In Dante’s inferno, Satan is shown and described as a three headed monster with long hair. Normally a person or a reader would assume that Satan has only one head, a red skin toned body and long horns, but the one in Dante’s inferno, as mentioned in the book, Satan has 3 heads, red,black and yellow skinned toned and is surrounded by ice. Lucifer has three horrific faces, in where one is looking straight ahead and the others two are looking back over his shoulders and tears running down their faces

The title of this book is Dante’s Inferno and is written by Dante Alighieri. Dante’s Inferno was first published in 1317 and fits into the genre of an epic poem. The setting of this story is mostly hell in the year 1300. The author of this poem has a very moral tone. The two most prominent characters in this poem are Dante and Virgil. Dante is the author and protagonist of the story. Dante, the author, wrote Dante’s Inferno based on events that actually happened in his life, however, the author Dante

novel Inferno by Dan Brown is the third book of his series. The first novel being The Da Vinci Code and the novel before Inferno was Angels and Demons. The book Inferno is full of character twists and cliffhangers from chapter to chapter. The main character Langdon has limited time to figure out riddles and puzzles before a deadly plague is released into the world. Brown does a wonderful job giving the detail of the places he writes about and explaining the setting. The setting of Inferno takes place

Dante focused a lot on Hell throughout his writing. Dante's Inferno describes his journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven guided by the ancient Roman poet Virgil. In Dante’s work, he presents a very conceptualized view of hell that is rooted in Christianity. According to Dante, Hell is a place of punishment, terror and despair, where souls are subjected to eternal punishment for their sins. Dante is horrified by the sights he witnesses in Hell, he describes Hell as a dark and gloomy place, with

In my level of Hell, “Andy’s Inferno” sinners are punished for unforgivably being Duke fans in their first lives which is very similar to that of the first circle of hell, Limbo, punishing the virtuous pagans in The Inferno by Dante Alighieri,. First, Limbo relates to my personal vision of Hell by both containing souls of sinners that were unenlightened to a more powerful source in their first lives when in The Inferno the Poet says, “…for they lacked Baptism’s grace, which is the door of the true

Alighieri is about the character Dante’s journey through the Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso, one that God has allowed him to take. In both the Inferno and Purgatorio there are souls who are being punished for their sins. In the second circle of the inferno and the seventh terrace of purgatorio the sin that most people are tempted by and is the least grave is lust. There are differences in the way Dante chooses to punish the lustful, in the Inferno and in Purgatorio. There is a similarity in the manner

He also places Brunetto Latino, an author he admires in Hell, due to the fact he is gay. The character Dante is incredulous exclaiming “Ser Brunetto, are you here?” (120). Latino is one of two characters throughout Inferno whom Dante refers to as “voi” in Italian, showing his respect for the author (Ciardi, 124). Dante’s placement of Latino shows that even though Dante admires him, he still recognizes that in the eyes of the Catholic church, Latino belongs in Hell

Dante feels differently towards the shades. One of the first time he sympathizes is when he is talking to Paolo and Francesca, in Circle 2, he felt so much sadness that he "swooned away as if I had been dying./And fell, even as a dead body falls" (Inferno IV.141-142) This is one of the few times that Dante faints because of