Dantes Inferno Test Flashcards
What is the punishment and symbolism for the lobby
They are chasing a flying scroll that they will never catch. They are being attacked by insects, and there eyes are bleeding
(Before They were in hell, they decided not to make a decision, and now they are compelled to make a decision to chase the scroll.)
What are the levels of hell in order
- limbo
- lustful
- gluttonous
- greed
- wrathful/sullen(anger)
- heretics
- wrath(violence)
- fraud
- Trechary
What type of people live in the lobby, any notable
The people who reside here are the angels who did not take a side in the war between god and lucifer. (Charon)
What is the punishment and symbolism for circle 1
The residents are in a flowery meadow eternally sighing because they will never know god.(this is symbolic because in life they didn’t know god and now they are sad about it)
What type of people reside in circle 1(any notable)
People who did not know god.
Plato,Aristotle, Virgil, homer
What is the punishment and symbolism for the people who reside in circle 2
The people who committed lust are buffeted around and around in a tornado. They are eternally able to look at what they want, but aren’t able to touch eachother
(People who committed lust in life are able to see what they lust for, however they never do what they want to it.)
What type of people reside in circle 2(any notable)
People who committed lust in life
Francesca, paolo, and Midas
What is the punishment and symbolism for the people who reside in circle 3
The people who were in this level are laying in mud, while being pounded on by weather, then they are eternally eaten by cerberus
(This is symbolic because in life, they ate and ate, and were never full, now, in hell, cerberus eats and eats and is never full)
What type of people reside in circle 3 (any notable)
People who were addicted to eating and drinking during life
Hungry jacko/ciacco, and Cerberus
What is the punishment and symbolism for the people who reside in circle 4
The people in this level are eternally pushing boulders in a circle, then collide, and turn around and walk the same path in reverse inly to do it again.
(In life they were in an endless circle of spending and hoarding, now they are endlessly pushing a boulder.)
What type of people reside in circle 4 (any notable)
People in this level are people who were very greedy.
Hoarders and spenders, hades and priests
What is the punishment and symbolism for circle 5
The people who physically fought wre eternally fighting in a bog, the people who kept it bottled up were crying underneath them
(This is symbolic because in life they fought and now they do to, also in life they bottled it up, now they cant say anything)
What type of people reside in circle 5 (any notable)
People who our wrathful and fought in life
Filippo argenti, people who physically fought, and people who bottled it up.Fliggeas
What happens at the gates of dis and why does Dante flip out
The backstage pass is denied, but then Gabriel comes and saves them
Notable people from the gates of dis
Furies, Gabriel, medusa
What is the punishment and symbolism for the residents of circle 6
They reside in burning tombs
In life they burned with their words by spreading slander, but now they burn in tombs
Who resided in circle 6
The heretics( went away from what gods said)
What are the rings in circle 7
- Violent against your neighbors
- Suicides
- Blasphemes and sodomites
What is the punishment and symbolism for ring 1 of wrath(7)
Violent against ones neighbors: reside in a boiling river of blood, centaurs roam the banks and shoot everyone who tries to get out.
-this is symbolic because they caused bloodshed in life, and now blood is there punishment.
What is the punishment and symbolism for ring 2 of wrath(7)
Ring 2. Suicides, they are turned into trees which can feel pain, the harpies eternally torture them by ripping off leaves and limbs.
-since they denied life, they are deprived of bodies and turned into trees, that feel pain, and bleed when broken,
What is the punishment and symbolism for ring 3 of wrath(7)
Blasphemes (saying stuff that offends god) they reside in a fiery desert, with raining flakes on them
sodomites (homosexuals) must eternally run in the fiery flakes
usurers (like a loan shark, he makes money off of another person) must eternally sit in the fiery flakes.