[SOLVED] Dante Inferno
How would you re-arrange Hell? Who would you take out? Who would you put in? No unread replies. No replies. Think carefully of how Dante arranged sins in hell. The sins of the she wolf incontinence (failure to control desires) The sins of the lion violence The sins of the leopard fraud The deeper in hell, the worse the sin. Some of these placements may seem out of place in the modern world; suicides, for example, are placed lower in hell than the violent against their neighbors, and homosexuality even lower. Unbaptized children are placed in hell. Be sure to read Ciardi’s notes as you think about this topic to determine the reasons for the placement. Think carefully about the complex allegorical structure Dante created and the intensity of the symbolic punishment. Then decide who you would take out of hell. if you left them in hell, would you change the level? Consider who, from any time period, you would place in hell and where you would put them. Explain your reasoning. Explain how your thinking agreed or disagreed with Dante’s placement.
