Dante's+Inferno

​ Dante's Inferno  Home The Next step to realize the role that Angels and Demons play in Christianity at least would to read some of the literature that is inspired by them. One such book would be The Inferno or what most people know it as Dante's Inferno.The book starts out with how Dante is lost in a dark woods and cant remember how he fell off the true path. He sees the sun rise over the hills and continues toward it. He is then confronted by a lepored, lion and she-wolf. The she-wolf knocks him down the hill. He then meet his guide which is a being named Virgil. Virgil tells him not only can he not defeat the she-wolf but he must travel through the nine circles of hell to come back to purity. As Dante enters hell and begins to walk through it he sees the many people who have made it to one level or another in hell. He then asks each of the people he finds to tell him there story so he will be able to write down there accounts when he gets out of hell. Now in the book there is a few accounts of demons and angels present. The main theme its seems for them both is that they are still heavenly tied to obeying god. This is present when Dante and Virgil progress is stopped out side the city of the damned and they wont open the gates. Virgil goes and gets an angel from heaven to come and open the gate for them to pass. Then when a bridge is out latter in the story to cross the boiling river of blood demons appear and after exploring to them that they are on a mission from god the demons have to help them find pass across it. There are also other points when the demons are about to kill and torment them but after finding out about their divine aegis the demons back down and often help them go on.