To this point in The Inferno, we have learned about sins and symbolic retribution through Circle 7. Which contrapasso do you feel is the mostsymbolic and befitting to the sin? Explain. Which contrapasso do you feel is the least symbolic and unbefitting to the sin. Explain. You must respond with at least 100 words, but you need only respond to me.
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Cacey Winter
11/14/2014 03:24:34 am
I feel the most fitting contrapasso is for incontinence. Since in their life the sinners were always out of control they are being blown around in a windstorm in Hell. It's blowing their bodies out of control like they lived their lives out of control. It's almost a very simply contrapasso but it fits almost identical to what their sin was. The least fitting contrapasso was the sinners pushing the boulders around and around endlessly shouting at the others for what they had done. The hoarders and the wasters are the sinners and I don't feel that endlessly pushing boulders around is a good punishment. I doesn't fit all that well to me for their sin. They're continuously shouting at one another and it just seems that they're pushing boulders around because that have to and there isn't really a contrapasso between the two.
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Ryon Shaw
11/14/2014 05:07:33 am
I think the most fitting contrapasso is that of the suicides in circle seven. I think that compared to the other sinners, their punishment is much more detailed and tailored to their specific sin. Because they mistreated their bodies in life, they're denied a human form in hell and are encased in gnarled trees. They can only speak when the harpies eat at them because they expressed self destruction to such a degree that their own bloodshed is now the only way that they can speak. To top it off, on judgement day they won't receive their bodies because they made the choice to give them up, so their bodies will hang from their limbs so that they will have to look forever at what they had given up. The punishment that I think fits the least is that of the hoarders and wasters in circle four. They're forced to run boulders at each other only to have them fall back down and make them repeat the action, but unlike the suicides their contrapasso doesn't seem nearly as detailed or thought out.
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Michael McKinney
11/14/2014 05:07:42 am
I feel like the sinners that have the most fitting contrapasso is the wrathful and the wasters, as they are sentenced to continually fight and argue with each other due to the fact that they argued and fought all of their life, so continuing the habit is the karma they most definitely deserve! I feel that the sinners who have the most unfitting contrapasso is those who were not baptized or were born before Christ. In my opinion, these people did not have the choice to control whether or not they were born before Christ. Also, I feel that their contrapasso is the most unfitting due to the fact that they just sit in Hell, when honestly most of these people probably deserve to be in Heaven or at least be considered for the matter.
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Ashley Venable
11/14/2014 05:10:42 am
The contrapasso that fits a sin the most in the book to me are the Gluttons. Since they decided to live their lives as pigs, they get the same treatment. Laying in their own filth, they are forced to wallow away forever in their sin. The other great fit to this, is the fact that they are feasted upon by Cerberus, but never fully used as his meal, their wounds heal and they are continued to be tortured. The contrapasso that seems the least fitting seems to be the Hoarders and the Wasters. I understand that the point is to seem like they are forever going against each other and wasting time, but it just does not seem like it completely fits. They wasted and hoarded their whole lives and all they get for a punishment is smashing boulders back and forth to each other. The wasters should have to be up to their necks in their waste, and the hoarders should have nothing to hoard, nothing to keep. The wasters should get more and more things around them to where they are swimming, and the hoarders should have everything taken away. It just seems like it the actual punishment does not fit.
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Jaydon E
11/14/2014 05:11:21 am
I think the most fitting is the opportunists. They are the ones who sat on the sidelines and only looked out for themselves, never believing, or defending a greater cause. Their punishment is to always feel something, by getting stung by wasps and hornets while chasing a banner. All they know is the feeling of wanting to get away. The least fitting is the lustful. I don't see how whirling winds is the opposite to lusting for someone. But that's just me, I know some people think it's the most fitting. I don't get it though..
