Reaction Paper On Dante's Divine Comedy

I have read, Dante’s Divine Comedy by the author Dante Alighieri. The book is about Dante our main character, who has been led on a path through Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise. At the beginning of his journey he met the Roman poet Virgil who represented the pinnacle of human reason to Dante. The story is basically a moral poem that’s supposed to make you think about your own morals. Dante takes us on a journey on what will happen if we don’t live a life to God, showing us where we will end up and how life will be after we die. This book may be hard to read because of the old English used in the translated version but I’m going to argue about why everyone needs to read this book, Christian or not.

First of all the book is a great moral compass for most people that don’t know how to act. The book is

With the whole Inferno, Purgatory and Heaven sequences ties up perfectly with each other. Dante Alighieri weaved in many things from his life into the book, Dante had been exiled during his life and many believe he has used that part in his life while writing this book. In the book you read a lot about Inferno and Purgatory, in these parts you read about the punishments of several sins like treachery and similar things, this can be related to one part in his life when he had joined a group called the “the White Guelphs” where they had tried to overthrow a government but failed several times thanks to treachery. The book is very hard to read but you feel a weird thrill while reading it, whenever they enter a new Circle in Hell and you read about the gruesome punishments I at least felt like that could happen to me(not that I believe in that stuff). Following Dante’s ascension through Purgatory with Virgil was interesting. Here just like in Purgatory you would read about what the sinners had to do to gain access into Heaven. All very much interesting even for a Atheist or