In Date’s Inferno, there are nine different levels or sections of hell. Each one has a different intensity about it. There is what I call the beginning…this is Purgatory. This is between heaven and hell. This is where you may have escaped damnation but you have to try to cleanse your soul and wash your spirit. You have to do a lot of confessions and try to be righteous. If you are lucky, you will know the joys of Paradise as you travel to the ethereal realm of Heaven.
Level 1 is Limbo… you are ushered across the river Acheron, where you find yourself in the brink of grief's abysmal valley. You are in Limbo, a place of sorrow without torment. You encounter a seven-walled castle, and within those walls you find rolling fresh meadows…show more content… Harpies, a foul birdlike creature with a human face, will make its nest on these branches. Beyond the woods, there is scorching hot sand. Those who have committed crimes against God and nature are here. They are burned with fire that comes down like rain on their naked bodies. They are always in pain. Usurers, who followed nothing, are also here.
Level eight is called the Malebolge. It is a multi-level Amphitheatre-shaped pit. There are many sinners dwelling here. Pimps, seducers, hypocrites, barraters, those guilty of malice and fraudulence, magicians, diviners, fortune tellers, thieves….each have something different happen to them here. Some are always in human excrement. They say you must put your hands on your ears on this level because everyone here has scabs that look like they have leprosy.
They lay around on the ground like they are sick forever scratching their skin off with their nails.
The last level is Cocytus. You cannot get any deeper in hell and this is where Satan lives. He has huge wings that he is always flapping. This creates a cold wind that freezes everything. Dante says that Satan has three faces… black, red and yellow. All have a mouth that gushes a…show more content… They chew on traitors. Sinners here are frozen deep in the ice, faces out, with their eyes and mouths frozen shut. Who would have thought that there was a frozen place in Hell…
By carefully assessing the journey through Hell, Dante lets a man come to realize that the appropriateness of the punishment is a reflection of the sin's effects upon the soul. He may have let this living person travel through Hell to assess his live and to get a look into where he may go if he continues down the path that he is traveling. I am not so sure about who should be where. I think that some should belong on different levels if there really are any. I am a little
Intrigued on how the thought to put where. It is pretty obvious that Dante made his point on hell. He was a genius with the detail of each level. A sin is a sin…I think if you are damned to hell, everyone should be together in one big place. It is almost like prison but worse. You do not get special treatment for the crime that you committed in prison…so why should you be placed on different levels based on your crime in
