Dante's Inferno Mountains

In the cold the tour guide pushes the boat through the water, and bodies in the water are trying to climb into the boat. That is the opening to Dante's Inferno, that when the main character enters hell it is not warm and just a short trip. Instead Dante is shown all the different levels that hell is made of by his tour guide. With this painting from Date's Inferno the reader can see the environment that is in hell and all those who it effects. In this painting the artist uses the mountains in the distance to show how hell is painful and deep and that there is a steep incline in which the river sways. Those mountains show how that hell is not just s flat plain of land, it shows how it has layers that can change the environment. A multitude of mountains varying is size shows the different depths of hell and how the landscape is used as a way of some form of punishment for the individual who have been …show more content…
He is able to show the emotions of all those in the painting, without using words to express the felling. With the man who is pushing the boat the reader can see how this man is using all of his strength to push the boat, and the difficulty of keeping this boat on track. Also the boat is more of a clean cut, with smooth lines. It conveys the smooth journey that the passengers enjoys, compared to the sea. The artist uses dark colors and the current of the sea is violent, with limbs randomly popping out of the sea. The reader can also see the desperation of one male who is trying to climb onto the boat, just to escape the constant torrent, his hands digging into the wood just hoping to just hang on and arrive on land. The shading of one of the characters grabbing the boat pays more attention to all strength in his arms just to hold on, rather then this individual face.There is all this raw emotion in one painting, describing the horrors of living in limbo in