Similarities Between Paradise Lost And Dante's Inferno

Satan is an evil figure who appears in the Bible and many other stories, like Dante’s Inferno and Milton’s Paradise Lost. Satan brings evil, temptation, and leads humanity to not believe in God. Dante's Inferno and Milton's Paradise Lost are two books which he described Satan and hell in there own fairly different and similar ways. Dante’s Inferno levels of hell is separated into nine levels which are spheres, and in each level is a different punishment which progress to get worse and worse the farther you go down. He portrays Satan as being dumb, like when Satan is unable to talk from chewing on the sinners, he isn't showing much character or personality in the story. In Paradise Lost Satan is given a personality, and in hell there is eternal punishment that never ends. There are no levels of hell, “served only to discover sights of woe, / Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace / And rest can never dwell, hope never comes / That comes to all; but torture without end” (64- 7). Paradise Lost wrote the book knowing that God and Satan were going to have a conflict with God, meaning hell was already created. Before Satan was in hell he was one of God's angels. Satan still had wings from when he was an angel of God, which are no longer pretty with feathers, they are now scaly. He was described as a giant, and only had one head. Satan was put into hell because, he wanted to be the bigger person and be greater than God. In Dante’s …show more content…
Dante and Milton both show hell as where Satan lives, where there is punishment for all of the sinners. In Dante’s and Milton's book they both believe in heaven as a paradise that is wonderful, bright, and that Heaven is on top. The two main characters in both of the books are the same but look different, these characters are God and Satan. Satan is looked at with wings in both of these stories. He has wings because Satan was an angel of