After finishing all of the tragic hero presentations, we have begun talking about our next subject; Dante's Inferno. Inferno, as far as I know so far, is on man's interpretation of Hell. The author, Dante Alighieri, describes what it takes to enter Hell and what one experiences in it. He says that Hell contains nine circles that are assigned to someone according to their sins. I predict that this book will be incredibly though-provoking and dark at the same time. There are lots of ideas that every one seems to have about Hell, and this may enforce or contradict them.
When someone says the word Hell, most peoples minds shift to an image of red, fiery, wasteland. The title, Dante's Inferno, would suggest that the book may hold true to this image. Perhaps it is because of this book that society imagines Hell like this. The nine circles are: limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud, treachery. These nine "sins" or "crimes" are clearly bad things, yet Dante chose them as the worst of any.
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