The Wretched Violators of Dress Codes

Dante the poet based his punishments on his medieval mindset. He believes that one should follow the standards and norms set by the authority unless the authority is corrupt. Violating the standards is a sin because it engenders chaos. Dante believes that certain sins deserve harsher punishments. One way Dante determines the degree of punishment is by comparing how much chaos the person created to that of other sinners. A person who is more sinful and creates more chaos is punished more brutally than those who committed minor sins. Dante would view the violation of the dress code as a combination of fraud, violence and incontinence; therefore those who violate the dress code should be condemned to extremely severe punishments.
Conformity requires everyone to be forced into certain behaviors so that there is order and peace. Dante believes the wrathful should be punished because they have no control over their actions. Their wild, irrepressible behaviors disrupt the orthodoxy of the society because orthodoxy requires that everyone is forced into behaving appropriately. Because the wrathful have no control over their temper, they are in the Fifth Circle of Inferno, violently attacked while covered in a muddy slime. They are brutally attacked by others: “They struck each other with hands alone, / but with their heads and chests and with their feet, / and tore each other piecemeal with their teeth” (7. 112-114). As they attack each other, they suffer further pain as their teeth are twisted: “At this, the Florentine, gone wild with spleen, began to turn his teeth against himself” (8.61-3). In contemporary times, when there is no higher authority ruling over the students, students may go against the set customs, such as the dress code ...

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...y create social disunity and gather followers, just as how Mohammed had gathered his followers. There will be a split in the school between those who agree with the dress code policy and those who disagree. Therefore, the violators of dress code should also have their bodies severed because they cause schisms in their schools.
The dress code is a set custom of the school; therefore violation of the dress code policy is a major offence to orthodoxy. When schools lack enforcement of the rules, students are unrestrained and can act inappropriately. Violating the dress code can also be an act of impersonation, in which a student changes his look and identity to match that of somebody else, and an act of dissension. Hence, dress code violators should suffer all the punishments of the Wrathful, the Falsifiers of Others’ Person, and the Sowers of scandals and schisms.