation<ref>{{Cite web |title=Anhelli - charakterystyka - Juliusz Słowacki |url=https://poezja.org/wz/interpretacja/5264/Anhelli_charakterystyka |access-date=2023-07-26 |website=poezja.org |language=pl}}</ref>. Siberia is portrayed in Słowacki's poem as "white hell" for Polish exiles, a place of execution and spiritual downfall. The main characters wander through various places from deserts and abandoned graveyards through forests to the dark mines of Siberia. Their journey is reminiscent of [[Divine Comedy|Dante's journey through hell]] where the main protagonist, accompanied by [[Virgil]], crosses the circles of hell meeting the [[Damnation|damned]] along the way<ref>{{Cite web |title=Anhelli - streszczenie - Juliusz Słowacki |url=https://poezja.org/wz/interpretacja/5255/Anhelli_streszczenie |access-date=2023-07-26 |website=poezja.org |language=pl}}</ref>. Polish exiles are depicted as travelling across a deserted, hostile and hellish country, working hard in mines, suffering in cold dungeons with shackles on their legs and enduring beatings and humiliation. Their children are starving and are subjected to forced [[Russification]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=88Fh3scR-U0C&q=anhelli+by+juliusz+s%C5%82owacki+prose+poem&pg=PA62 |title=Literature in Exile of East and Central Europe |isbn=9781433104909 |access-date=30 April 2020|last1=Gutthy |first1=Agnieszka |year=2009 }}</ref>
Anhelli and Shaman's journey starts from the House of Exiles and was supposed to end there as well. However, Shaman's death resulting from a fight among the exiles forces Anhelli to embark on another journey to a faraway desert in the north where he dwells in a hut carved out from ice. Upon the death of Ellenai, a [[penitence|penitent]] and Anhelli's exiled companion, he is visited by two angels heralding the end of the world as well as his own death. Soon after, he also passes away and is not awakened by the call of the armoured Knight to resurrect and take revenge on the oppressors.
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