Everyone has a different perception of what heaven and hell really are and where people end up in the afterlife. Some people are not even religious and have their own personal thoughts about what will happen after death. Hell or to be more precise “Hell” can be described and defined as a place where people end up after death in the natural world, when people have not followed God's ways and laws of life. Over the years it has been described that suffering in hell is horrible, gruesome and unimaginable. In Dante's Inferno, Dante portrays the protagonist as being guided by his ghostly friend Virgil the poet through the nine chambers of Hell. The transition from one circle to another is very shocking and graphic in what you witness through each circle. Dante discovers where each sin will lead people once the sinners' souls face death. He faces many trials and tribulations from the beginning to the end of Hell. Dante felt moved to write the Inferno because he was going through personal difficulties at the time. In a way he was extremely depressed because he was exiled from Florence and the love of his life, Beatrice, died. While Dante was in exile for so many years, this allowed him to write some of his most significant literary works that people still read today. Dante begins his struggle when he gets lost in the dark forest and then finds himself in the depths of hell with Virgil. “Every man – that is, every human being – finds himself in the dark state of sin and error after having strayed from the true moral course established by God” (Rudd 10). He meets a ghostly boy named Virgil, the extraordinary Latin/Roman poet who guides him through the nine chambers of hell ba......middle of paper......r Sunday. The journey then continues through purgatory. Works Cited Alcorn, John. "Suffering in Hell." Pedagogy 13.1 (2013): 77-85. Academic research completed.Web. June 11, 2014."Hell." Literature and its Times: Profiles of 300 major literary works and the historical events that influenced them. Joyce Moss and George Wilson. vol. 1: From antiquity to the American and French revolutions (Prehistory-1790). Detroit: Gale, 1997. 174-180. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Network. June 11, 2014. Jacoff, Rachel. Dante's Cambridge companion. New York: Cambridge University, 2007. Print.Rudd, Jay. Dante's critical companion: a literary reference to his life and work. New York. 2008. Print.Rudd, Jay. "Inferno: Cantos 1–:4." Dante's critical companion, critical companion. New York: Facts On File, Inc, 2008. Bloom's Literature. File, Inc. Web Facts. June 11 2014