Okie dokie. So, there are a few things that I want to say about The Inferno, but I'll just go with one. Before I begin, I will define a term or name called, "Mary Sue". 

Mary Sue is a nearly perfect or a perfect character and is an unrealistic character. As in, they're totally perfect that they grab all the characters' attention. Usually, Mary Sues are characters that are based on the author, or rather, a 'self-insertion' and Mary Sues are usually girl characters. The male version of a Mary Sue is called a Gary Stu. There are different types of Mary Sues, but I'll only say two, and one is the Victim Mary Sue. They are Mary Sues that are whiny, weak, and pathetic that they couldn't do anything except be pathetic. The other one is the classic Mary Sue. The Mary Sue is so awesome, so perfect, so beautiful, and so everything that all the guy characters fall for her. She's so everything that they'd do anything for her. Even if what they are gonna do is practically impossible. This is where Dante comes in.

In my point of view, Dante is a Gary Stu. I mean, come on! Beatrice (Divine Love), The Virgin Mary (Compassion), Saint Lucia (Divine Light), and Rachel (The Contemplative Life) all suddenly prayed for and immediately cared for Dante when he "lost his way". All four of them are, like, way up there and epic and stuff. But Beatrice still went out of her way to go to hell just to ask Virgil to accompany Dante and bring him to safety. Wow. So much they did only for him. What about the other misled people who are probably in the same situation as Dante? I bet they didn't even think for another second about them. See? Mary Sue-ness, or in this case, Gary Stu-ness. 

And another example would be when the 'Poets of all time appear'. Homer, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan all accepted Dante and made him part of their barkada or something. Fantastic. It's like 'Call Me Maybe' all over again. They just met each other, and are practically strangers, but they still... yeah. :| It's like an I-don't-care-who-you-are-but-now-that-you're-here-we-might-as-well-let-you-join-us kind of group. == Hah. Funny. Anyway, the Victim Mary Sue. Just like I said, he's not exactly whiny, but he "swooned with terror" a couple of times. == Swoon with terror? Wow... Just. Wow. You get the pic, right? Yeah. And, of course, when he felt sad and depressed about not being worthy of Heaven, Virgil just had to comfort him. And the time when "just all seems lost, a figure appears to him." (Canto I : when Dante was faced with the beasts and Virgil "saves" him)? Hah. Yeah... Gary Stu.

Anyway, besides that, the story's interesting. :P I kinda ranted over there but oh well. :P I like The Inferno. It helps people rethink about sinning and stuff.