The upper hell has five circles and the foyer. The foyer holds the mediocre people and the trimmers. These sinners are punished by being stung by insects and running aimlessly after one banner and then another. They also have maggots that devour the blood that is mixed with tears that fall down the sinners faces. This punishment is good for these sinners because they did not make up their mind so someone else made up their mind for them and made it very clear to the sinner which one he should have chose.

The first circle of hell consists of virtuous pagans and the unbaptized infants. These are the people who lived before Christ came. Their punishment is to have desire without hope. “They have no hope of death, and their blind life is so debased that they are envious of

every other lot.” This fits because during their life they lived the same way. They had the desire for knowledge but did not have hope to find it out.

The third circle of hell is composed of gluttons. The punishment for gluttons is for them to lie in mud in a cold rain. This punishment suits their offense because these people are used to being pampered and living the high life. Now they are stuck living like pigs that live the exact opposite of the gluttons.

The sixth hell holds the heretics. These people are in burning tombs. The reason that they would be put in burning tombs is because they went against the religion and the bible speaks of hell as being a place of fire so for going against the religion they will have the punishment that the bible says is hell.

The ninth circle is those who committed fraud against those who had trust in them. There are four levels. The first level is those who murdered their relatives. They are in ice to their necks with their heads bent forward. They are like this because in their life there heart was cold so they are in ice to their necks and for eternity they have to look down at the ice and see their reflection and face what they have done.

The avaricious and the prodigal reside in the fourth circle of hell. These sinners spend eternity pushing rocks. This matches their crime because they spent their lives trying to get as far as they could and they ended up nowhere. They now push rocks for eternity without getting anywhere.

The eighth circle has ten levels. These ten levels hold the people who commit fraud. The first level is those who are seducers. They are whipped by devils. They will be whipped by devils because devils can be very persuasive and put on an act

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