... in ice, the cold symbolizing a lack of human love and warmth, which they denied others in life. But one question continuously plaguing scholars is why Dante the poet considers familial relationships important enough to merit such heinous punishment. In the outermost layer of Cocytus, the frozen lake at the bottom of hell kept cold by the endless beatings of Satan's wings, reside ... bipartite unity".2 From this quote we can get a closer look at truly awful nature of the crime these two brothers committed, and why Dante is so unforgiving with them. Another explanation for Dante the poet's...

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