Intentions of Dante in Inferno

He’s is in company of Virgil, the great poet of the Ancient Roman. As you would expect from any literary work in the hell genre, hell is depicted as the most awful place imaginable. Dante tries to communicate the grim world that that awaits the ungodly. For instance, at some point, he and Virgil hear the wail of anguish from souls that belongs to those who did not take sides (between evil and good) but were mainly concerned with themselves. At the bottom line, Inferno is Dante’s figurative presentation of hell which he used to convey the precarious journey of one’s soul towards god while at the same time recognizing and rejecting sin. William Blake, on another hand, would have not been a desirable illustrator for Inferno due to his tendency to rely heavily on vision and the theme of sexuality.