Explain The 9 Levels Of Hell In Dante's Inferno

Words: 201
Pages: 1
Open Document
In Dante’s Inferno , the 9 levels of hell are separated depending on the 7 different sins that people have committed. The crime always fits the punishment of each sinner an ideal example of this is when Dante walks through the seventh outer circle where the violent are punished for murder or being tyrant. As found in Canto 11 their punishment is to be half tree and human hybrids , they are punished by harpies biting on their limbs and branches for eternity (line 35).
The punishment vary from what sins that have been commited from the first circle being the less punished to the 9th being eaten by satan himself for eternity. Another example found in canto 5 is the lustful being punished by black howling tempest winds blowing them away in a
Show More

Related Documents: Explain The 9 Levels Of Hell In Dante's Inferno

Thougthful Triads Numerology of Dantes Inferno Essay

Numerology of Dante’s Inferno By: Crystal Hood HUM 2216 – Chipola College Professor Myers July 24, 2014 Word Count: 1769 “The path to paradise begins in hell.” – Dante Alighieri Dante Alighieri wrote his Devine Comedy almost seven hundred years ago and it is perhaps the greatest religious allegory of all times. Dante completed his epic poem during the last fifteen years of his life, while in exile from Florence. The piece is driven by Dante’s religious beliefs and support of the separation…

Words 1793 - Pages 8

Dantes Inferno Intro Power Point Essay

The Divine Comedy A Classical Quest through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise Paradis o Dante’s Structure: The Quest For Salvation Inferno Purgatori o DANTE ALIGHIERI  Born in Florence, May, 1265.  His family was old and of noble origin, but no longer wealthy.  He probably spent a year at the University of Bologna as part of his education, studying the Trivium and the Quadrivium, typical of Medival curriculum. BEATRICE As customary, Dante had an arranged marriage in his youth to Gemma…

Words 3578 - Pages 15

The Virgin Of The Sacred Heart Analysis

In 1927, the Corsican painter Corbellini, curator of the Fesch Museum, discovered the painting in the Ajaccio Cathedral. Indeed, Corbellini had read in the Gazette des beaux-arts an article of André Joubin describing the subject. He came in the cathedral, did a sketch of the composition and sent it to Joubin who confirmed that it was the painting searched for more than half a century, as related by Corbellini himself: “M. André Joubin après examen du croquis de notre tableau en confirme l’interprétation…

Words 1810 - Pages 8