I do hope not. First of all, this is the only discussion of Dante's Inferno I have ever come across that begins at the end and works backward. It is not an improvement on a forward-looking discussion. Further, the discussion is so remarkably dry and dead that it suggests that the author immersed himself in some packaged set of notes just long enough to sketch out a paper, rather than giving the Divine Comedy the careful reading that it merits. The author handles the material with a clumsiness suggestion that he has failed to grasp many of the key points even in the scenes that he invokes. (I find it hard to believe that this is a B+ college-level paper. It reads more like something I would expect from someone no farther along that sophomore year of high school.


And then there are the expressions that suggest this is a talk that someone would give over lunch in the cafeteria.


"screwing you over."

"An instance that mad me think was the various punishments"

"the authors intents" [At this point, the demon of the apostrophe should begin to flay this miscreant.]

"people that screw multiple people over in a 'wave effect'," Oh, poor soul: people being animate requires "who" rather than "that"; "screw" is slang, at best, which is not appropriate to an academic essay; the comma goes inside the quotation marks; and 'wave effect' is a colloquialism that is meaningless in this context.


"Dante's Inferno was a fun and

intellectually stimulations book." Lord, forgive him for he knows not. "The Inferno" has been described as many things, but this may be a first, that it is a stimulations book. I am not entirely certain what a "stimulations book" is, but it certainly sounds prurient.


"PENGUINE" It seems that the author was unable to copy the word correctly.


In short, I think this essay should be condemned at least to Purgatory, probably for all of eternity.