Examples Of Punishments In The Inferno

What is Hell? During the fourteenth century, Dante Alighieri was exiled from his home in Florence, Italy and wrote The Devine Comedy: The Inferno while in exile. In this text, Dante gives detailed descriptions of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. He wrote this poem in order to get revenge on the political figures who had banished him. Walter Scott explained this perfectly in his book, The Heart of Midlothian, “Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell” (Scott). In many ways, The Inferno was designed as a type of memoir to depict the sins that surrounded him in Florence. In Dante’s Inferno creates an imaginative connection between a soul’s sinner on Earth and the punishment the sinner receives in Hell.

In Dante’s Inferno, Dante narrates his descent and observation of hell through the various circles and pouches. One part of this depiction is his descriptions of the various punishments that each of the different sinners has received.  The various punishments that Dante envisions the sinners receiving are broken down into two types. The first type he borrows from various gruesome and cruel forms of torture and the second type, though often less physically agonizing, is Dante’s creative and imaginative punishment for sins. The borrowed torturous forms of punishments create a physical pain for the shades, whereas the creative punishments are used to inflict a mental and psychological suffering. However, it is possible for the creative

Throughout the story of Inferno there are several examples of symbolic retribution that we can talk about. Symbolic retribution means a punishment that you will have to undergo because of your sins. Dante’s Inferno portrays several different layers of Hell. Each layer of Hell has many different types of sinners. The layer of Hell that the sinners are placed in depends on the sins they have committed.

The world in hell has a totally different set up in the book rather than the casual all in flame, red and hot place that the most common person might think or describe, but an elevator kind of feel, with different stages, settings and even ice on hell. Hell is set up in nine circles that each contain a strong meaning and also some very interesting cultural figures, each circle has a meaning from Limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and the worst of them all, treachery were Lucifer himself was placed. Each of these levels are Dante's vision of hell, and for each sin is the way he grades how bad the action was. Nevertheless, the feeling of true dislike in some these important figures such as Alexander the Great, Pope Anastasias, Helen of Troy and even a Centaurus which is a mythological creature are place in hell for those motives.

In contrast, for a soul to enter heaven in Dante’s Inferno one had to have repented for every sin and therefore be in a perfect stance with God. In addition, Dante’s hell is eternal. This is also consistent with Catholic beliefs. In Virgil’s hell, one could escape torture and return to earth by suffering for 1000

In his poem, Inferno, Dante Alighieri meets the damned souls in hell. His mentor, Virgil, a well-known poet and a good friend of Dante’s, guides him through out their journey of hell and encourages him to farther question those souls damned in hell. Virgil also explains the structure of hell, how it is divided into circles and each circle is the place where those guilty of certain sins are being punished. Through out the poem, the souls that Virgil and Dante encounter, all try to justify their sin and they indirectly ask for pity. Here is where Dante the poem leaves the decision up to the reader, whether or not the punishment fits the sinner and the sin and whether or not they deserve

In “Dante’s Inferno”, Dante travels through hell and gazes upon people being punished by their sins. Each description is detailed and focused on quite a lot. In each circle people are being punished for specific things. The punishments are customized to that sin that was committed. In “Dante’s Inferno”, Dante describe the punishment as a result of committing suicide in order to teach the audience that giving up something that God gave will lead to the biggest punishment of all.

Some of the worse crimes have more gentle punishments than those punishments of the crimes that seem not so bad. In Inferno the punishments and placements of the sins make good sense some of the sins such as lust could have more suitable punishments than what is depicted by Dante.

In the tale of Dante’s Inferno Dante prescribes thoughtful, logical, and fitting punishments to fit the sins of Hell’s inhabitants. Although his story might not reflect truth about the layout of Hell, his writing provides an interesting prospective on how to view sin. Most Christians think of an action as sin or not, but Dante grades sins by severity, thus organizing Hell as he sees it. Each circle of Hell holds different sinners each enduring torture of different kinds. Throughout the Divine Comedy Dante ingrains the idea of different punishments fitting to the sins committed through the different levels he describes.

Dante eventually realized that sin is a choice, and in his story creates Hell to have different levels of punishment for each sin. The way Dante divides the punishment of sins is accurate, and he is very successful in the way he chose to deliver his message of what Hell is like.

Inferno, the first part of Divina Commedia, or the Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri, is the story of a man's journey through Hell and the observance of punishments incurred as a result of the committance of sin. In all cases the severity of the punishment, and the punishment itself, has a direct correlation to the sin committed. The punishments are fitting in that they are symbolic of the actual sin; in other words, "They got what they wanted." (Literature of the Western World, p.1409) According to Dante, Hell has two divisions: Upper Hell, devoted to those who perpetrated sins of incontinence, and Lower Hell, devoted to those who perpetrated sins of malice. The

As previously mentioned, in order to understand penance, the topic of punishment needs to be discussed. The souls in Inferno are being eternally punished for their choices that they made on earth. According to Aquinas, punishment in Hell is one receiving what they always desired. These individuals in Hell desired something other than God and now they receive these things for eternity: “to the wretchedness of Master Adam; alive, I had much of whatever I wished, and now, alas, I crave a drop of water” (Alighieri, 2007, p. 467). For example, those who are in Hell due to wrath or sullenness have an eternal punishment of either attacking one another or screaming and fighting underneath a swamp. Also, based on Dante’s writing, it seems that those

Dante’s Inferno is a correlation of poems that is written to explain Hell in depth. In the inferno there are strong points made about levels of sin, and decisions and actions in each level that can cause you to be banished there forever. Each type of sin has a level and a punishment. In Dante’s Inferno, it is seen that a sin of the mind is far worse than a sin of the body because for someone to commit a sin of the mind, they have to consciously make the choice of doing what is seen as wrong, but sins of the body they are more likely to be influenced into the choice, without much thought.

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.

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