religious figures in the bowels of hell. This to was surprising, yet I sort of agree with it. My religion tells me that those who serve God are good people. Although I know that many are unjust. It was just surprising that this issue was brought to the reader's attention.The idea of Satan was something that this poem clarified. The Bible, movies and television deal with the idea of hell having a ruler, Satan. Dis is basically Satan. I wasn't surprised that he existed in the last circle. What surprised me was that he was half frozen. Media has portrayed hell as this hot fiery place, which was unsurprisingly true in the middle circles (the raining of fire is an example). When he got to the deepest bowels there is no more fire, but ice in which the worst sinners are frozen in. That caught me off-guard, because what I have seen on various movies and TV shows was the fiery hell.The most surprising factor was the idea of Dante gong through hell on this tour and having an awakening. Before this I thought that hell was this thing that you heard about to scare you away from sinning. The Inferno makes it into a tour that opens the eyes of Dante. It became an educational tour that awakened his ideas of hell instead of being a fable to keep people from sinning. It seemed odd to me that there could be this actual terrible existence of hell and that someone would want to tour it. Again media affects the idea that it is not someplace to visit.It was interesting to see how my ideas of hell have been developed through my religion and the media. What is more interesting is how my view of hell has changed since reading the Inferno....
