TOo much to do

Bolg6 Hypocrites

weighted down by giant leaden robes walking 4 ever

Friars Catalano and Loderingo

Bolge7 Theives and the buyers of stolen goods

Snakes run around bite you and turn you into a snake

Vanni Fucci

Bolge8 False Council

souls burning and on fire for eternity

Puccio Sciancato

Bolge9 Scandal and schism

people are hacked and ripped apart by a big demon with a sword. they slowly peace themselves back togehter and then find the demon to get slaughtered again

Mohammed 

Bolge10 Those who falsified in life

Plauged with different types of illnesses, including leprosy, rabies, and Sexual Diseases

Capocchio

Cantos23-25

Canto XX-XXII

CantoXX Line1 "The new pains of Hell that I saw next demand
New lines for this CantoXX..."
The character Dante and Dante have become blurred, or at least Dante is providing narration now. This line makes it seem like Dante, the writer, experienced Hell for himself, as though he is not writing fiction from the point of view of a character Dante, but himself. This makes the book all more powereful because he is not just suggesting all these people are in Hell who he knows but they are truly their, because he saw them with his own eyes.

CantoXXI Line "So it will not be seen That you are here, find some jagged outcrop and crouch behind it..."
The people being flung into the boiling tar are those who sold their votes and opinions in public office. The black Demon is running around and grabbing people who are accused of this so it is a little ironic that Dante does not have his character thrown into the pit. However this is the first time in the book where Dante hides, interesting that it is done here, because this is the crime Dante was Exiled for. Could Dante be saying something by having to hide and needing to be escorted away from the pits by Demons?



CantoXXII Line80 "Do you , O Malacoda, think I could get
Through all of your defenses safely as this
Except by HEaven's will and happy fate?"
I kinda feel bad for the Demons here. They are just trying to make these wrong doers suffer but even in their own layer they are living in the fear of God. Once Virgil mentions that he is there becaues God wills it they get all teary eyed because they can't do anything to him. This shows a little of how religious Dante is as the mentioning of Gods name makes a pack of the 8th level Demons powerless against them.

Cantos 7teen, 8teen, and 9teen

pg171 Line9 "...his face was a just man's face, outwardly kind"

Geryon has the face of a kind man but the body of a serpent among other things. The serpent is thought to be a trickster, originally causing the fall of man kind in the garden of Eden. Geryon is also very bright giving a magic sort of theme and then disapears "like an arrow" when he lands. This is possibly why this creature is guarding the layer of Hell where frauds, sorcerers and liars live. However the name Geryon is borrowed from Greek Mythology from a three headed three bodied monsters whose main roll was to be slain by Hercules when he steels his red cattle. I don't quite understand why Dante chose the name Hercules other than it's the name of a monster who has three bodies and three heads and would be a pretty sweet gate keeper. But im working on why he did and I read a story about Hercules...

pg187 Line125 "...and is my favor with you great?" Replied, "enormous"

Dante has now (I think) thrown somebody into Hell because he has a large penis. Here Dante tells the man who is covered in human feces to look ahead to the strumpet in front of him. I am beginning to wonder the reasons why Dante was exiled, I'm starting to think it was because he was an asshole.

pg191Line1 Simon Magus was a false

Take A Spin at The Wheel?

So what I understand is that these three men are politicians who tried to appose the invasion that ended up leading to the fall of Florence. So these men are put in hell because they all worked together to protest this war which is why they form a wheel as wheels help move stuff and make it easier. However I thought that Dante liked Florence so im not really sure why he would throw people who tried to protect Florence in Hell, but then Dante seems to hate everybody so im really not that surprised. The men could possibly be in Hell because they are politicians and Dante hates anybody with any power what so ever. Either way they are pictured as wrestler because they went against some type of war and they are in a wheel because the men worked together to destroy something.

Cantros 13-14-15

Cantro13 pg129 Line9 "Here the repellent Harpies make their nests,.."
The harpies are placed in Dante's Hell at a fitting point. Harpies are thought to be creatures of torture and used to punish people on their way to Tartarus in other books. Dante mentions the harpies steeling the food from the Trojans because it gives them a greater sense of power, being able to make a strong army suffer as well as the idea of taking their comfort away. Something the trees that are people are definatly lacking.

Cantro14 pg147 Line108 "..Toward the pit by left turns always down"
I wonder if always turning left is ment to signify Hell more. The right hand or right side "of the father" is more Holy, giving the verse "and sits and the right hand of the father" Dante might have made the voyage into Hell a left turning passage to reinforce this idea.

Cantro15 pg157 Line114 "...I see new smoke rise, where appear new souls...and he went off, seeming to me like one of those who run competing for the green cloth.."
This is possibly one of the worst images in the book so far. When new souls hit the sand they smoke. Likely because all of their flesh is burnt off in a sizzling puff of smoke. Then after this the guy Dante is talking to Runs off at race pace to dodge the flames. The man is destined to run about for eternity suffering because he is being hit by flames and likely to be extremely tired. Or he can sit down and burn to death without being able to move. Either way he can't really win, even though it seems like not sitting around would be better.

Cantro 9

pg91 Line91 "...he was sent to us by heaven"
Like the Aneid was for Rome The INferno seems like it is an Epic for Dante himself. He puts the angle in the city to let him in to reinforce that he is ment to be going on his journey through hell and that it is important enough for God to send an Angel to help him.

pg93 Line109 "The lids were raised with sound of woe so great..."
The more original idea of hell is people sitting around burning to death and the most basic idea of why you would go to hell is because you did not believe in God. It fitting and interesting that Dante chose to place the non-believers where they will burn for eternity, both basic ideas.

pg97 Line25 "I possibly wrought excessive harm"
It is weird that Dante Travels through hell so unnoticed or seemingly to us. Is Dante choosing to not write about it? It seems like a live soul Traveling through hell would draw more attention than he does with only a few people recognizing him.