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Running Head: DANTE’S INFERNO

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DANTE’S INFERNO
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Dante Alighieri is one of the most influential creative writers that have ever existed on
earth. The Italian poet-writer who excelled in writing poems concerning spiritual and religious
matters died in the year 1321. However, Dante’s works still arouse concerns from modern life
with people trying to understand what precisely the poem portrayed. According to Christian
beliefs, God created people with a soul that cannot die even if the body losses life. Dante focused
on writing poems about life after death and painted a picture of how life looks like after someone
dies. Inferno was the first part of Dante’s 14th-century epic poem known as divine comedy. Other
elements in the poem include; Purgatorio and Paradiso. Inferno narrates Dante’s title character
journey through the nine circles of the Christian vision of Hell with Virgil. This paper aims at
discussing religious symbols, ironic punishment, and Dante’s explanation on how the Hell
appears.
Religious Symbols
The Use of Numbers
The first and most used symbol in Dante’s work is the “Number Three Symbol.” The
emblem appears more often in Dante’s poem, indicating that it has a significant meaning in
explaining Dante’s work. Although other numbers got applied, but number three appears most.
In Christianity, three is a crucial number that explains significant issues in the Christian religion.
Jesus died for three days, and resurrected, three important men in Christianity were Abraham,
Isaac, Jacob, and God is explained as which was, which...