Dante's journey to see God through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise is depicted in The

Divine Comedy. He must traverse the nine circles of Hell, the mountain of
Purgatory, and the nine heavens in order to get to God. Dante is looking for God
and Paradise. This starts his journey because he wants to follow the spiritual path
of god which leads to him making the courageous journey through Hell with Virgil
and Purgatory and Paradise with Beatrice, The work is a complex narrative with many
allusions to biblical stories, classical myths, and political history. Hell is
portrayed by Dante as a region of great cold, which makes it very different from
how most people envision it. There are nine circles of hell in which different
punishments are imposed on historical figures prior to him and even some of his
contemporaries. The devil, who is imprisoned in a frozen lake, is in the final
circle. The devil is pictured as a rather ugly winged creature that is perpetually
flapping his wings causing his own
trap.

The hero of the story is Dante. Dante is a man who was exiled from his home
because of his political beliefs and struggles with the choice between good and
evil. His heroism comes in the form of humanity; he faces the challenge that all
humans struggle with. Dante in real life admired and idolized Virgil the poet and
his works, Dante dreamed of having Virgil as his mentor but knowing that Virgil
lived more than a thousand years before Dante He found another way to make his
dream come true, he made his dream come true through his works, he made Virgil his
guide, his mentor in a story where he is the main character. Paolo and Francesca
were the Romeo and Juliet of the story, Francesca was the daughter of the lord of
Ravenna, a city-state at war with Rimini, a rival power in northern Italy. To
secure peace, Francesca’s father entered into an alliance with Rimini’s leaders,
agreeing to marry his daughter to their heir apparent, Giovanni. The union was an
unhappy one: Francesca fell in love with her husband’s younger brother, Paolo, and
when Giovanni discovered their affair, he killed them both in a rage. Dante's
journey with Virgil through hell is both a physical journey toward heaven and a
more allegorical journey of spiritual progress toward God and away from sin. His
quest for his journey in the story is to overcome sin and find God's love; in
Inferno, Dante explores the nature of sin by traveling through Hell, where evil
receives punishment according to God's justice.

The writing demonstrated strong uses of symbolism to convey a deeper meaning of the
epic through the character Dante’s life, other characters, historical figures, the
relativity between sin and consequence, and Christianity that gives the words value
beyond what they physically mean. He used many references from the Bible, including
those to hell, Satan, Cain, and Abel, to characterize Beatrice as beauty and grace
and Virgil as guidance and wisdom. In order to make his writing more relatable, he
used examples from his own life.. The work makes clear that every individual human
being is subject to temptation and
sin, and that every sin will be punished, however, it is also essential to the
plot that every person has the freedom to change their behavior in order to escape
punishment and obtain Paradise's eternal rewards.