The Second Circle Of Hell In Dante's Inferno

Hell exists to punish sin. However hell is insinuated that it existed long before mankind was created so God didn't originally create hell for humankind, he created it to punish his angels when they fell from grace. For example a love of wealth and power, drives many souls to commit terrible sins. The second circle of hell contains those sinners who gave into excessive lust, including the memorable Francesca da Rimini. These sinners follow lust and desire, rather than chaste love like that between Dante and Beatrice. Dante also includes Sodomites in his vision of hell, a category including those who engage in homosexual

In Dante’s Inferno, there are nine circles of Hell. Dante goes through all nine circles, with his guide, Virgil, in hopes that he will make it to Heaven. In this Hell there are only four circles. This Hell is also called High School and the ultimate goal here is to go to Heaven, also called College. The four circles of High School include: the Regular students, the Honor students, the Artistic students, and the Athletic students. None of the groups are worse than the others, or lower down in High School. They are all on the same level, but they are separated into different groups. The person going through all four circles of High School is Freshman, Lilly Claire. Her guide through all of this is her big sister, Ainsley. As Lilly Claire

Reaching the Fourth Circle of Hell, Dante and Virgil encounter the souls of people who are punished for greed. This

Dante’s inferno was much more than just a journey through hell. Readers were able to take this journey with him as well. Readers got a first hand account of how an average Catholic man from the 14 century experienced hell. This journey was meant to be a lesson learned for all every single reader; this was a wake up call for everyone. Dante’s Inferno accomplished something that no other author had ever done, and that’s portray hell. No living man has ever witnessed hell for himself, yet due to this poem they actually have. Dante did much more than just give an overview of hell, but he gave a full scripted map of what hell was actually like. There was tons of detail that went along with the poem which made this journey so great. Dante lived during

Dante’s inferno shows the reader his interpretation of hell. In the book we see that depending on the sin that a person commits depends on which level of hell they go into. For example, someone that committed a crime of lust would go into the 2nd circle of hell. With the case of the Saint Valentine’s Massacre we can find out what circle of hell that Al Capone should go into. On February 14th, 1929 at 10:00am “four men burst into the SMC Cartage Company that Moran used for his illegal business” (O’Brien). The illegal business was selling alcohol during the time of prohibition. Two of the men that broke into the garage dressed up as police officers. These four men made everyone in the garage line up against the wall. This is when the shots started. Witnesses, alerted by the shots, watched as the gunman sped off in a black Cadillac that even had lights and sirens installed on it. The victims were left dead or left to die. There was a total of seven people killed in this event. “Al Capone and

In the beginning of his epic, Inferno, Dante seems to have “abandoned the true path” (1.12). He is lost in a dark forest, which symbolizes not only Dante’s loss of morality, but all of humanity’s sins on Earth. The Dark Wood of Error is a foreshadowing of what the afterlife would be like for Dante without God and without any meaning. Dante appears to be suffering through a mid-life crisis as he flirts with the idea of death, saying, “so bitter–death is hardly more severe” (1.7). Dante has lost his dignity and moral direction following his exile from Florence. Dante must travel through Hell and witness the worst crimes ever committed by humans. By traveling through the depths of Satan’s world, Dante is given an opportunity to reconnect with Christianity. Many people claim that Dante journeys through Hell for revenge, but in fact he is hoping to reset his own moral compass and find God.

Right away at entryways of the city of Dis, our dynamic duo enters the sixth circle of Hell (Heresy), where the Heretic people lay kept in bursting stone tombs. Virgil takes it upon himself to persuade the malicious soul gatekeepers to allow them to pass. He fails meaning that instead of continuing on with the journey, ante and Virgil must sit tight and wait for an angel to come down and inside barred their way force open the gates for them. After passing the city of Dis, Dante talks to Florentines Farinata Degli Uberti, who predicts that they will experience issues returning to Florence from the outside. He in like manner met along the way Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti the father of his friend Guido. As they continue with his journey they approach a valley that has a death-like a stench, Virgil revealed to Dante the structure of Hell is shaped like a cone.As they cross from the sixth to the seventh circle of Hell (Violence), they passed the Minotaur and met a group of centaurs, who shot the scalawags who tried to escape with their arrows.

