Throughout Inferno , Dante continually asks the souls in hell for information regarding who they are and the sin that landed them there. Every time he enters a new ring and sees a new sin being punished, he always promises those there that he will make sure people remember them. If Dante is a good person, why does he keep bribing bad people with fame? He uses their want for something as an incentive to help him receive answers. Dante beseeches the souls to speak despite their pain and the possibility that their sins cause them to feel shame, saying, “So may your name not seal itself away / from human memory in the former world, / But love through many turnings of the sun, / Tell me then who you are, and from what city” (303.103-105). The people in hell have no hope. Dante making the souls an offer and them accepting means they then have something even if they are dead and cannot see the outcomes. Even if we commit a bad action, we have a desire to be remembered, and that is why he i...