Dante's Inferno - Autobiographical JourneyHell is more than just a fictional story about someone traveling through the universe. It is actually more of an autobiographical journey of life through the eyes of its author, Dante Alighieri. Written in the early 1300s by a disgruntled Dante living in exile, it literally describes a man who is trapped and must find a way to escape. Allegorically, it speaks to us of the terrible moment of crisis that arises in each of our lives "when the evil within and without us seems to block all hope of further constructive development." Originally written as a long poem divided into chants or songs, he essentially wrote with the personal aim of recording where everyone he came into contact with during his life would go after their dead. This could be one of three places; Hell, purgatory or heaven. He then designed specific and tailored punishments or rewards, based on the life led by each person. Dante then tied all of this together and made himself a character that runs the length of the conceptualized world....