Inferno
In the Inferno, by Dante Alighieri he discusses the different stages of hell, he starts off with the least harmful sinners, which are the opportunities and end with the worst sinners of all the fraudulent. Somewhere in between the least harmful sinners and the worst sinners of all is where Francesca da Rimini and Count Ugolino were found. Dante acts very differently to each of these people when he sees them. Dante acts differently to each person because he sympathizes with Francesca so he treats her with somewhat respect, but when he see Ugolino he does not feel any sympathy for him because of what he did when he was on earth. Dante meets Francesca in Canto 5, which contains the Carnal, their punishment is to never feel hope. This is one of the most touching cantos in the book; it tells a story of how Francesca fell in love with another man and was killed because of it. I believe that Dante did not believe that the lustful sinners were that bad, because people do not have control over whom they fall in love with. However, it is obvious that Dante did feel that
In each canto they both punished according to their sins. The sinners that were in the Carnal basically had no hope. After Ugolino told his story Dante's reply was, "For you Ugolino falls censure for having betrayed your castles, you for your part should not have put your sons to such torture" (33. However, when he heard Ugolino's story he did not feel any remorse or pity for him, he was actually angry with him, and basically told him that it was entirely his fault that his children died. Even though the two cantos were extremely different they did possess some similarities. One obvious difference is the way that they were punished. 2Another similarity between the two cantos is that Franceasa and Ugolino both tell Dante the story of why they are put in the part of hell to begin with, I feel that they tell Dante this for one of two reasons to either have him feel sorry for them, or to tell other people the their side of the story to clear their name on earth. Dante meets Ugolino in canto 33, treacherous to country, one of the worst parts of hell. I feel that when Dante meets Ugolino it is one of the most graphic and dramatic cantos in this book. When Dante says this to Ugolino he is basically saying I do not feel sorry for you at all, it was because of you that your sons had to starve to death. Ruggieri was once Ugolino alley but then turned against him and killed him and his children by starvation. Dante does not feel any remorse for these sinners because he feels that this is one of the worst sins of all.
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