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Nicole Gieselman
11/14/2014 05:12:34 am
The most fitting contrapasso in Dante's "Inferno" is for the souls of the flatterers, found in the second bolgia of circle eight. In life, these people constantly used false compliments to manipulate those around them. Everything they said was excrement. Now, as they buried those around them in metaphorical waste, they are literally buried in it. The punishment that is the least fitting is that of the simoniacs. In the beginning, their imprisonment in a fiery baptismal font is fitting. However, unlike souls in the other circles, their torment is not eternal. Once someone comes and takes their place, they fall into a deep crevice, which has little connection to their actual sin and is not as severe of a punishment as one would expect so deep in Hell.
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Kim Harrison
11/14/2014 05:14:32 am
All but one of the punishments were rather befitting in my opinion. The one that I did not see fit was the Vestibule, whose occupants Dante thinks is worse than that of those actually in Hell. I understand that in the battle between good and evil when Lucifer and his followers rebelled against Christ, some of the angels stood by and then “joined” Christ in the end, but as far as people go, there’s no real epic battle between what is pure and what is evil. I’m not saying those who don’t do bad things should be guaranteed a spot in Paradise, because they have to earn that by doing good things as well. What I am saying is that I don’t think they should be punished for not choosing sides. They didn’t do any wrong, they weren’t like the Heretics who chose God but went against his word in Circle 6. They should be treated like the limboers, stuck in a perpetual lack of hope and God’s love.
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Adam Rush
11/14/2014 05:18:08 am
I feel like the best punishment for sin so far would have to be for the gluttony. The reason I think this is because they didnt use any of there talents for any good. The only thing these people in this circle did do was lay around and eat/drink and produce filth. So for there punishment they for the rest of eternity will have to lay around in there own waste while sludge rains on them. One of the least symbolic circles I think would have to be the continuosly pushing of the bolders and yelling at each other for the rest of eternity.
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Dalyn Chapman
11/14/2014 05:21:28 am
I think that the most fitting symbol is in circle 7 about the sins who committed violence against themselves. These sins are the most fitting because they receive karma for what they did to themselves and have to live with being dark gloomy trees. The least fitting is the Lustful because all they want to do is lust and they aren't going anywhere besides just staying where they are.
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Janell Johnson
11/16/2014 07:08:58 am
I think that the most fitting contrapasso would have to be in circle 7 for violence against themselves. Their punishment is getting turned into thorny trees and their leaves being eaten by the Harpies. Since they couldn’t respect their body when they were living they don’t get to be in their own body in the afterlife. I think that the least fitting contrapasso would have be in circle 4 for the hoarders and the wasters. Their punishment is pushing boulders while clashing their boulders into one another and yelling at each other, then they turn around and begin all over again.
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Abby Hughes
11/16/2014 08:01:29 am
I think that the contrapasso for the Gluttons is the most befitting. In circle three it talks very vividly about what these sinners are stuck with. Because they lived their life in utter filth (eating and drinking too much) they now are forced to basically live the life of a pig. Not only do they have to lay in their own "nastiness", they also get the fair welcome from Cerberus as he chews on them, creating wounds. However, he treats them as dog toys and never fully eats them. This allows the sinners to be tortured over and over. The least fitting contrapasso has to be for the Hoarders and Wasters. In life all they did was waste things that were valuable and hoard things that weren't necessary to keep. Their contrapasso is pushing boulders back and forth towards each other in a circle. While doing this they are yelling at one another. Yes, I agree that the two sinners are opposites and disagree what the other one is doing but in my opinion they should have been given a more suitable punishment. Unlike the gluttons, this contrapasso could have been pondered about longer in order to find a more fitting punishment.
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Camry Holle
11/16/2014 11:50:35 am
I think the contrapasso that fits a sin is the Gluttons. Since they were greedy pigs in life, they are forced to be pigs in hell. They lay in their own filth and are forced to be immersed in their sins forever. If that isn't enough for Cerberus chews on them. The most unfitting contrapasso is the ones who were born before Christ or were not baptized. Neither hell or heaven wants them, so they do not belong in a category. They could not control if they were born before or after Christ.
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Cole Hanken
11/17/2014 03:41:04 am
The most fitting contraposso I think would be the wrathful and having them fight all there lives and being angry at everything. So they just get to continue doing what they've done their whole life's.
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