Change In Dante's Inferno

Dante is nearing the end of his journey through Hell; his opinions change about the barbaric sinners, and he begins to believe they are evil and deserve their eternal torture. We are now in Canto XXXII and XXXIII, of Dante Alighieri’s “ The Inferno”, part of the “Divine Comedy”. He descends to the ninth circle of Hell, Cocytus. The first subsection is Caina. Here are the treacherous against blood ties. They are stuck in the thick ice on the freezing lake, with only their heads above the ice. Their sin is the lightest in Cocytus, so God allows their heads to “[bow] towards the ice”(XXXII. 37) to hide from the freezing wind. Their tears can fall, instead of sealing their eyelids shut. In the ninth Circle, Dante’s outlook on the sinners changes. He
Dante does not want to respect the sinners anymore, but decides to add to their brutal punishment. Dante then journeys to Antenora, where he finds Ruggieri and Ugolino. They plotted together and earned themselves a place in Antenora. Ruggieri starved Ugolino and his sons. When they both arrived in Hell Ruggieri became Ugolino’s aliment. Dante describes Ruggieri as making “a helmet” (XXXII.126) for Ugolino, as he gnaws at his nape. They are pinched in the ice and can barely move. Dante then progresses to the last layer of Cocytus, Ptolomea. Here are the treacherous to guests and hosts. He finds Friar Alberigo. He was banished to Hell before he died, and a demon inhabited his body. He lays on his back with only his face showing. His tears freeze his eyelids and seal them shut. He poisoned his relatives at a banquet, for revenge. Dante wants to help the Friar, however he does not feel like he does not deserve his punishment. He promises that if he speaks his name, he will help him relieve the pain of his frozen tears. If he does not sooth his agony, he will “ descend to the last rim of the ice” (XXXIII. 117). Dante exposes the sinners’ nature, they are no longer the innocent prey for the demons, but