In Dante's Inferno, God punishes sinners in a unique way so that the crimes they commit on earth reflect the punishment they face while in Hell; which is a contrapasso. One example of a contrapasso is in canto thirteen, where sinners who commit suicide are in a form of a tree watching their bodies hang down from the ... fourth malebolge he says that "Their faces were reversed upon their shoulders so that they came on walking backward, since seeing forward was denied them"(361). Also when Dante went up close to the diviners, "our human likeness so contorted that tears from their eyes ran down ...

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