THE ALLEGORY BEHIND THE STORY The Faerie Queene poem by Spenser is an adventure story but its an allegorical work on several levels Spenser tries to portray aspects of the real life through fictional characters and events He lived at the time when England was breaking away from Catholicism and turning to Protestantism after Queen Elizabeth I came into power However there was still much anti Elizabeth propaganda from the Catholics circulating on the streets so we can see why Spenser wrote this p
Fire Dantes Inferno is about the dividing of hell into 9 different levels They are for what Dante believes exist for different stages of sins Free of weaknesses is ultimately his ticket to hell Dantes travels into hell so he knows how to better the way he lives his life Through the first cantos Dante shows how each level of his hell is an expression of human weakness and a loss of hope Hell is the deepest and farthest place from God himself which is why fire is the best and only symbol to repre