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Who does Dante meet in circle 7?
They meet Chiron who has one of the centaurs, Nessus, lead them through the rest of this circle.
What is the Contrapasso in canto 7?
What is the contrapasso of canto 7 the fourth circle? The people must go around the circle pushing weights and going against another group for eternity. What is the sin of canto 7/the fourth circle? People who hoarded and squandered their money.
What is the message of Canto 7?
The argument for Canto 7 tells readers that Dante meets Plutus, the deity of wealth. The circle of Hell that Plutus presides over contains the avaricious and the prodigal. The former are people who would hoard possessions and money, while the latter are people who spent too freely or wasted material things.
What is the punishment in Circle 7?
Ring One in the Seventh Circle of Hell The river of boiling blood is a punishment for violence against neighbors, including murders and war crimes.
What is sin to Dante?
Dante confesses to Beatrice Portinari, his idolized perfect woman he loved since childhood, to only two sins: Lust and Pride. He does not really tell on himself. Dante shields Beatrice and his readers from his real problem, the one that probably extended his exile for the duration of his life.
What does it mean to be violent against God?
First, they can offend God directly through blasphemy, which can include sacrilegious speech about God which evinces a lack of reverence for God, or any or sacrilegious actions against holy things (eg, trampling on the Eucharist, which is believed to be the body and blood of Christ).
What is the climax of Inferno?
Climax. The climax of The Inferno would have to be when Dante and Virgil enter the final circle of hell, the 9the circle. The 9th circle is reserved for the souls that have committed the sin of treachery and treason. These souls are frozen beneath a lake known as Cocytus.
What is Dante goal in the Inferno?
It is in small nuances like this that we can see Dante’s true purpose: his main goal is to make hell real to the common man. At the same time, he is artistically bound by the source material, and since he cannot change the Bible, he is forced to add to it.
What did Dante learn in the Inferno?
As the story progresses, Dante must learn to reconcile his sympathy for suffering with the harsh violence of God’s justice; the deeper he proceeds into Hell, the less the agonies of the damned affect him.