Dante describes God as merciful and caring but also shows that justice needs to be done and is more important. Virgil chastises Dante for having such reactions and tells him that God’s justice is perfect. Dante is seen praising God’s justice in hell “O Highest Wisdom, how you demonstrate your art in Heaven, on earth, and here in hell!” but, also fears his punishments as shown in Cantos 14 where he sees its dreadful operation. This is the punishment for not being cautious of the body in life. For the people who commit the sin of suicide, justice is served by planting them in one spot forever. Pier della Vigna tells him, “The moment that the violent soul departs the body it has torn itself away from…Our bodies shall hang forevermore, each one on a thorn of its own alien shade.” (p. Dante learns that people who committed suicide are punished by being stuck in one place forever as a tree. Dante and Virgil meet him in the seventh circle of hell where violence is brought upon self. An example of this is Pier della Vigna, who committed suicide after being unjustly imprisoned for something he did not do. In the article by Angus Fletcher, he states that “Despair is a death, absolute in its unforgiving blockage of hope.” This is explaining that hell is the ultimate place where a sinner gets his or her justice in the form of a punishment, and that they will forever be damned and be in despair.ĭante also talks about contrapasso, which means that every crime must be paid with a penalty. The more severe a sin was committed, the more the soul of the sinner moves farther away from God and closer to Satan.
This is attributing to the creation of hell and God’s justice, and it is how it shapes the nine circles of hell and their punishments.
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