1. The Divine Comedy: Dante’s Inferno
All hope abandon, ye who enter here…

2. background
14,000 lines
3 SECTIONS:
Inferno
Purgatory
Paradise

3. background Virgil guides Dante through the 9 circles
The circles are concentric, representing a gradual increase in wickedness
Culminates at the center of the earth, where Satan is held in bondage

4. First Circle Sin: Unbaptized, pagans Punishment:
Limbo & a desire for a better fate which cannot be received

5. Second Circle Sin: Lust Punishment:
Blown about to & fro by a violent storm with no hope of rest

6. Third Circle Sin: Gluttony Punishment:
Forced to lie in vile slush; snow, hail & dirty water; bite each other apart bit by bit

7. Fourth Circle Sin: Greed Punishment:
Crush each other with heavy weights

8. Fifth Circle Sin: Wrath & Sloth Punishment:
In the River Styx the wrathful fight each other on the surface & the slothful lie gurgling beneath the water

9. Sixth Circle Sin: Heretics Punishment:
Constantly roasted in flaming tombs

10. Seventh Circle Sin: Violent criminals; includes suicide Punishment:
Many different punishments (i.e. gnarly bush, drown in river of blood, etc)

11. Eighth Circle
Sin:
Flattery, hypocrisy, robbery, fortune-telling, scandal, embezzlement, etc.
Punishment:
Sit in human excrement, sit in boiling pitch, etc.

12. Ninth Circle Sin: Treason, traitors Punishment:
Buried in ice up to neck; tears freeze into veil of ice
Lucifer at center weeping icy tears of blood

14. Today’s assignment
Dante’s Inferno was meant to be a critique of medieval society
Remember that the punishment “fits” the crime…
Today, you will create an INFERNO as it applies to high school life

15. Today’s assignment
What are the most significant “high school sins” in terms of friendships, academic work, etc?
What punishments would you assign to each sin?
Remember to structure your inferno like Dante’s…