Question

According to Michael Meister's Introduction to the Inferno, why does Dante's story still have a powerful effect on its readers hundreds of years after its creation?

Answer 1

because it deals with the human struggle with good and evil found within every person, which is still a struggle today

Answer 2

Michael Meister is a priest who contributed to the foreword of Dante which published in 2007. He writes that even after 600 years the book has its effect in the struggle between good and evil. Meister emphasizes that the classic book has such a power in comparison with other books to keep its effect even up today.