... ;You are my guide, you are my lord and teacher." (Alighieri, 1.140) The seven deadly sins are all represented as Dante goes through each circle. His personal sins are shown and represented throughout the poem. The deeper Dante and Virgil travel through the circles of hell, the worse the punishment for each ... sin gets. The first circle Virgil and Dante approach is called Limbo "where the sad shades of the virtuous non-Christians dwell" or "home of the virtuous ... heathen, who live eternally in the hopeless desire of reaching heaven." (Alighieri, IV) (Bloom, 14) This circle does not ne...

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... no knowledge of heaven. Here Dante saw many poets and writers like Socrates and Plato and Democritus. Continuing on they reach the boarder of The Second Circle. The Second Circle of Hell is a place for those who had the sin of lust. At the border lurked a monster by the name of Minos. Minos ... where each soul should go for their punishment. After a sinner confess's Minos wraps his tail around his body a certain number of times to represent the Circle of Hell the sinner is condemned. Here Dante meets a woman by the name of Francesca, who explains that she was married and had an affair w...

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... ; steaming, stinking marshes, lakes, and streams; storms of hail, rain, snow, and fire; tortured souls, grimacing faces, and blood-curdling screams (Durant, 1069). Dante's journey begins in Limbo, the first circle. Dante describes Limbo as a "dread abyss that joins a thunderous sound of plaints innumerable, thick with clouds o"erspread (Dante Canto IV)." Limbo holds those who died before Christ or were unbaptized ... , but generally good people. Those in Limbo proceed unhurt and unpunished, but are unable to behold God (Durant, 1070). After Limbo, the travelers proceed to the second circl...

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... committing such an act is all the same since Dante's time. Dante soon recovers from his fall only to find himself in the third circle of more grief (Alighieri VI. 1-5). The traveling poets make their way through the next four circles-Gluttony, Greed, Anger, and Heresy-where ... passion ultimately triumphs over reason. The poets make haste toward the seventh circle, Violence, and Siero perceives the sinners as though, "[exercising] emotion in alignment with reason: Violent though some of their actions may be ... of sodomites; Dante could hardly recognize that it was his contemporary ment...

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... epic, Dante is forced to experience every level of hell in order to get to heaven and the love of his life. From the first circle, to the last circle, many forms of violence and torture are witnessed by Dante, but all of the different violent acts of torture have their own specific meanings. ... poet Virgil on his journey through the underworld to heaven. One of the first experiences of violence that they come across is in the second circle of hell. In this circle of hell, there are the souls that were overcome by lust. These souls are described as "Carnal sinners who subordinate reason...

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... . The sodomites, like the lustful, have allowed themselves to become powerless to their sexual appetite. However, Dante places the sodomites in the seventh circle of hell, which is reserved for the violent; it is considered to be violent because it is a perversion of nature. The practice of ... made by the sodomites represents the unnatural movement of the soul; instead of a constant ascension to salvation, the soul makes the constant motion of a circle. The result being that there is no progress in any direction and an unnatural alignment in the body, "the neck and feet moved constantly ...

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... why Hitler belongs frozen in ice among the worst human beings that once lived on Earth. When Hitler would have reached the outskirts of the second circle of Hell, reserved for the lustful, he would have encountered Minos, the monster that assigns souls to their respective circles. Although Minos would have immediately ... claimed this was ridiculous, because the land should only be regained in the same way it was lost "by force. After this, is the seventh circle of Hell, divided into three parts. The first part is for those who were violent against their neighbors. This sin applies to Hit...

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... for not being baptised which seems to go against the "forgiving God" notion. In Canto V, Dante and Virgil descend into the Second Circle of Hell, Lustful. At the gate to the circle stands Minos, son of Zeus and Europa, King of Crete, and known for his wisdom and judicial kings. His purpose is to ... that enter hell to what level of hell they must go. After strong words from Virgil, Minos allows them to pass. Dante wakes to find himself in the Third Circle of Hell, where the Gluttonous are punished. Here, the punishment is a "round of rain, eternal, cursed, cold, and falling heavy, chang...

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... life. Now they are stuck living like pigs that live the exact opposite of the gluttons. 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 sullen and the angry are located in fifth circle. The sullen spend eternity are underwater in a black swamp making bubbles. The angry are thrashing feebly in the black swamp. This is appropriate because the ...

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... The Carnal - he assigns each soul to torment by wrapping his tail around them. The number of times he does this indicates the circle of hell that the soul will be tormented in. Minos was the mythological king of Crete who was famous for his wisdom and justice ... sinners elect their Hell by an act of their own will. (Dante's Inferno pg. 62 notes #4" Cerberus - Circle III - Gluttons - The three headed dog of hell that rips and tears those in the circle with its claws and teeth. Cerberus was placed at the gate of the underworld to allow all to enter and none ... to escape. His ravenous dis...

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... am he who held both keys to Frederick's heart, / locking, unlocking with so deft a touch/ that scarce another soul had any part (58-60)." In this circle, one of the suicides who said, "I am he- is Pier delle Vigne, who was a powerful minister of Emperor Frederick II, until he was accused of treachery and ... was imprisoned, so he committed suicide to run away from the torture. The heretics are in the sixth circle, the wrathful in the fifth, the miserly in the fourth, the gluttons in the third, the lustful in the second, and those that, " lacked Baptism ... 's grace, which is the door/ of...

