ENGL209 / Gastle
Outline of Dante’s Hell
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The Dark Wood
Dante, Virgil, The Wood, 3 Beasts (Leopard, Lion, Wolf)
The Wood
Three Ladies (Mary, St. Lucia, Beatrice)
The Vestibule - The Gate
Neutrals following changing banner; River Acheron - Charon
Limbo - Virtuous Pagans
Ref to Harrowing of Hell; Homer, Aristotle, etc (unbaptized)
Carnal Sinners
MinosTail measures sin; The Lustful (least punished sin); whirlwind
Paolo and Francesca
The Gluttons
Wallowing in garbage; Cerberus; Ciacco - Florentine Contemporary
Hoarders and Wasters:
Clashing boulders one against the other
Wrathful:
Phlegyas - ferry across Styx
The Great Parapet of Dis - Guarded by fallen angels
Pilgrims Powerless against pure evil
The Heretics:
Vast cemetery
Heavenly messenger and passage through the gate;
Virgil hides Dantes eyes
The Heretics
Farinata degli Ubertie - fellow Tuscan (personal scene)
The Heretics
Virgil outlines the divisions of lower Hell; The Coffins of the Heretics
First Round: Violent against Neighbors
Drowning in boiling blood - Alexander, Attila, Mr. Rogers
Second Round: Violent against Themselves
Wood of the suicides, bloody leaves, harpies, wolves - Kurt Cobaine
Third Round: Violent against God, Nature, & Art
Burning Sand & Fiery Rain (Sterility &Wrath): Blasphemers;
Sodomites; Usurers
Third Round: Violent Against Nature
Sodomites running perpetually across the plain; Approach The
Cliff to Eighth Circle
Third Round: Violent Against Nature & Art
Approach The Cliff to Eighth Circle;
Summoning of Geryon-Monster of Fraud
Third Round: Violent Against Art; Geryon
Usurers-Stare at purse around neck; Flight to Eighth Circle with Geryon
Malebolge (Evil Ditches) -- The Fraudulent & Malicious
Bolgia One: Panderers and Seducers
Driven to March by devils
Bolgia Two: Flatterers
Sunk in Excrement
Bolgia Three: The Simoniacs (sellers of ecclesiastical favors/offices)
Upside-down in holes with feet on fire
Bolgia Four: Fortune Tellers/Diviner
Heads turned backwards, blind with tears
Bolgia Five: The Grafters (unscrupulous use of one's position)
Sunk in boiling pitch-torn by demons if raised
Bolgia Five: The Grafters
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Debate with demons
Cantos 21 & 22 are often referred to as the "grotesque" canto
due to the interaction with the demons/gargoyles
of Bolgia Five
Bolgia Six: The Hypocrites
Slide down into the ditch
Weighed down by leaden robes
Bolgia Seven: The Thieves
Ascent out of Bolgia Six and descent into Bolgia Seven
Thieves bound and destroyed by reptiles
Bolgia Seven: The Thieves
Snakes and reptiles exchange form with victim thieves
Bolgia Eight: The Evil Counselors
Obscured by and immersed in fire; Ulysses Canto
Bolgia Eight: Evil Counselors
One of Dante's contemporaries
Bolgia Nine: Sowers of Discord
Hacked and torn asunder by demons
Sowers of: Religious Discord;
Political Discord; Familial Discord
Bolgia Ten: Falsifiers
Darkness, stench, thirst, filth, disease, noise = sum of corruption
Class I (Alchemists): Falsifiers of Things
Bolgia Ten: Falsifiers
Class II (Evil Impersonators): Falsifiers of People - chased
Class III (Counterfeiters):
Falsifiers of Money - lying
Class IV (False Witnesses): Falsifiers of Words - lying
Approach to the Central Pit - The Giants
Symbols of raw bestiality and unrestrained elemental passion
Anteus Lowers them
Cocytus: Compound Fraud
Round I (Caina) -- Treacherous to Kin
Up to neck in ice
Round II (Antenora) -- Treacherous to Country
Up to chin in ice, cannot bow head
Cocytus: Compound Fraud
Round II (Antenora) -- Treacherous to Country
Count Ugolino gnawing Archbishop Ruggieri
Round III (Ptolomea) -- Treacherous to Guests/Hosts
Half face above ice
Cocytus: Compound Fraud
Round IV (Judecca) -- Treacherous to Master
Wholly frozen
Center -- Satan (Dis)
Three heads/mouths: Judas Iscariot, Brutus, Cassius
Descent/Ascent out of Hell