Dante, at least in circles of hell, uses these sins as part--but only part--of his organizational strategy. While lust and gluttony were generally considered the least serious of the seven sins and pride almost always the worst , the order of these two was not consistent: some writers thought lust was worse than gluttony and others thought gluttony worse than lust.
The two were often viewed as closely related to one another, based on the biblical precedent of Eve "eating" the forbidden fruit and then successfully "tempting" Adam to do so Genesis Based on the less than obvious contrapasso of the gluttons and the content mostly political of Inferno 6, Dante appears to view gluttony as more complex than the usual understanding of the sin as excessive eating and drinking.
In the Aeneid Virgil describes Cerberus as loud, huge, and terrifying with snakes rising from his neck ; to get by Cerberus, the Sibyl Aeneas' guide feeds him a spiked honey-cake that makes him immediately fall asleep Aen. Look at Dante's related but very different version of Cerberus in Inferno 6. How has Dante transformed him to fit the role of guardian in the circle of gluttony?
How does Cerberus himself shed light on Dante's conception of the sin? Verses , describing the actual experience of a dog intent on his meal, exemplify Dante's attention to the real world in his depiction of the afterlife. Perhaps the punishment of the gluttonous is what it is, in order to demonstrate how the other half suffered while they lived a life of excess.
Great Works of Literature I Fall Skip to content. About d. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. Proudly powered by WordPress. Continuing on to Greed , Lucifer waylaid Dante briefly in the Hall of Gluttons which was an area where the high status gluttons are eternally eaten by demons and where "Up" could mean any direction, hindering Dante's progress.
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