Dante's Inferno: Canto 25
Canto 25 in Dante's Inferno is referring
to the Eigth Circle of hell in the 7th
pocket. In this pocket is where the thieves spend the rest of eternity. It is in this
pocket that the punishment for the thieves is to have snakes which steal the
bodies of the thieves. This punishment is very fitting for the sin.
The punishment for having committed this sin is that the thief must always
be on the look-out for a snake. The reason this punishment is fitting is because
many people think of thieves as snakes. They come and go unnoticed and are
able to take what they please. Now, the thieves in turn must play a
game of who can keep their
body the longest. In the last instance that Dante
presents the reader of a thief being attacked, a snake slithered and sneaked up
on two thieves as they watched another being attacked by another snake. The
snake came up behind the middle one and bit him. As a result the thief was then
parallized and......
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