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Dante depicts the first layer of hell as a never ending line. Limbo is the fate of the
souls undecided, where those who neither feared God nor betrayed him ended up,
waiting for a judgement day that would never come. My punishment for this would be to
force the souls to watch what could have happened if they had believed. They would
have to watch over, and over again how much happier they would have been. Daniel
Radcliffe would be on this level along with Kara Knightly who are both known atheists.
I believe Dantes punishment for lust was beautifully poetic and tragic. Lovers
forever being drawn together within touching distance only to be ripped away by a
unmerciful wind. I especialy appreciate his use of the storm as a metaphor for their lust,
strong, uncontrollable and uncaring of what it leaves in its wake. Like the poet I would
use a element with the same impact fire. The souls would have to forever see each
other but only through a wall of flames. Barely in reaching distance but as soon as they
reached out they would be burned the way they had burned the victims of their affair.
I would send Jessie James, not the American outlaw born in the 19th century,
but the man who had had multiple affairs with multiple women against his wife Sandra
Bullock.
The punishment for gluttony in The Inferno was that you are continuously pelted
with rain and hail, then forced to eat the putrid dirt from the effects. To add to the cruelty
they are forever eaten by Cerberus (in Greek mythology his is the dog of Hades,the god
of the underworld, and the guard dog to the gates of the realm) a monstrous, three
headed beast with an unquenchable hunger. I believe that is a bit drastic considering
that we could all be thought a gloton in some aspect. My punishment would be that the
thing they desired most in the world they would be able to get, but soon everything
would turn into that specific thing. The Midas touch, the ancient Greek king who desired
gold above all things. The gods granted him the the ability to turn whatever he touched
to gold: his food, drink, servants and eventually his only daughter. The sinner I would
For Greed I would allow the sinners to know what they desire most at the end of
a never ending labyrinth. They would search and fight for what they desired above all
else much as they did when they were alive, only now they would never obtain it. Here I
The victims of wrath in the story would forever fight just below the surface of the
river Styx. Fire fits this sin just as well as lust but I believe it is serve as poetic justice to
use the opposite element here; ice. Because in their life they could not cool their
tempers, they are to forever wander subzero temperatures with little to nothing on or with
them. They would be forced to rely on the kindness of others to make their eternity more
bearable. A candidate for this punishment would be Chris Brown (who I believe should
Heresy was punished by spending eternity inside a flaming tomb in The Inferno. I
however, believe a more fitting punishment would be that they are filled with confusion
and for ever being told a lie by others. If the guilty were to ask where they were, they
would be told somewhere completely opposite and any truth they were ever told would
be skewed and morphed until it was barely a fact, which may confuse the soul even
more. Much like the lies they had told the victims of when they were alive. No one more
To thoses who brought violence onto others, they would be subjected to varying
degrees of pain either matching what they caused others or 1000 times that depending
on the audacity of their crime. Serial killers such as Jeffrey Dahmer or Aileen Wuornos
and false prophets. Like the violence there are many different types and degrees of this
sin so the consequences should be equally as broad. These souls should forever have
something taken from them like they had taken from others. The politician who had
stolen millions of dollars from those who only wanted to continue their education should
have everything stolen from them then forced to see the effect their actions had on the
victims and the victim's family over and over again for the rest of their existence. Vice
Dante saw this as the worst sin anyone could ever commit. To the extent to which
he thought they deserved to be forever chewed and eaten by the devil. My punishment
for this should be that they are to see all of the world's evil. I do not believe that those
who committed treachery deserve a worse fate than the ones who acted in violence. The
betrayal similar to Julius Caesar and his best friend Brutus is Robert Ford and Jesse
James (the American outlaw who was born in the 19th century). Jesse was shot in the
back like Julius was stabbed in the back. Both died at the hand of someone they trusted
in similar fashion.