First Circle: Limbo. Second Circle: Lust. Third Circle: Gluttony. Fourth Circle: Greed. Fifth Circle: Anger. Sixth Circle: Heresy. Seventh Circle: Violence. Eighth Circle: Fraud.
Furthermore, are there 7 or 9 circles of hell? Lower Hell is further subdivided: Circle 7 Violence is divided into three rings , Circle 8 Fraud is divided into ten bolge, and Circle 9 Treachery is divided into four regions.
Each circle represents its own sin: not accepting Jesus Christ as savior, lust, gluttony, greed, wrath, heresy, violence, fraud, and treachery. Each person imprisoned in the various circles is punished harshly and horribly according to the sin. This could be a reason why Lust is the Second Circle of Hell.
In the Third Circle, souls of the people who indulged in voracious feasting and appetite are tortured. The whole landscape is filled with putrefying mud and living organs.
The souls are punished by the icy and violent storm which rained foul, decaying sludge and mud onto them. The storm also rained worms and human wastes upon them. They are forced to gurgle around in the solid waste and mud. The monstrous dog beasts with three heads also lived in this circle. The souls are tormented not only for their overindulging excessive eating and drinking but also for their other addictions.
Unlike Lust, Gluttony is a self-centered sin, and, hence it is considered much more heinous. The person who condemns the sin of greed is punished in the fourth circle of hell. The Circle is divided into two groups of people- the ones who spent lavishly and those who hoarded for the great and imperial possession, which is irrelevant. Plutus, the God of Wealth, guards the inner circle of greed. It refers to people as if they lost their soul and carry a huge weight on the chest; they themselves choose to suffer to attain higher possession.
The greed indulgence of two parties has lured them in the self-pity of misery and lies, which is never enough to suffice their appetite for never-ending greed. Hoarding and squandering have led to the indifference to come to mutual antagonism. Fifth Circle of Hell is present in the stinking, decaying water of the Styx river. In this Circle live the souls who lived their entire life wrathfully. According to the poem, Dante along with Virgil find the souls to fight each other furiously on the surface of the Styx river.
Depending on the severity of their wrathful actions they sink in the river water. It reflects the type of sins they committed in their life. People who indulged in a silent sullen lie just below the surface. The people who were highly driven by their anger struggle deep inside in the river. The souls struggle and fight each other for eternity. They choke each other and stop each other from expressing or speaking.
The act represents their anger which when expressed would harm other people. The souls being tortured in the successive Circles committed heinous crimes and are punished with a severely tortured climate. The souls of people who denied the cores of Christianity are trapped in flaming hot tombs.
The souls of people who indulged in violence are put to punishment and torture in the Seventh Circle of Hell. Dante described ditches, but I prefer to think of the eight circle as being a giant cubicle farm full of phone and internet fraudsters. So … Washington, DC in February? Start earning points for buying books! Uplift Native American Stories. By Matt Staggs. Subscribe Sign up for news about books, authors, and more from Penguin Random House.
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