The Divine Comedy - Inferno

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The Divine Comedy - Inferno

The epic poem Divine Comedy (La Divina Comedia ) by Dante Alighieri is one of the important works in the world of literature because of its extensive use of allegorical and symbolical images of literary works related to the notion of the Christian view of the afterlife . The Comedy is divided into three parts or cantos : Inferno , Purgatorio , and Paradiso . The poem narrates in first person , the journey of the author himself as he travels to hell , purgatory , and heaven in search

of Beatrice , a woman the author had met during his childhood . Alighieri 's family belonged to the Guelphs during the 13th century . The Guelphs were in constant struggle with Ghilebellines wherein the Guelphs favored the authority of the papacy over the Roman Emperor . The Guelphs eventually split into two factions , the Black and White . Alighieri belonged to White Guelphs who were eventually exiled from Florence . Dante 's exile became the theme of his whole work , basing the symbolism and allegories from past feuds against his opponents , who some were mentioned in the passages of the Inferno

The story begins with Dante finding himself a night before Good Friday on a dark area of the woods . It is mentioned that Dante is `halfway through his life (Alighieri , Canto I ) and that the dark part of the woods represented confusion or a contemplation between hopelessness bing on suicide . He continues the path but cannot find the right one . He is assailed by beasts...