Examples Of Pride In Dante's Inferno

Pride, Envy, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Greed, and Sloth, are the seven deadly sins used by Chaucer in his tales. Pride is the belief in oneself being, of acting better than someone else. Therefore Pride is used in many ways, in Dante’s inferno he uses Pride in Canto 1 line 4. As he states, “Ah me how hard a thing it is to say”. He is talking about how difficult it is to speak of his experience in hell, in addition he is taking pride in telling the story. It is not so much that it is a bad thing in this line but he taking pride in telling his story since his experience was something that many do not tell. As a sin it is considered a classical sin in which one has love for oneself and hatred for others, thinking that they are better. Having pride for oneself over someone else is sinful but in this case Dante is referring to only himself and no one else. Envy is the desire of having other traits that you don’t have. For instance in canto 7, The god of the under Pluto’s is envy of wealth makes him the guard of the 4th circle due to all the gold silver and diamonds in the underground. He becomes Envy of all the riches in the underworld. This sin is used due to the hoarders in circle 4, in which those who are envy of riches are punished by carrying heavy weights around.

In the third circle Dante is found in a cold mucky place where cerberus the hellhound takes care of this circle. Cerberus is a glutton just like the sinners themselves in this circle, he eats the sinners to his content in which he keeps eating and eating. Gluttony makes the third circle into a sort of pig pin, where every soul is rolling around in muck, and just like how a pig is that eats with incompetence of stopping. The souls are, later on devoured only to leave cerberus with a big belly full of