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In the classic Christian allegory Dante's Inferno, the spirit Virgil guides Dante the pilgrim through the nine circles of hell. Each Circle is reserved for a certain type of sinner, such examples include the Second (Lustful), the Seventh (Violent), and the Eighth(simple ... , either by an outside agent of torture, a demon, or within themselves An example of an outside agent of torture being utilized is in the Second Circle. Virgil and Dante see various naked shades spun around in a constant hurricane (p. 110). These were the lustful, and included in this ring were many ... significance of th...

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... itself. Kameen states that, "Each sinner suffers a different severity based on his or her unique sins" (Kameen). This is where Dante comes into play. For example, the third circle of Hell is for the gluttonies. "More often than not, however, the punishment is much more complex, as can be seen in the punishment for gluttons in the third ... circle. This punishment could be interpreted as a storm meant to overwhelm those who craved stimulus in life, or as a storm obscuring those who hungered for fame, or the storm could be ... idea for this symbolic punishment. He uses many examples to ...

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... and Virgil descended down far from the top into Hell, they encountered the shades guilty of more severe sins, and these shades or souls perfectly represented a suitable fate of each circle of Hell. Their eternal suffering reflects their sins from their time before death, sins that were put in order according to the morals of the time. Dante Alighieri's own opinion ... political beliefs and structure at the time in Florence, Italy. In Canto XXVIII, the reader is given an effective presentation of this paradox. In the Ninth Abyss of the Eighth Circle of hell we have Sowers of Discord and ...

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Dante and Virgil are chased by demons into the sixth pouch of the eighth circle of hell that consists of hypocrisy. A hypocrite is someone who pretends to possess virtues, morals, or religious beliefs but in reality do not have them. Punishment for these sinners is ... because they get a taste of their own medicine and have to live in hell crawling around. The eighth circles of hell, Malebolge, consist of sinners that involve conscious fraud. This circle consists of ten Bolgie, or ditches, that pulls people in similar to hypocrites and how they pull people into believing them. Dante has a pe...

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... . Dante starts the poem trapped in the shadows of his own sin and this is his quest to find light. Dante the Pilgrim enters Hell Proper in Canto V, with the Circle of the Lustful. He meets Francesca and Paolo, two lovers trapped for eternity because their forbidden love. Dante the Pilgrim really shows his poetic side, by fainting after meeting them ... ; (Canto V 137-138). Dante shows kindness to these souls, but as he progresses he will see the wretchedness of sin. Dante begins to lose some of his compassion beginning in Circle V. Here, the wrathful are striking at everyone, as one strik...

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... soul as you make your way up the mountain to enjoy the pleasure of paradise. After crossing the river Acheron Dante finds him self in Level 1- Limbo is the first circle in hell where things are not so bad, there is no punishment here, there is a seven walled- castle, some trees, a stream which all serves as a home to Dante's guide through ... there own lives are stuck here for all of eternity. This is where it gets a little confusing as far as level 8 goes. The Malebolge, Level 8 is divided in multi-leveled circle where the fraudulence and cruel are punished. Thieves, magicians, fortune...

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... . Dante also takes tremendous pride in describing each scene, which increasingly worsen as the story develops. When Dante and Virgil enter the gates of hell they come across the first circle where it was peaceful yet depressing. Men, women, and children stayed there who were good, but lacked baptism and therefore could not be saved. Each ... circle worsens throughout the story then one gets to Canto XXXIV where sinners were completely covered by ice in a frozen lake. Then Lucifer is described has having three heads and bat- ... ...

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... puts these questions in the readers' minds by having the idea of different levels of hell. In Canto XXXIV, the reader finally 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 ... benefactors is the worst sin in hell. The next part of Canto XXXIV is where the question, "Where is the devil?- is answered. When Virgil and Dante are leaving this circle to ascend out of hell, Dante creatively describes where hell is located. To get throu...

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... of deterring others, and himself, from sin. Dante does not attempt to simply scare others with the threat of punishment, though. He attempts to show, through the allegories in each circle, the perversion of the crimes. Because each punishment is based upon the sin itself, the punishment is intended to show how horrible the sins themselves are. Essentially, bringing emphasis on ... ...

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... story between Francesca and Paolo in "The Inferno" in Canto V and how the power of love led them to be punished together for adultery.  Coming into the second circle of Hell, Dante encounters Minos who is the judge of the damned sinners; he tells the souls where to go as they arrive. Dante sees souls flying in circles like ... ...

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... , his helper. The punishment for each sinner corresponds to the sin that they committed. In Canto 18, Dante and Virgil travel into the First and Second Pouch of the eighth circle of hell, also called Malebolge. This region of hell is divided into ten parts, or "pouches-, where sinners of "ordinary- fraud are punished. In the First Pouch, the panders and ... ...

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... of justice and punishment, instances related to Boniface can make the motives behind these concepts more apparent. Dante and his guide Vergil are touring the eighth part of the eighth circle of hell, which is known as Malebolge, it is here that they meet Guido da Montafeltro. It is also here that fraudulent counselors suffer for the deeds of their lives ... ...

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... to the epigraph in the ending lines of the poem as Prufrock seemingly falls into the eternal hell of his indecisiveness. Prufrock once again is left standing outside of the circle of mermaids, as they do not sing to him. (Eliot 124, 125) Eliot uses the black and white imagery to display Prufrock's aging, while the mermaids (which perhaps is a reference ... ...

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... to the epigraph in the ending lines of the poem as Prufrock seemingly falls into the eternal hell of his indecisiveness. Prufrock once again is left standing outside of the circle of mermaids, as they do not sing to him. (Eliot 124, 125) Eliot uses the black and white imagery to display Prufrock's aging, while the mermaids (which perhaps is a reference ... ...

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