Just as the physical world around us changes with time the morals and ethics of the general populace also changes, albiet gradually. The Inferno by Dante Alighieri, written almost 700 years ago, was an important work as it explored the morals and ethics of society in his work, something that was just as uncommmon then as it is now. We know that the physical has changed, but just how much has the metaphysical changed? It is safe to say that the morals and ethics in our society has changed almost dramatically when compared to those that were present when Mr. Alighieri wrote The Inferno. Throughout his work, when compared to general modern morals, the morals of the time period, as can be witnessed throughout the work, seem to almost
