Justice In Dante's Inferno

In Dante’s the Inferno, it is a tale about Dante going through the various circles of Hell, but throughout the background of the whole epic, God’s justice shines brightly. While the focal point of the epic is to show the journey of Dante, the justice of God becomes evident. It is a truly unforgiving and cruel object, but in good reason, to condemn sinners. Whether it is in the fitting punishments handed to the sinners, the demons that condemn them, or even Hell as a whole, God’s unforgiving justice is displayed front and center. One of the primary ways God’s justice is shown is through the contrapasso, or fitting punishment the sinner is given. In this, there are a multitude of possibilities in showing how it functions, however some are more clear than others. One of
Their severity in one side or the other, being hoarding or wasting, brings them to their fitting punishment. In all of these various punishments, and including the many that are not specifically mentioned, God’s justice begins to shine. In all of these occasions in which God punishes the sinner with a fitting consequence for their actions, it is in just reason. Every single punishment that is given out by God faces the sinner with their own sin. In other words, they have to be face to face with exactly what they did wrong. Through this, it makes it evident that in God’s justice there is absolutely no forgiveness for the sinners. The absolute best case scenario that can happen for one of these sinners in that all they not believe in God and be faced with grief of not knowing him. If they do not fall into that category, and fall into one of the worse circles in Hell, like treachery, then the sinner will face the terrible contrapasso that they deserve. Along with this, the fact that there is no hope is another aspect of God’s unrelenting justice that can be identified in the punishments. That part is found all throughout the descriptions of punishments, with the use of phrases like “roll his