Dante's Inferno Exam Questions
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Dark Wood - -Dante awakes to find himself in here. He was lead here by sin
and is approached by the she wolf, lion, and lepoard. He meets Virgil hear.
-She-Wolf - -Represents Greed; Beast Dante is most afraid of
-Leopard - -Represents Lust and Luxury
-Lion - -Represents Pride
-Virgil - -Represents Reason; Leads Dante through Hell
-Vestibule - -Those who did not chose good or evil; They will forever chase a
banner and be stung by wasps while their blood is eaten by magots; They
are given no real place in Hell because they took no stand in Life for good or
evil.
-Circle 1 - -Limbo; Virtuous Pagans; People who lived virtuous lives but
before God/lacked the revelation of Christ; They live without hope of ever
seeing God because human reason alone is not enough to get into heaven.
-Circle 2 - -Lustful; They are forever blown around by winds just as they
were blown around by their lust.
-Circle 3 - -Gluttons; Their senses are overly burdened because in life they
overly pleased them.
-Circle 4 - -Avaricious and Prodigal; They produce nothing worthful from
their work in life and Therfore Produce nothing worthful from pushing the
weights across each side of the circle in Hell.
-Circle 5 - -The angry and sullen; They are trapped in the slime of the styx
and the sullen are stuck underneath the slime and not seen.
-Circle 6 - -Heretics; They are burning in open tombs with the lead heretic
watching all those he lead astray suffer; On Judgement Day the tombs will be
eternally sealed.
-Circle 7 - -Violence; Against Neighbors, Against Self, Against God
-Circle 7 1st Ring - -Violence Against Neighbors; In Boiling Blood of the river
Phlegathon; The blood of those they were violent towards is drowing them
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