Monday, May 13:
A Tour Of Hell
EQ: What, where, how
are sins punished in
Dante’s Inferno?
 Welcome! Gather
pen/cils, paper, wits!
 Saturday School,
Time-For-Time?
 Lecture/Presentation:
A Quick Tour of Hell
o Students Complete Chart
of Notes, Reflections
 Freewrites: Fair?
Painting by Michelangelo
(Sistine Chapel) ~ 1610
ELABLRL1: Student identifies evidence from text,
uses it for interpretation
ELABLRL2: Student identifies, analyzes, and
applies knowledge of theme
ELABLRL3: Student relates literature to historical
and modern contexts
ELABLRL4: Student writes in various genres:
essays, narratives, poems
ELABLRL5: Student acquires new vocabulary;
uses correctly reading/writing
ELABLRC1: Student reads 25 books/one million
words per year, all subjects
ELABLRC2: Student has discussion related to learning in all subject areas
ELA12W1: Student produces writing that establishes organizational structure,
sets context, engages reader, keeps focus, gives closure
ELA12W4: Student uses timed and process writing to develop, revise, evaluate
ELA12C1: Student demonstrates control of rules of English writing, speaking
ELA12LSV1: Student has student-teacher, student-student, group discussions
WorldLitComp: “Map” of Dante, Inferno
Canto,
Circle, Sin
Canto I - III:
Introduction,
The River Acheron,
and just outside
The Gate of Hell
Sinners:
The Undecided
Canto IV: Limbo,
The First Circle
Sinners:
The Unbaptized
“Virtuous Pagans”
Canto V: Minos at
The Second Circle
Sinners:
The Lustful
Describe this Describe their
sin or sins:
punishment(s):
contrapasso:
How does punishment fit?
Canto,
Circle, Sin
Describe this Describe their
sin or sins:
punishment(s):
contrapasso:
Sinners who used
A huge wall separates
Reason in their sins Upper and Lower Hell,
gather here
called the City of Dis
BIG difference between
ignoring Reason and
using Reason to Sin
How does punishment fit?
Canto VI:
The Third Circle
Sinners:
Canto VII:
The Fourth Circle
Sinners:
Cantos VII -VIII:
The Fifth Circle
Sinners:
Canto IX: Styx and
The Wall: Gate to
Lower Hell (Dis)
Canto,
Circle, Sin
Canto X - XI:
The Sixth Circle
Sinners:
Canto XII - XVII:
Seventh Circle
“General” Sin:
Three Categories::
Describe this Describe their
sin or sins:
punishment(s):
contrapasso:
How does punishment fit?
Canto,
Circle, Sin
Canto XVIII - XXX:
The Eighth Circle
(Malebolge)
“General” Sin:
Three Categories
(you choose your
favorites):
Canto XXXI - XXXIV:
The Ninth Circle
Sinners:
Describe this Describe their
sin or sins:
punishment(s):
contrapasso:
How does punishment fit?
The Third Circle: The Gluttons
Gluttony is eating, drinking, consuming more than you need.
 Gluttons take God’s goodness and produce only “filth.”
 They wallow in “filth” while more “filth” rains on them.
Charcoal drawing by Jennifer Strange, (http://inspiredbydante.com)
Fourth Circle: The Avaricious and Prodigal
Avarice is Greed; Prodigality is Wastefulness.
Artwork by Alessandro Vellutello, c. 1560.

These are
“mirror” sins:
both miss the
point of material
goodness, and
waste their lives
in activity that
accumulates or
wastes material
things unwisely.

They roll huge
stones (wasteful
work) around in
circles, in
opposite
directions,
irritating and
scolding each
other.
Fifth Circle: The Wrathful and the Sullen
Wrath is Anger directed at others.
Sullenness is grumpiness or self-pity (anger directed in).
Again, these are “mirror” sins. Both are tormented by
demons in the muddy, gross waters of the River Styx.
 The Wrathful must fight each other forever in the Styx.
 The Sullen are submerged in it.
Engraving by Gustave Doré, c. 1860.
Fifth Circle: The Wall and Gate to Dis
The sinners in
the upper circles
of Dante’s Hell
ignored Reason;
they sinned out
mental weakness.
They are separated
from sinner in the
lower circles by
the Walls of Dis,
City of Lower Hell,
in which are held
those sinners who
used Reason
to commit evil.
This painting is
from a popular
computer game
Sixth Circle: The Heretics
Heresy is rejection of some element of a True Faith.

Heresy is
lower than
atheism or
paganism
because the
Mind perverts
Truth rather
than just
rejecting or
ignoring it.

Heretics are
entombed in
burning
coffins.
Gustave Doré,
c. 1860.
Seventh Circle: The Violent
Three categories: Violent vs. Others, vs. Self, vs. God

Violent vs. Others
are tortured in
boiling blood.

Violent vs Self
(Suicides) trapped
in thorn bushes;
harpies constantly
break branches.
Some have bodies
draped over their
bushes’ branches.

Violent vs. God
walk on fire, and
fire rains down.
Includes Violence
Against Art!!
Gustave Doré,
c. 1860
Eighth Circle: The Fraudulent.
“Malebolge” (“Bad Bags,” “Sacks Of Filth”)
Pimps and
Prostitutes,
Flatterers,
Simonists,
Hypocrites,
Swindlers –
all used Reason
to deceive or
mislead.
Worst are
Gossips, the
“Sowers of
Discord,”
lower in Hell
than any
sinners except
the Traitors.
As all of these have twisted truth in life, their souls’ bodies are
twisted into horrible, painful shapes.
Gustave Doré, c. 1860
Purgatorio
(Will discuss
in class)
Paradiso
(Will discuss
in class)
First Freewrite (100 words): Limbo
So what do you think about Limbo?
Quote from Canto IV for Reading Journal Entry.
Second Freewrite (100 words): Lust
Comment on “Reason mastered by desire”
Quote from Canto V for Reading Journal Entry.
Turn In When Done:
 Reading Guide Packet, with Cantos I-V completed
 Freewrite: Limbo (Canto IV)
 Freewrite: Lust (Canto V)