In the story, Dante’s Inferno, Dante walks through the woods and becomes lost and afraid and ends up at the bottom of a mountain. As he travels up the mountain, he encounters and is stopped by 3 animals; a leopard, a lion, and a female wolf. They frighten him enough to cause him to turn back to the base of the mountain. There he meets the ghost of the Roman poet Virgil, who has been sent to guide Dante by three women in heaven, one of them is Dante’s lost love Beatrice, on a quest through hell to reach heaven. Virgil then guides him through the gates of hell, purgatory and the nine levels of hell. In hell, Dante and Virgil encounter all manner of sinners, each separated into their own specific level to be punished in ways that are catered to their specific type of sin. Although the story goes through nine layers of hell, the assigned reading only reaches onto the sixth level, which is where the Heretics are located.

The second circle of Dante’s hell is dedicated to punishing those who gave in to lust, subjecting them to being caught in a maelstrom. “For the lustful, or carnal sinners, they are blown around by a violent, never ending storm, never to rest. This is fitting because this is how one would imagine life being if one lived purely off of emotions; that is, uncontrolled, never settled” (Lundquist). The symbolism behind this is that, as they were caught up in the winds of passion in life, the souls of those who committed lustful acts will be caught up in a literal

Dante’s explanation of Hell has fascinated many individuals by the way it is explained, and more than likely made many use their mind and overthink it. When readers confront The Inferno, they might be surprised or blown minded by the way Dante explains what he went through. Many people after reading this might have changed their way of thinking of Hell because of Dante’s lecture, or maybe some still thought the same. Not everyone thinks that there is a heaven nor a hell, everyone has different believes depending on their culture and most importantly their religion. Religion is what makes people decide what they believe in and what not to believe in. When Dante passes through the gates of Hell he knew right away it was trouble without a doubt, he explains that there is different levels in Hell depending on what that individual might have done on earth. Virgil is the one who leads Dante into the Gates of Hell, as soon as Dante enters he then hears countless cries from the many souls that lived on earth and lived their lives without being aware of their moral choices. Virgil leads Dante to Acheron, which was a river, and it marks the border of Hell according to the book. Across it there will be many dead souls waiting to be crossed. Charon was an old man who recognizes Dante and tells him to stay away from the dead in Hell but then troubles them no longer. Unexpectedly fire and wind rises up from the

As Dante and Virgil continue their journey through the circles of Hell, he becomes more aware of the repercussions of his sins. They enter circle five. Dante then comes across a person he recognizes. The person committed a terrible sin so Dante realizes that he deserves to be there. He now understands that everyone in Hell is there for a

In Dante’s Inferno, part of The Divine Comedy, Canto V introduces the torments of Hell in the Second Circle. Here Minos tells the damned where they will spend eternity by wrapping his tail around himself. The Second Circle of Hell holds the lustful; those who sinned with the flesh. They are punished in the darkness by an unending tempest, which batters them with winds and rain. Hell is not only a geographical place, but also a representation of the potential for sin and evil within every individual human soul. As Dante travels through Hell, he sees sinners in increasingly more hideous and disgusting situations. For Dante, each situation is an image of the quality of any soul that is determined to sin in

There is a wealth of literature about the relationship between substance use and mental illness. Bahorik, Newhill, and Eack (2013) reported that individuals who have a mental illness have a higher prevalence rate of substance use than individuals who do not have a mental illness. Fluery, Grenier, Bamvita, Perreault, and Caron (2014) cite that at least one half of people who develop a substance abuse problem report being diagnosed with a co-occuring mental disorder. There is an abundance of information in the field that provides support for the assertion that there are high rates of comorbidity, which leads into the question of why the two constructs are often found together. Specific factors such as demographics, types of mental illness and motivation for engaging in substance use are considered. Ratnasingham et al. (2013) conducted a study in Ontario on the burden of mental illness and found that the burden of living with comorbid substance use and mental illness increases the risk of early mortality and decreases overall quality of life, so much so that the consequence of living with each ailment is greater than the consequences of the four most common types of cancer and all other infectious diseases. The primary motivation for substance abuse is to cope with psychological distress or negative emotions stemming from

In the second circle of the hell, Dante and Virgil soon saw the monster Minos, who stood before an endless line of sinners. Before Minos sent down the souls in their respective circle, sinners must confess their sins first, then Minos wraps his tail around the sinner a number of times indicating the circle number the soul must go. Hell is a place where God’s justice is observed. Those souls in hell are never defined. Every sinner clearly knows why they are in hell, and the circle they should go to. Therefore, I went into the circle of lustful

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