Within Dante's depiction of Hell there exists a hierarchy of punishment, featuring the incrementally more severe punishments located respectively closer to the bottommost center of Hell. This hierarchy is arranged, and locations assigned, by the extremity and magnitude from the sin committed. Dante describes a hell based around a retributive justice, exactly where the punishment isn't only suitable for the crime, but additionally will be the crime.
Think about a bully who, via intimidation and abuse, pushes away possible friends. According to Dante's concept of contrapasso, merely becoming the bully will be the punishment for the crime. He is really a lonely, friendless person. This is how Dante envisions eternal chastisement.
Probably the most apparent and compelling exhibition of contrapasso in Dante's Inferno is of Dis, or Lucifer. Lucifer the archangel rebelled against God. This event arose from his hubristically excessive pride. Being the most serious of sins, a prideful crime against God finds Dis in the extremely lowest portion of Hell, frozen inside a lake of sewage. The absence from the light of God currently restricts the presence of heat, but Dis' pride motivates him to continually beat his wings in an try to escape his incarceration. This flapping of his wings rushes a cold wind across the lake, making certain his imprisonment for so long as his pride remains. To humble himself would allow the melting from the lake. But hubris rarely reorganizes itself into humility.
This counter-suffering is the contrapasso, the crime and punishment of becoming the criminal. This notion perceives justice serving itself without mediation.
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