Psychology Of Emotions In Dante's Inferno

According to The Psychology of Emotions in Dante`s Inferno by John Alcorn in the Pedagogy he states that “Dante brings to life pain and suffering in Hell”. Throughout the story Dante describes what he experiences throughout the levels of hell and what is happening in each level. In order to better understand and appreciate Dante’s Inferno, one must examine the setting, language, and male roles. In the beginning of the story Dante describes the setting of where he wakes up as “this wood of wilderness, savage, and stubborn” (Canto 1053). This helps add to the story by showing that Dante does not know where he has woke up at. He does know where he is and there is no background information that the reader need to have. By using the word “savage” he indicates that the woods are a horrible place and uninhabited by man. This helps start the mood of the story from the first few lines and is the first setting we see in the story to indicate where he is before he adventures into hell.
The setting of Hell is important because it helps set the tone of the story. The description of the levels of Hell sets the depressing mood. Each level progressively got worse which helped give climax to the story. In the text it states that “know what second death is, from their screams” (Canto 1056) which shows
Rosemary Educational Institution passing through Hell was Dante’s way of expressing life and a “pilgrimage of the soul on its way to God”. By looking at it this way one can see the symbolism in Dante’s struggles with the world around him and how he needs to escape the way he has been living his life through overcoming the optical that hell has provided. In the same interpretation it states that the Middle Ages made Dante`s Inferno a “religious and morally challenging experience”. This could also be the reasoning as to why it took place in Hell because it was someone that was no commune at the time and was a challenging thing to write