Examples Of Biases In Dante's Inferno

The Inferno has influenced people around the world for almost 700 years. Most people think of Hell as a place where you don’t want to go and is miserable. This is because the Inferno is the basis of what we think of hell. The Inferno is a poem that Dante Alighieri wrote in 1320 about his fictional journey through Hell. The Inferno is the first of three sections of the Divine Comedy and would become one of the most famous books of its time. Throughout the poem, the reader can tell that Dante uses his personal bias to portray and place different characters.

Throughout the poem, Dante Alighieri places most of the Greek Gods in different stages of Hell to try and take a dig and belittle them. One of the Greek Gods that Dante has in his poem …show more content…
A perfect example the reader can tell is Pope Boniface. They are in Circle 8; Bolgia Three and a person says, "'Are you there already, Boniface? Are you there/ already?'" (XIX 49-50). This showing that the man who is talking is waiting on Pope Boniface to take his spot and it also shows that since Pope Boniface exiled him, he put him deep in hell. The best example is of Brutus and Cassius. These two were senators during the Roman Empire and the time of Julias Caesar. They plotted against Julius Caesar to assassinate him and eventually do. There punishment is in Circle Nine which is the lowest and deepest part of hell. Dante punishes them by, "The one who dangles down from the black face/ is Brutus: note how he writhes without a word./ And there with the huge and sinewy arms, is the soul/ of Cassius." Brutus and Cassius are in two of the three heads of Lucifer thus showing that they have the worst punishment of all the souls in Hell. Dante Alighieri hated how Brutus and Cassius plotted against Julius Caesar and assassinated him and it really shows with their