Examples Of Contrapasso In Dante's Inferno

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Throught Dante’s Inferno, the cantos introduce the sinners that habits in each circle, and what condemned them in earth to be there. Contrapasso is the law of nature in hell, and it is applied by maintaining the sinners in the certain circle that will punish them according to the crime that they committed. Level six, where the heretics reside, is the circle that best represents contrapasso. The heretical sinners did not believe in life after death. They claimed that the soul died with the body and that when they died, they would be in a tomb forever. “They all will be closed up when from Jehoshaphat they shall return here with the bodies they have left above” (10). They are punished in open tombs burning in flames forever, and the tombs will