In my opinion, you can read that Dante’s comedy is about redemption. He is seeking to redeem himself into the real him after he has gone through a hell and a life of sins, this is what makes Dante’s poem an allegory, simply because of his actions which he is really trying his best to come of his sins.

Dante’s vision of the Afterlife in The Divine Comedy influenced the Renaissance, the Reformation and helped give us the modern world, writes Christian Blauvelt.

Dante contributed to the development of humanism, the use of the vernacular in literature and challenged the hegemonic nature of the Church and these helped to generate the cultural and intellectual changes known as the Renaissance, which transformed the world forever.

The plot itself is literally a story of Dante the Pilgrim’s journey to Paradise, so on the most basic of level, the poem is a story of redemption.

The theme of good and evil is critical to Dante’s work. The layout of the inferno is predicated upon the choices made between good and evil. Individuals who choose the latter are condemned to different layers of hell.

On the good, it is the justice that causes each individual to obtain his reward of his works and the bad thing is reflected in the evil of the man and its consequences. However, horror and terror focuses more on the story and that transmits meanings of evil.

What does the Inferno show about Dante’s point of view on good and evil? On the good, it is the justice that causes each individual to obtain his reward of his works and the bad thing is reflected in the evil of the man and its consequences.

Point of view As Inferno is an account of his own experiences, the character Dante speaks in the first person from a subjective point of view, giving the reader insight into his emotions and motivations. Tone Dante uses a largely moralistic tone when portraying the figures and events in his poem.

In such a way, the concept of sin and punishment depicted in Inferno differs from contemporary concepts, while today punishment is rather associated with crime against human laws than with sin, which is also an unlawful act but in relation to divine laws (Bow, 123).

The Divine Comedy remains one of the world’s most popular literary classics because at the time it was written is was the epitome of knowledge and experience. It was also remarkable because Dante wrote it in his own Italian dialect, not in Latin, which what most literature was written in.