December 10, 2015
Mrs. Doucette
Inferno reflection piece
Option 1
Is there a relationship between sin and punishment? I think so. Each sinner of their circle had to match a punishment to their crime. In the first circle (Limbo) are the unbaptized and the virtuous pagans. The first circle are punished by living in a fake form of Heaven. A good example of how the two are connected. In the second circle the lust are punished. They receive a violent wind in this tornado and they are never able to touch anyone else only seeing all these other lovers.
Many symbols of this are throughout Dante’s inferno. The gluttons lay in vile and have heavy rain pour on them. Lower Hell is reserved for the Violent and the Frauds. Here, in the