Dante 's The Divine Comedy

The Second Circle which is called Chalet, include people like Robert Hansen. He was guilty of raping more than 30 women, hunting them like animals. The group of sinners who inhabit this circle will go through what their victims

Dante’s The Inferno is his own interpretation of the circles of hell. The people that Dante places in hell tried to validate their offenses and have never seen the injustice of their crime or crimes. They were each placed in a specific circle in Hell, Dante has nine circles in his hell. Each circle holds those accountable for that specific crime. Each circle has its own unique and fitting punishment for the crime committed. There are three different main types of offenses; they are incontinence, violence, and fraud. These offenses are divided into Dante’s nine rings of Hell. Each of these rings has a progressively worse punishment, starting with crimes of passion and

In round one of the seventh circle, the sinners spend eternity boiling in blood. “At the base of the precipice, they see a river of boiling blood, which contains those who have conflicted violence upon others.” (Dante 429) Justice is being served to those sinners. Dante is going through these different circles to be able to see what hell can be like if you are a

The Divine Comedy: Infernoby Dante Alighieri Dante’s journey through the 7 circles of hell are a metaphor of all the Sins of Christianity and philosophies of Aristotle. intertwined with greek legend and medieval historical figures the reader is told a cautionary tale of the dangers and fate of the sinful. Each punishment for a sin, divided into circles and sub circles according to what offends and incurs the wrath of God the most, is also a form of poetic justice with many meanings and euphemisms detailed in every conversation Dante has with a condemned soul on his journey through the Inferno. examples of this poetic justice will be expanded upon later. Dante’s Inferno is a masterpiece work of collected prose and poems by Dante’ Alighieri. Inferno

Dante begins his journey about halfway through his earthly life, during a moment of religious despair. This is represented as Dante being lost in a dark wood, just outside of Jerusalem, the city considered to be the center of humanity. Dante then embarks on an exceptionally long traverse through hell (L’inferno), past Satan at the center of the earth, up to the base of purgatory on the other side of the earth. Hell consists of nine circles, with a contrapasso , or “suffer the opposite” punishment for each sin. The sins range from simply being pre-Christian/unbaptised to traitors.

Circle one of Hell is reserved for those whose only crime is living before Christianity and therefore not worshipping God as is deemed proper by God. These shades are the unbaptised infants and virtuous pagans who came before Christ. Virgil explains the sin in lines 34-39:

In Dante’s Inferno, Dante awakens in a dark forest where he finds three vicious beast. These beast scared Dante but the she-wolf he feared most of all saying that, “This last beast brought my spirit down so low with fear that seized me at the sight of her” (53). In order to return to the light and escape the beast, Dante must face the nine stages of hell that are filled with different types of sinners. Dante fears going through hell, but with the help of an old love, Beatrice, and the voice of reason, Virgil, Dante passes through the stages of hell. During his journey Dante realizes he recognizes certain people there and finds out that he will spend much of his own afterlife in purgatory.

Dante's `Divine Comedy', the account of his journey through hell, purgatory and heaven is one of the worlds great poems, and a prime example of a most splendidly realized integration of life with art. More than being merely great poetry, or a chronicle of contemporary events, which it also is, the `Comedy' is a study of human nature by a man quite experienced with it. The main argument I will make in this essay is that Dante's `Comedy' is chiefly a work of historical significance because in it lies the essence of human life across all boundaries of time and place. I feel that such a reading is justified, nay invited, by Dante himself when he says;

Dante is a poet who wrote an epic poem called The Divine Comedy. This epic poem is about Dante’s journey as he goes through 3 levels, which he calls Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise. In the Inferno, he meets Virgil, his guide throughout his voyage. They both pass through the nine circles of Hell, where they witness many different punishments for those who have done awful things in their past. Good versus evil is a major theme that occurred throughout Hell. In the Inferno, there are times where Dante sees good and evil and also represents it himself.

The remaining four circles of hell are separated from the previous five, in that they are considered the lower parts of hell, where Dante must pass through the walls of the city, Dis. The sixth circle of hell are where the souls of the heretics are found, and burning in their open graves is the way they suffer for the rest of eternity. The seventh circle of hell is where the souls of the violent reside. This circle of hell is separated into three different sections, representing the 3 different types of violence separated by rings; 1) violence against neighbors, 2) violence against oneself, and 3) violence against God. The outer ring, those who commit violence against their neighbors, are punished by being submerged into the Phlegethon, a river of boiling blood. Anyone who tries to leave have arrows shot at them by Centaurs. Those in the middle rings who committed violence against themselves, or suicide, are punished by being turned into trees and bushes, in which harpies feed upon them. The trees can only talk when they have their branches ripped off. The middle ring also houses profligates, or those who destroyed their lives by recklessly spending money. Their punishment is to eternally run away from dogs who try to maul

Divine Comedy is an epic poem written by Dante. The epic is divided into three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. In Inferno, Virgil (the Roman poet) guides Dante through Hell. There are nine circles of Hell followed by Lucifer’s level at the bottom. Level one is Limbo. Charon takes you across the River Acheron to Limbo, which is a place of sorrow without torment. Level two is Lust. It is a place of no light and bellowing seas. Here the lustful spend eternity. Level three is gluttony. There is eternal rain, curses, and cold. Gluttons are punished by lying in a filthy mixture of shadows and of rotten water. Cerebus, a canine monster with three heads, dwells here. Level four is Greed. The greedy share eternal damnation with others who

Then a guide named Virgil is sent Dante’s way to lead him through the darks of the underworld. Virgil leads Dante through the different levels of Hell. The different levels of Hell are broke up into different categories of sinners. Sinners are places into a category based on the sins that they commit. The sinners get punished the same way based on the sins they commit.

Virgil and Dante proceed down into Hell; in Hell Dante sins in every circle, committing the sin that represents each circle. After Dante sins in each circle he begins to learn and grow as a person realizing his mistakes but Dante is still his proud, careless self. In the circle of the wrathful, containing the sinners full of anger, Dante scolds one man saying “may you weep and wail to all eternity, for I know you hell-dog”. Dante is becoming angry just like the

The chief error about Gluttony is to think it only pertains to food. Some people can't have enough toys, television, entertainment, sex, or company. It is about an excess of anything. The world is full of good things, from the beauty of the stars to the ever-changing and never-changing oceans to the pleasure of human company. We are free to enjoy these things without becoming focused on any one of them to the exclusion of all else. It is possible to become so caught up in a pleasure, whether food or fun, that we can no longer enjoy other things, and would be willing to sacrifice other pleasures for the one.