At the beginning of Dante's Inferno, Dante involves the reader in a personal way by including him in his story. It allows the reader to relate and emphasizes that they will or will most likely have had the experience of losing their way in life. Halfway along the journey of our life I found myself / In dark woods, lost the straight path (Dante, 1408). Hell is often described as the quintessential medieval worldview, a codification of early medieval values ​​in art, science, theology, and philosophy (Wilke, Hurt). He was a pious man whose experiences in a corrupt society shaped his writing style and the symbolism he included in his stories. There are graphic details of each circle of hell describing the appropriate judgment of each sin. In essence, the condemned are those who ignore God's laws and escape His spirit. He describes the different realms of Hell and always describes the emotions he feels so that the reader can understand the severity of what they have witnessed. Comedy is supposed to symbolize the world we reside in; and Dante's journey into the afterlife evaluates human struggles when confronted with sin, whether they conquer it or succumb to it. Dante's imagery is seen as exemplifying God's divine punishment and his own intentions of judging sinners by creating the circles of hell in a downward spiral. As the spiral descends, the worse the sins, the more terrible the punishment. Dante presents an appropriate schematic judgment in the nine circles of hell because it was important to symbolize the judgment his society would suffer due to low morals. In Cantos I, Dante is trying to find his way because he has lost “the straight path (Dante 1405). He can't... middle of paper... clearly had a problem with people who committed fraud, hypocrites and blasphemers. Virgil goes on to explain the order of the circles as they get smaller. Therefore every sin begins to be broken down and because the souls were placed in certain areas, Virgil and Dante focus on how their sins not only affect the person, but also affect God, says Virgil,... because fraud is peculiar than man / displeases God more; therefore the fraudulent are placed lower/……………………..….Violence is committed against the Divinity/ by cursing him and denying him in one's heart; (1448, 1449). There are times when Dante contrasts Hell with his society, Hell is basically the self-centered and vile city that serves its own judgment at the expense of its citizens. It ignores the common good thus creating a self-destructive society that corrupts its people.