... living cannot go. With the different levels of hell for different sins, Dante describes a sinner's punishment in full detail. Many of Dante's ideas about the inferno make the reader think about their everyday actions. One of the best writings of The Divine Comedy is Canto XXXIV. In Canto XXXIV, many questions are ... enters the worst level of hell, the ninth circle, fourth ring. This ring is called Judecca. The name Judecca is part of the name of Judas Iscariot because he is the prime example of the sinners of the level. The sinners that are punished in this ring of hell are those who .....

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... Dante A.P. English August 26, 2003 In the beginning of The Inferno of Dante, by Robert Pinsky, Dante builds a great deal of tension between the objective of God's justice, and Dante's human sympathy for the souls that he sees around him. As ... center of the Earth where he fell when God threw him down from Heaven. Each mouth of Lucifer chews on the three greatest sinners of all time. One mouth contains Judas, the betrayer of Christ, next mouth holds Cassius, and the next with Brutus, for betraying Julias Caesar. Clinging to Lucifers frozen clumps of hair, Virgil Leads Dante on a climb ...

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... the time. Dante Alighieri's own opinion was also shaped by the environment around him and political corruption. For Dante Alighieri, to be a traitor like Judas or Brutus was the worst sin of all. This was followed by fraud, which was one of the most distressing bad things that somebody could ... commit during this time period, due to the political instability. Lust was of lesser significance compared to the others. For this reason, the inferno is based mostly on social and political traditions of the time that are in conflict with religious beliefs. Violence was much more common, and a l...

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