Social Issues Based on “Inferno” by Dan Brown

Abstract

The book “Inferno” by Dan Brown explores the topic of the epidemic of overpopulation. The title of the novel is based on Dante’s “Inferno,” which was the first part of his poem “Divine Comedy.” “Inferno” is the Italian word for “Hell.” The setting of the story is Florence, where Dante lived and worked. In the novel “Inferno,” Harvard professor Robert Langdon is recruited by the World Health Organization to help locate a deadly pathogen. The virus is believed to have been created by Bertrand Zobrist, a Transhumanist who thought that the world was in danger of collapse because of overpopulation.