Examples Of The Worst Punishments In Dante's Inferno

There are several theories about what happens after we perish. Many thoughts can be made about where we go or who and even what we turn into but there are so many possibilities on what actually happens. Coming up with one specific theory is not easy, but I have come to the conclusion that my belief is after we die, we come back as something else. Reincarnation is a debatable topic on rather you believe the rules behind it or not. My theory is that we come back as perhaps another person in a completely different body with no memory of what happened in your past. Several ideas have been made such as how we all have birthmarks that can conclude how we die in our past life. If you have a birthmark on your back then that could be how you died. Some similarities between my beliefs and Greeks beliefs is the journey that contradicts

Since ancient civilizations people have been trying to explain what goes on after death. Throughout history, many cultures have had different theories about what happens. Two distinguished ideas of where people go after death are the underworld and Hell. The idea of the underworld came from the Greeks and Romans. A few famous works by the Greeks and Romans that talk about the underworld are The Iliad, The Aeneid, and, The Odyssey. A famous work that discusses Hell is Dante's Inferno. Hell is an accepted part of the Christianity religion and taught all over the world. The two beliefs are very similar but some distinct differences can be seen.

To merely say that Dante was interested in the world of hell would be an understatement. His needs to explore and write about the nine different realms could best be described as an obsession. It’s an adventure, a tale, a dream (or nightmare) of different historical, biblical, and Greek gods and creatures living their lives in the afterlife of the underground world. Each level has its own form of punishment fitting the crime one has committed.

While Dante may have geographically misplaced these two groups of sinners, he did correctly punish most of the sinners in Hell. For example, "the river of blood - in which boils everyone / Whose violence hurt others" (Canto XII 41-42) describes the perfect punishment for those who were violent while they were alive. The degree of the violence committed also factors into the punishment. Tyrants who slaughtered many people are completely covered in boiling blood, while those who were violent against only a few suffer with blood up to their torsos. This is the perfect punishment because violence is a crime of

Dante explains a little bit why the lecherous are punished the way they are. He states that he “understood that to such torment / the carnal sinners are condemned, / they who make reason subject to desire” (V. 37-39). Desire governs the wantons’ reason instead of reason governing their desire. Since will instead of reason governed the sinners’ choices in their lives, then in hell they are experiencing the physical representation of the choices their souls made. The lustful are at the will of the wind, which blows them anywhere without any direction. This parallels the choices they made in life as their wills guided them without the direction of the intellect. The

Dante’s The Inferno is his own interpretation of the circles of hell. The people that Dante places in hell tried to validate their offenses and have never seen the injustice of their crime or crimes. They were each placed in a specific circle in Hell, Dante has nine circles in his hell. Each circle holds those accountable for that specific crime. Each circle has its own unique and fitting punishment for the crime committed. There are three different main types of offenses; they are incontinence, violence, and fraud. These offenses are divided into Dante’s nine rings of Hell. Each of these rings has a progressively worse punishment, starting with crimes of passion and

Death is viewed as a gate to meet God and live an eternal life with him. Whatever happens at death is always a mystery. In much religious death once everyone dies they will face judgment by God (Noebel,2006). Death is not the end of life; it is the beginning of eternal existence. Postmodernism has no moral absolutes but rather places responsibility into the hands of the

“No one thinks of how much blood it costs. “The person who said this is the same revolutionary that wrote the Inferno. He is talking about war, and about what violence brings, when no one thinks about the consequences. In his poem, The Inferno, he goes through hell meeting and talking with people in the different circles. These layers get worse the longer the poem lasts, and as long as Dante traverses the unknown depths of the devil’s kingdom. In canto 12, Dante and his guide Virgil, come across some interesting creatures that are watching and are helping torture their victims. In most people eyes, these beings are the most deserving of their punishment in the inferno, and the interesting thing about this sin is that not everyone can

Inferno, the first part of Divina Commedia, or the Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri, is the story of a man's journey through Hell and the observance of punishments incurred as a result of the committance of sin. In all cases the severity of the punishment, and the punishment itself, has a direct correlation to the sin committed. The punishments are fitting in that they are symbolic of the actual sin; in other words, "They got what they wanted." (Literature of the Western World, p.1409) According to Dante, Hell has two divisions: Upper Hell, devoted to those who perpetrated sins of incontinence, and Lower Hell, devoted to those who perpetrated sins of malice. The

