From the start, the situation that Dante is in already calls to mind the belief of Christians that life is like a journey which we are passing through to go to the place we were meant to be. I appreciate Dante’s bravery in going into such detail, what hell might have in store for us and casting himself as the main character. Also, though it may be essential to the idea he had created, I wouldn’t have the courage to incarcerate real people to hell, whatever life they had lived. However, I do understand the quality it gives the work. He may have meant to use historical figures as a tool to fuse fiction with reality.