If someone has done multiple major sins, where would they be positioned in the inferno according to Dante? Dante’s greatest work, The Inferno, tells the story of many individuals who have sinned, and it categorizes them into different levels depending on what they did. Using his guidelines, many stories of people could be placed into the inferno. Sometimes it is quite easy to see where someone would be placed, for instance, if they committed a murder, they would be drowning in a river of blood. If someone was gluttonous, they would be tortured with uncomfortable sensory elements. Three women in history that are well known within the lore of Greek mythology; Clytemnestra from Aeschylus’s play Agamemnon, Myrrha from Ovid’s Book of Metamorphosis,
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Pygmalion is about an artist who commits some terrible things, but the last part of the story is about his daughter, Myrrha. Myrrha is guilty of suicide and lust for her father. A key part of her story is when she realizes her feeling are wrong. “… She would marry a man just like you … the virgin lowers her head, self-convicted of evil” (1124. 446-449). She realizes that she is wrong in her feelings, but worst of all she acts upon them and actually sleeps with her father. She can’t live with herself and then askes the gods to put her in a place where neither death or life can reach her. She is then turned into a tree, a sort of suicide. This kind of answers where Dante would put her, since she ends up as a tree at the end of the story, but her feelings are what define her. If she where to go to the inferno, Dante would put her in the lust category where the residents are stuck in a hurricane like wind, constantly moving about. She does commit a sort of suicide but its why she does do it that convicts …show more content…
She is the proud ruler of Carthage, and welcomes the main character, Aeneas, into her home. Quickly, she falls in love with the handsome traveler, where she commits to an affair with him out of wedlock. But after the rumors spread, her lover decides that its his time to return to his destiny of starting a new empire. She becomes heart broken and commits quite an atrocious suicide that could be seen by the travels on the way out to sea. Throughout the story she commits the sin of lust and suicide. The one that most know her by is her extravagant suicide. “Her women see her doubled over the sword, the blood/ foaming over the blade, her hands splattered red” (1043. 824-825). Dante, if he were to place her in the inferno, he would place her in circle 7. She would become a poisonous tree planted next to all the other suicide victims before her. Yes, her lust caused her to do this, but the suicide that abandoned her loyal city is the action that would be seen as her main
Pygmalion is about an artist who commits some terrible things, but the last part of the story is about his daughter, Myrrha. Myrrha is guilty of suicide and lust for her father. A key part of her story is when she realizes her feeling are wrong. “… She would marry a man just like you … the virgin lowers her head, self-convicted of evil” (1124. 446-449). She realizes that she is wrong in her feelings, but worst of all she acts upon them and actually sleeps with her father. She can’t live with herself and then askes the gods to put her in a place where neither death or life can reach her. She is then turned into a tree, a sort of suicide. This kind of answers where Dante would put her, since she ends up as a tree at the end of the story, but her feelings are what define her. If she where to go to the inferno, Dante would put her in the lust category where the residents are stuck in a hurricane like wind, constantly moving about. She does commit a sort of suicide but its why she does do it that convicts …show more content…
She is the proud ruler of Carthage, and welcomes the main character, Aeneas, into her home. Quickly, she falls in love with the handsome traveler, where she commits to an affair with him out of wedlock. But after the rumors spread, her lover decides that its his time to return to his destiny of starting a new empire. She becomes heart broken and commits quite an atrocious suicide that could be seen by the travels on the way out to sea. Throughout the story she commits the sin of lust and suicide. The one that most know her by is her extravagant suicide. “Her women see her doubled over the sword, the blood/ foaming over the blade, her hands splattered red” (1043. 824-825). Dante, if he were to place her in the inferno, he would place her in circle 7. She would become a poisonous tree planted next to all the other suicide victims before her. Yes, her lust caused her to do this, but the suicide that abandoned her loyal city is the action that would be seen as her main