Layers Of Dante's Inferno
The divine comedy is a book written by Dante Alighieri who is narrating the story of himself who is still mortal, and who is guided through the three different layers of the afterlife by Virgil. Dante is essentially getting a second chance on his life after this journey that is embraced by Dante. These different layers are started off with the Inferno which is the world’s version of Hell. After that, it is onto Purgatorio which is the between layer of Hell and Heaven where the souls are on the right track but still have to experience pain and suffering while on their way to the greatness. Then the final layer which is Paradiso and that is essentially known by people in the church as Heaven. All three of these layers are different which begin
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The Inferno layer is separated into nine different circles based by what sin was committed when alive. Though this may be odd for Christians, the oddest thing about these circles might be how Dante has them placed within the different sin categorizes and who ends up where. Such as the first being the Limbo circle where unbaptized babies go, and the final being the Treachery circle where people who betrayed their own kin end up at with 4 rounds of seriousness of sin. Along with the final circle of the Inferno, the description of what Satan looks like through Dante’s eyes, “The emperor of the despondent kingdom so towered—from midchest—above the ice, that I match better with a giants’ height than giants match the measure of his arms; now you can gauge the size of all of him if it is in proportion to such limbs. (P. 210, 28-33).” Along with that, how Satan had three heads and in each of them a person inside of one, “That soul up there who has to suffer most,” my master said: “Judas Iscariot—his head inside, he jerks his legs without. Of those two others, with their heads beneath, the one who hangs from that black snout is Brutus—see how we writhes and does not say a word! That other, who seems so rebuts, is Cassius. But night is come again, and it is time for us to leave; we have seen everything.” (P. 211, 61-69). Then finally how everything in the final circle is frozen solid due
The Inferno layer is separated into nine different circles based by what sin was committed when alive. Though this may be odd for Christians, the oddest thing about these circles might be how Dante has them placed within the different sin categorizes and who ends up where. Such as the first being the Limbo circle where unbaptized babies go, and the final being the Treachery circle where people who betrayed their own kin end up at with 4 rounds of seriousness of sin. Along with the final circle of the Inferno, the description of what Satan looks like through Dante’s eyes, “The emperor of the despondent kingdom so towered—from midchest—above the ice, that I match better with a giants’ height than giants match the measure of his arms; now you can gauge the size of all of him if it is in proportion to such limbs. (P. 210, 28-33).” Along with that, how Satan had three heads and in each of them a person inside of one, “That soul up there who has to suffer most,” my master said: “Judas Iscariot—his head inside, he jerks his legs without. Of those two others, with their heads beneath, the one who hangs from that black snout is Brutus—see how we writhes and does not say a word! That other, who seems so rebuts, is Cassius. But night is come again, and it is time for us to leave; we have seen everything.” (P. 211, 61-69). Then finally how everything in the final circle is frozen solid due