Punishments In Dante's Punishment

Dante is undoubtedly biased in his punishments and rankings of his sins as a result of his personal thoughts and experiences. Although some of his punishments are fairly reasonably and match the crime, there are also some circles that are in the wrong order and have unjustified punishments. A few of the circles that are the most disagreeable include limbo, the lustful, violence against self, and complex fraud. These specific circles are disagreeable because Dante ranks them based on his own experiences and thoughts. Hell could also be redesigned in a completely different way to make it more reasonable. Dante’s divine comedy has some major biased within it, making the sins and punishments arrangements arguable, and able to be completely redesigned.

Sinners in this section are punished for their lust. The punishment that they have to endure is to be ripped apart by vicious winds (Dante 41). This circle has people included in it that shared a mere kiss with a married person. One lady that is being punished in this section fell in love and kissed her husband’s brother while reading a steamy romantic book (Dante 43). The sinners in this circle are unjustly punished and there should be more fitting punishments. Along with more fitting punishments there should be different levels of punishments based on how severe of lechery was committed. Dante had a lot of different reasons for putting the lustful sin in this order. One reason that he had for doing this is because of self-pity for himself. His love for Beatrice would have placed him in this circle and he realized this. He placed this sin really low on the scale because he knew he was prone to committing this sin. Dante’s own personal experience influenced his decision to put the lustful as only the second circle in the organization of

In my personal opinion I think that the first circle of Hell should be people who committed petty sins that would barely classify them as a “sinner”. This circle would contain a various amount of different people that told little lies and similar sins but still lived fairly good lives for the most part. In this circle it would include greedy people and wasters that did not affect anyone’s lives in a positive or negative way. The next layer I think should be slightly more severe fraud such as telling lies for gain. The third circle of hell I would say would be all types of betrayal. I would put those sinners here unless they committed murder along with betrayal, then they would be lower in hell. After betrayal in the fourth circle of Hell should be the lustful. In this circle there would be different degrees of lustfulness. These different levels would depend on the level, amount, and overall situation that caused one to commit lechery. For example a woman with an abusive husband who kissed another man would be really low in this circle. On the other hand a man married to a sweetheart who slept around with many woman would be punished worse. Next in the fifth circle of hell would be the violence sinners. Violence against self would not even be a sin in my Hell. The violence against god sinners would be punished worse than the violence against nature ones. The