Throughout time, literary works have always focused on a theme or lesson to be learned. The Inferno by Dante Alighieri is a literary work describing Hell and the sinners that have made it there. In The Inferno, Dante shows that His justice is deserved through the biblical allusion snakes and what they represent.
Hell is depicted in The Inferno by nine levels and some levels have sublevels. Every level has a different sin. Snakes are in Hell to torture and give sinners their punishment and are present in many cantos throughout The Inferno. Snakes are seen as the image of deceit because the devil formed into a snake when he deceived Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. In Canto 24, we are in the seventh pouch of the eighth circle of hell where thieves are placed. Here the snakes chase after naked sinners and coil behind the sinner’s hands and legs. When a sinner is caught, the snake bites them in between the shoulders and the soul instantly …show more content…
Those sinners like Fucci are being punished by the snake and sinner being “intermixed their colour; nor one nor other seemed now what he was” (Alighieri 166). There is always reasoning behind God’s justice and now the sinner is being forced to become one with the snake because they both are deceitful. Dante opens doors to understanding that His justice is deserved for the people whose lives are offending God. His justice is deserved through what He decides is enough punishment. Dante shows this when “together twisted, became the member that a man conceals, and of his own the wretch had two created” (Alighieri 168). When the serpent and sinner change bodies, the snake then has to go bite another sinner to be changed into human form again. It is nonstop take from one another showing their thievery even in hell. His justice is self-inflicted because of the actions and decisions made by the soul, therefore being
Hell is depicted in The Inferno by nine levels and some levels have sublevels. Every level has a different sin. Snakes are in Hell to torture and give sinners their punishment and are present in many cantos throughout The Inferno. Snakes are seen as the image of deceit because the devil formed into a snake when he deceived Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. In Canto 24, we are in the seventh pouch of the eighth circle of hell where thieves are placed. Here the snakes chase after naked sinners and coil behind the sinner’s hands and legs. When a sinner is caught, the snake bites them in between the shoulders and the soul instantly …show more content…
Those sinners like Fucci are being punished by the snake and sinner being “intermixed their colour; nor one nor other seemed now what he was” (Alighieri 166). There is always reasoning behind God’s justice and now the sinner is being forced to become one with the snake because they both are deceitful. Dante opens doors to understanding that His justice is deserved for the people whose lives are offending God. His justice is deserved through what He decides is enough punishment. Dante shows this when “together twisted, became the member that a man conceals, and of his own the wretch had two created” (Alighieri 168). When the serpent and sinner change bodies, the snake then has to go bite another sinner to be changed into human form again. It is nonstop take from one another showing their thievery even in hell. His justice is self-inflicted because of the actions and decisions made by the soul, therefore being