In Dante’s Inferno, Dante who then encounters the ghost of Virgil, have to go through the nine circles of hell in order to reach Heaven. Through each circle they see the people who have committed sin and their punishments. Each sin had a different punishment depending on how bad the sin was. Most punishments went with the sins, but others didn’t. The sins that fit their punishments were the wrathful and the sullen, violence against neighbors, and for the thieves. The fifth circle of hell was where
Copying from another person during a test is looked down upon in the modern contemporary society, but there are no drawbacks as harsh as the punishments in the time portrayed by Dante Alighieri in Inferno. During this period, thieves and liars are transferred to the deepest parts of hell, where the souls are lost and tortured. In modern times, one who cheats does so by committing thievery when they steal another person’s ideas and pose it as their own without the owner’s consent or knowledge, and
in between? Both Dante’s Inferno and the Qur’an deal with this sort of underlying debate that all humans face. More specifically, both deal with the nature and origins of evil. Without evil, we wouldn’t know good, but at the same time without good we wouldn’t know evil. Nobody is perfect and it’s a guarantee that everyone has committed some sin over the course of his or her life. Whether it be something large, as in murder, crime, and violence, or something smaller such as stealing a pack of M&M’s
In the epic The Divine Comedy: Inferno by Dante, the main character, Dante, sometimes referred to as the Pilgrim, witnesses many different types of punishments depending on the sin that was committed during each soul’s life. Dante wrote the epic based upon a society that had a very fixed idea of justice compared to justice presently. The way Justice is carried out in the Dante’s work is that if the soul committed a sin, knowingly or not, they were sentenced to Hell. If the person had committed an