One must remember: God sent those who did not fall in accordance to his ways to Hell, and all punishments within The Inferno were that of Minos’ judgment of the Second Circle of Hell. “There Minos …show more content…
The First Circle of Hell is offers the least amount of suffering, just as Hammurabi states in Law 200 that “If a man knock out the teeth of his equal, his teeth shall be knocked out” (Hammurabi 200). This is reasonable punishment for a minor crime, however the Second Circle of Hell and every circle following grow much greater. “Here they lie through all eternity, themselves like garbage, half-buried in fetid slush, while Cerberus slavers over them as they in life slavered over their food.” (Ciardi 44). Again, punishment is issued in a karmic manner to the gluttons of the Third Circle of Hell. The fourth circle punishes the hoarders and wasters by subjecting them to pushing massive weights which enforce order for the lack of moderation in their lives. The fifth circle, the sixth, so on and so forth, all the way down to the Ninth Circle of