WELCOME TO HELLDante’s Inferno

BEFORE WE LEAVE.. What will hell look like? What descriptions or allusions from

stories, movies, songs give us an image?

WE ARE TAKING A JOURNEY INTO HELL

How do you feel about that? Why? Because, according to Dante, in order to

achieve moral redemption, one must take a hard look at the evil world and himself first.

One must confront inner evil to reach self-knowledge.

SO WHERE DOES OUR JOURNEY BEGIN? There are 9 circles of hell Dante travels to hell with a guide, Virgil (who

is a real-life roman poet). Must travel through the Inferno, Purgatory,

and then Paradise It begins when Virgil finds Dante on Good

Friday in the year 1300…he serves as a tour guide as Dante tries to find God

Our journey is a comedy A tale that ends with a happy ending

LET’S BEGIN But where? The River of Acheron Charon must take us across the river

thru the gates of HELL

THE GATES OF HELL

ABANDON ALL HOPE

YE WHO ENTER HERE…

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LEVELS OF HELL: 1ST LIMBO

For people who have not chosen sides Heaven does not claim them and hell does not

want them. unbaptized babiesWho is in limbo? Virgil Homer Ovid Socrates

LEVELS OF HELL: 2ND Lustful Punished by Minos Blown about forever by stormy winds, just

as, in life, they were blown about by the winds of passion.

Features the lovers Francesca and Paolo Francesca was supposed to marry Giovanni, but

didn’t want to. Giovanni’s brother Paolo served as a proxy during the event, and Francesca actually fell in love with him!

LEVELS OF HELL: 3RD The Gluttonous Deprived of individuality. Each is alone, cold and miserable Are maimed by Cerberus

LIFE OF THE GLUTTONOUS They lie in putrid slush It is constantly raining and hailing

LEVELS OF HELL: 4TH The greedy/”The Hoarders”/”The

Wasters” Must roll their wealth back and forth The greedy vs. the wasters: they are

divided into two groups, each pushing boulders against each other, symbolic of their mundane existence on earth

LEVELS OF HELL: 5TH The wrathful, the sullen Must fight for eternity against each

other in filthy slime If you try to cross this swamp (Styx

River) by boat, they try to pull you in

LEVELS OF HELL: 6TH The Heretics These people denied immorality, and

therefore, denied God They lie in burning tombs because they

believed the soul dies with the body

LEVELS OF HELL: 7TH The Violent 3 rings

Violent against neighbors (murders)—immersed in a river of boiling blood

Violent against self—souls become perched on thorny trees

Violent against God, art and nature—lie in burning sand, forced to run in circles, while it rains fire

LEVELS OF HELL: 8TH The Fraudulent

Consists of: Seducers: driven by horned demons (pimps) Flatterers: Forced to wallow on a floor of excrement Simonists (those who attempt to buy the power of the holy spirit):

Buried head down and the soles of their feet are burned Fortune tellers: Bodies distorted so that the head is twisted and

they can only look down to see their back Grafters (those who gain money unfairly): Dipped in boiling tar Hypocrites: Must always walk at a steady pace Thieves: Snakes coil and bind these sinners Deceivers: wrapped in fire Scandels: hacked to pieces, put back together, and hacked up again Liars: made insane, plagued with disease and illness

LEVELS OF HELL: 9TH Treachery To family, country, and friends Frozen in a sheet of ice with only their

faces showing to expose their pain Tears freeze so that their eyes can be

stabbed Lucifer is here at the center

AFTER THE FINAL DESCENT… You have to get past Satin in order to

get out of Hell It’s not fiery and hot here, it is freezing

cold because we are the farthest away from God

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QUICK WRITTEN RESPONSE Based on all the choices, what seems

like the worst choice here?! Explain—have you ever committed a

sin that would send you here?

WHERE YOU COULD END UP? (ACCORDING TO DANTE)

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