Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Circle 4: Hoarders and Wasters

In this level the hoarders, which is someone who hoards or keeps, and the wasters, which is someone who wastes or does not use wisely, are separated into two groups. Their punishment is that they will forever be plagued by dead weight.

While living the hoarders and wasters did not understand the true value of money and to them it was just dead weight so while in the inferno they have to continuously push around a huge weight. The hoarders push the huge weight at the wasters screaming "Why do you waste?" and the wasters push it right back screaming "Why do you hoard?" . And they continue this little charade over and over. This punishment was chosen because of their lack of judgement and control. And now they have to push this dead weight around forever.

The Christian influences that appear in this level are all of the high positions in the church. Dante puts Popes, Cardinals, and Priests all in this level signifying the corruptness of the church, or what he thought of them.

Pagan influences show up in the characters he places in the inferno like the three headed dog. And also the fact that the punishment is based on the crime. Because in Christianity, all sins are equal, lying has the same consequences as murder. This is not true with Paganism.

If Dante had to put famous people today in the inferno, he would probably put most of the celebs of our time, because some of the things they spend money on is ridiculous.
Daisy, Janna, Curtis

7 comments:

cheryl j said...

I agree with you that in Christianity all sins are equal, although there are special places in Heaven for some. I also agree that our "celebs"are wasters and would be in this level if it were up to Dante.

Sarah Sumrall said...

I, too, agree with you that all sins are equal and that the celebrities would be in this level. They waste their money all of the time of crazy things.

jan said...

I agree with Cheryl when she says that there are special places in Heaven for all.n The fact that Dante puts clergy in this level is kind of unnerving.

jan said...

Although Sarah has a point that are all sins are equal, I don't actually agreee that all celebrities would be in this level. Not all of them waste money.

Daisy said...

cherylj, I agree with you totally, and I am so glad that there is a place for everyone. But Dante had a very vivid imagination so...

Daisy said...

sarah, I think that most of society today would agree with us that all sins are equal, well,anyone that knows their Bible, so Dante would have had a rough life if he had to live during our times.

Kyle said...

I agree that all sins are equal just like a lie is a lie no matter the size. I wonder if Dante considered wasting time or procrastination to be put here..