In the first place, Christians of the new and old age primarily believe that after death their souls live on in the grace of God's presence. For example, in the Bible it states, “Jesus said, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live even though he dies.”’ In Dante’s Inferno, Dante is shunned by God’s grace and is trying to find his way back. In the concluding lines of inferno; “...and beauteous shining of the Heavenly cars. And we walked out once more beneath the Stars” (Alighieri 287). These last words represent Dante climbing out of the nightmare he called Hell and he is gazing upon the beautiful stars of Heaven. Which represents a sense of hope as if his sins are forgiven. Heaven and hell in the Bible have a rather vague description of the details embedded in the experience you will face in the afterlife. All that is very well known and established is Heaven is a place of light and God's love and Hell is the land in which you experience eternal suffering for your sins. These loose interpretations of hell are greatly represented in Inferno because Dante takes these thoughts and roughly based Christian ideology of the after life into his own “Visions of Hell” Henceforth, the Christian faith and ideas are the base to many other religions. Dante’s Inferno a like Christianity has multiple representations of faith including an abundance of Christian Beliefs.

In Dante’s Inferno, Dante narrates his descent and observation of hell through the various circles and pouches. One part of this depiction is his descriptions of the various punishments that each of the different sinners has received.  The various punishments that Dante envisions the sinners receiving are broken down into two types. The first type he borrows from various gruesome and cruel forms of torture and the second type, though often less physically agonizing, is Dante’s creative and imaginative punishment for sins. The borrowed torturous forms of punishments create a physical pain for the shades, whereas the creative punishments are used to inflict a mental and psychological suffering. However, it is possible for the creative

In the middle ages, Christian beliefs set the dominant standard of moral reason. Sin was crime. Dante, in his Inferno, created a hypothetical structure of hell, based on the deadly sins, encompassing nine levels. Each level of hell has a theme – a sin, a punishment, and the tormented. Dante put great consideration into the creation of his underworld, fitting each crime to an appropriate punishment.

“My Guide and I crossed over and began to mount that little known and lightless road to ascend into the shinning world again.” The Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, is an epic poem, divine comedy, which was written in the 1500’s in Italian. Dante Alighieri lost his mother at a very young age and was exiled from his hometown, Florence when his group, the White Guelphs got into a disagreement with the Black Guelphs. Dante was a writer and greatly involved in politics which influenced him to write this epic poem. The story starts at with him meeting the ghost of Virgil, his idol, who becomes his guide for the remainder of the book and tries to escort Dante to heaven to be with his love, Beatrice.

Dante’s Inferno is a very straight forward story of Dante’s story to work towards redemption with a very complicated narration. Dante explores the world of the afterlife in his poems with three different sections of hell, purgatory and paradise. Treachery and justice are just two themes that come into play in Dante’s Divine Comedy. Treachery is an act of betrayal and having a deceptive nature, while justice is giving the appropriate treatment to a persons action, good or bad. In Dante’s Divine Comedy, the act of treachery is a behavior that belongs in hell. However, being just and the act of justice is a behavior that belongs in paradise. Dante describes treachery as the worst of sins and justice as an act that belongs in Paradise and both related by love.

Many people who consider themselves practicing theists (people who follow the teachings of a god) have some kind of belief in the afterlife and where someone will spend their eternity. People who practice Islam have a similar belief on the after life as Christianity. They believe that when someone dies, their soul simply waits in the grave until the Day of Judgment comes, which is when the world comes to an end, and Allah shall have all souls arise and shall be judged on whether they go to Hell or Paradise. “Until the Day of Judgment, deceased souls remain in their graves awaiting the resurrection. However, they begin to feel immediately a taste of their destiny to come. Those bound for hell will suffer in their graves, while those bound for heaven will be in peace until that time.” Christianity practices a very similar method in which, after one dies, they will spend eternity in either Hell or Heaven. However, up until the 1300’s C.E., there was no real idea on what Hell was or the types of torment that occurred within it. Dante Alighieri attempts to try and create an image of what it it like within Hell. Dante was exiled from his home city of Florence in 1302 for reasons he felt he were misconstrued. In an attempt to get revenge he writes a journey in which he travels to the depths of Hell in order to reach the area known as Purgatory, a state in which they cannot be with God nor venture to hell; and he goes through all of this to reach Paradise, or Heaven. It must be