Dantes Inferno

The Inferno is more than mediocre a fictional story astir(predicate) someone traveling through life. It is actually more like an autobiographical locomote of life through its author, Dante Alighieris. He basically wrote with the personal purpose of save where all of the people he came in contact within his life, go away go when they die. This could be one of three places Hell, Purgatory, or Heaven. He went on to traffic pattern specific, fitting punishments or rewards based on each persons life. Dante accordingly tied this all to playher and do himself a character that walks the good length of the abstracted world.Written in the early 1300s by an angry Dante living in exile, he literally describes a man who has been trapped, and must find a way to escape. He also includes the hidden Renaissances darkness, and the people who are Manipulating. As Dante passes through the depths of hell he begins to see sins that would be punished and tortured in medieval times to the same acts that are displayed in the era of the Renaissance, and yet are treated differently. The Renaissances era that had a lot of influence on Dante and the locomote through hell.Whether they were someone that betrayed him in his political career or the girl that he fell in love with when he was 9 years old, he found a way to integrate them into the Inferno. Its not hard to notice that in the symbols, Dante considers trust and loyalty to be one of the most chief(prenominal) human characteristics. He basically felt this way due to the shew that he was betrayed and exiled away from his beloved homeland, by the pope. It is because of this that he places offenders of breaking these at the bone marrow of hell. Dante was exiled from Florence in 1302 and this is where his feelings that helped structured the story.When he comes out of the dark forest Dante is blocked by the three beasts. The beasts are a lion, a leopard, and wolf. The lion is seen to poses pride, the leopards role is that of impulse and the wolf represents is greed. The three ferocious beasts have three of the seven deadly sins. Canto 3 started the read when Dante comes to himself again and realizes he is lost in a dark, savage, ill forest deep in a valley. He tries all night to find a way out when he comes to the foot of a high gear hill and his way is blocked by three beasts.He thinks hes going to get past the leopard that comes first, but the lion is more fearsome, and the wolf drives him back, despairing, to the dark wood. He then sees a human shape and calls out for help. It is the shade of Virgil, When researched he was the great Roman poet of the time of the emperor Augustus, where he as a poet has learned so much, and Dante begs him for help against the wolf. Virgil tells him that the wolf is too fierce to get by, that she is ravaging all of Italy, and will do so until the person comes who can chase her back to Hell.But Virgil promises to get him out of the dark wood, not by taking him past th e beasts, but by leading him through Hell. Once he has seen those who suffer in Hell, Virgil will lead him up the mountain of Purgatory, where souls become ready for eternal bliss, and then someone else will take over and lead him up to Heaven. Virgil cant go in that respect because, living before Christianity had spread, and he was not a Christian. Dante accepts Virgils guidance through hell, and they set out. The first circle he sees was beings that where not good enough to go to heaven, or bad enough to join the bottom of hell.As the reading continued I realized it also showed that the angles had a choice between heaven and hell, which made it different from anything I have read from the past. Canto 5, is when he first enters the Second Circle, Dante sees Minos, a horrible, snarling demon to whom each soul confesses everything. Minos warns Dante to turn back, but Virgil again asserts that Dantes journey is divinely ordained. Dante hears wailing again. Spirits pass through the ai r like a flock of birds, tormented by Minos they have no hope of rest, and no hope of less pain. One long line of spirits gets Dantes attention, and he asks Virgil who they are.Virgil replies to him, all having died because of love, and Dante is bewildered by pity. Canto 34 is in the deepest depth of Hell, the lowest point in the whole universe. Virgil lets Dante know that he is about to see the being who is the ruler of Hell. Dante looks through the sadness and sees something that looks huge and like a windmill in the distance. The wind is strong, and he has to shelter himself behind Virgil. In the icy plain beneath them the souls are now completely buried in the ice, through which he sees them. When they get closer, Virgil makes Dante come out from behind him and look at Satan.Dante is so frozen and weak he feels neither dead nor alive, but he looks. at that place is the being who was once the fairest angel in Heaven, Lucifer, who rebelled against the one and only God who had mad e him so fair. Who was once beautiful but ugly now from where he sits, he is much large-mindedger than the giants Dante saw at the outer edge of the deepest pits. His head has three faces, one red, one white and yellow, one black. Two big bat wings sprout under each face, and it is the flapping of those wings that made the ice of Cocytus. He weeps tears and blood from each of his six eyes, and in each mouth he chews on a sinner.Virgil having seen everything, they must go. Dante holds tight to Virgil, with his arms around Virgils neck, and Virgil goes right up to Satan and takes hold of his flanks, which are cover with hair. From tuft to tuft he descends to the midpoint of Satans body, and then manages to turn himself upside down and start climbing. They reach a cleft in the rock and in that location Virgil puts Dante down on the edge. Dante looks back, and there are Lucifers legs upside down. Dante is utterly bewildered. Virgil explains that the midpoint of Satans body is the cent er of gravity of the earth.The story also reminds me of Revelations more than just the parity of Rome. It is the same idea of describing others who have live into a different situation or character. Both Authors must have had similar feeling towards the groups, they both had plague and wanted revenge. They describe the groups for who they were as a character that nobody would like. Dante Had made people change their family name, because he had shown a lot about the person to others, just because a relative was in the poem. He needed something to help him relived all the hatred he carried with him self the Poem did not spike me as a comedy but more of a drama.