Dantes Inferno1
In his poem, the Inferno, Dante mentions many well know people. Dante mentions such people as Pope Anastasius, Alexander the great, Cleopatra, and many others. The poem is about Dante who has died, and upon reaching the afterlife, he was stopped short of heaven by three beasts. When Dante flees the beasts, Virgil appears. Virgil states that he is there to take Dante to heaven, but it will be a long trip through hell. Virgil tells Dante that the only way to heaven is to follow him. Dante follows, and the majority of the poem is a very descriptive narrative of what Dante sees and encounters. Throughout his journey, Dante sees and encounters people he had known or read about in life. These are all people who had sinned in life and now in death, are punished eternally. Dante's version of hell is that people will have their sin turned against them. In many instances, Dante points out what the sin of the person was, and describes in detail, how they are being punished in hell. In Canto III, The Vestibule of Hell, Dante talks about the Opportunists. Souls who in life never took a side, but instead were on the side where they themselves would gain the mo
Dante, having written this book based on many of the known facts of his time, did a very good job of interpreting the fact about the people who he was around. Each level dealt with a different sin, and as the level increased, so to did the severity of the sin and in turn, the severity of the punishment. My only regret is that I had to have it read by a deadline, and that did not give me the chance to fully understand what message Dante was trying to convey. He mentions many of the great leaders, empire builders, and church patrons. I consider the levels of hell to be our levels of punishment that range from a month or so in jail, to the death penalty. Religion is a major part of Inferno. Dante managed to take what was then all myth and legend, and turn it into something real for people to read. By doing this, Dante has almost written a history book. We allow God to have control over our lives, nobody forces us to believe, we just choose to believe. However, the last level, or circle of hell, number nine is equal to the death penalty. The Inferno is a fictional book, Dante was never in hell, and he never saw the things he wrote about. However I do know that for having been written in the 1300's, the book spoke of many things that are true today. Dante, who was a firm believer of God, is on his was to heaven. He is neither in hell, nor out of it, as in life he was neither for good nor evil.
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