Inferno of course is based around the idea of solving overpopulation with a disease and our antagonist Zobrist uses the plague from Dante's time period as an example for what his plan contains, "Centuries ago, Europe was in the depths of misery- the population huddled, starving, mired in sin and hopelessness. They were as a congested forest, suffocated by deadwood, awaiting God's lightning strike- the spark that would finally ignite the fire that would rage across the land and the clear the deadwood, once again bringing sunshine to the healthy roots." As we learned in "How to Read Lit like a Professor" a disease always portrays a little more than it may let on. The Plague, or Black Death, always portrays a divine wrath which Zobrist implements into his so called plague. The reader however does not discover till the very end of the book that Zobrist's plague did not directly kill off millions of people like our plague did. Instead Zobrist's Plague changed the the gene structure of the Human DNA so that 1/3 of the population would become infertile. Zobrist held I higher degree of of thinking, he didn't want to recreate the destruction of the first plague, he wanted to create a smooth transition. His disease represent, of course, a cure to overpopulation but his message was that he wanted the world to understand that change isn't always destructive and terrifying. another important character in Inferno is Elizabeth Sinskey who is head of World Health Organizations believed that the plagued needed to be stopped however after learning the truth of Zobrist plague and a lengthy discussion with Sienna Brooks begins to see the pros of his plague, "Ms. Brooks, I may have disagreed with Bertrands methods, but his assessment of the state of the world is accurate. This planet is facing a serious overpopulation issue. If we manage to neutralize Bertrands methods virus without a viable alternate plan... we are simply back at square one." Zobrist's plague doesn't just bring change to the Human population but it brings change to the philosophy of man. A rebirth in the ideas of man