While travelling through Hell, Dante describes the punishments of all the sinners. For example, when Dante reaches the Second Circle of Hell, he, “came into a place mute of all light, which bellows as the sea does in a tempest, if by opposing winds ‘tis combated. The infernal hurricane that never rests hurtles the spirit onward in its rapine; whirling them round, and smiting, it molests them. When they arrive before the precipice, there are the shrieks, the plaints, and the laments, there they blaspheme the puissance divine. I understood that unto such a torment the carnal malefactors were condemned, who reason subjugate to appetite.” (Alighieri 26). The lustful are whipped around by a powerful wind and are never able to rest. This is how
