Examples Of Justice In Dante's Inferno

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Dante’s opinion of justice reveal that he thinks that that the punishment should fit the offence.In the third Circle which is reserved for gluttony, he writes that their punishment is that “it rains garbage and they had to stand in worms decomposing the mess”(5.2). It’s fitting because over-indulgence is grotesque, ugly, and causes waste, in which the sinners must live in for eternity.And the Ninth Circle of hell is for traitors and backstabbers,where they are frozen in a lake up to their heads. This is fitting of their crime because they are cold and lacking a soul,which according to Dante is need for sacred betrayal.In Inferno Dante's character often expresses pity for those in the different levels of hell.I feel that this although not a