Virgil and Dante enter the fourth circle to find a war against the hoarders and the wasters. Each “side” consists of each soul starining madly to push a boulder-like weight. The two “teams” crash the boulders together then separate, pushing the two weights farther apart then start over again. Virgil and Dante then move on as Virgil explains to Dante the point of dame fortune in the divine Scheme. Past midnight of Black Friday, they come across the Marsh of Styx which is the fifth circle, the last of the upper hell. They then see souls attacking each other in the slimy spring. These sinners are the wrathful. Virgil points out the bubbles in the spring and inform Dante that they are from the souls of the sullen who are entombed under the mud for all eternity chanting a hymn.
Circle: four and five
Sin: Hoarders and Wasters, Wrathful and Sullen
Punishment: For the hoarders and wasters, the punishment is to push a great boulder-like weight and clash it into the other. They then push them apart again and restart. Punishment for the wrathful is to be stuck in the Marsh of Styx and attck eachother. Punishment for the sullen is to be sunk under the nasty marsh chanting a hymn for all eternity.
Retribution: The symbolismof the hoarders' and wasters' punishment is, in life, they did not regulate their expenses; "they destroyed the light of God within themselves by thinking of nothing but money. Thus in death, their souls are encumbered by dead weights and one excess serves to punish the other. Their souls moreover, have become so dimmed and awry in thier friutlss rages that there is no hope of recognizing any among them."
For the wrathful, their punishment fits them because in life they were wrathful, so in death they attck each other in eternal rage/wrath.
The sullens' punishment is fit because in life they refused to welcome sunlight and in death they are burried forever below the stinking waters of the Styx.
Quote: "Hoardering and squandering wasted all their light and brought them screaming to this brawl of wraiths. You need no words of mine to grasp their plight" (lines 58-60)
Question: What does the boulder symbolize in the punishment for the hoarders and wasters?
6 comments:
-Katie McCluskey
Answer: I think that the boulder symbolizes the weight that they wasted/hoarded before they came to hell and having to carry it shows what they either hoarded or wasted.
Maurell James
The bolders represnts the substance and the materialist things in which they either wasted or hoarded. On earth they were opposites, and thus in hell they clash symbolocally equalling out their sins.
The boulder that the sinners must carry represents the things that they wasted and hoarded in their life.
^ Mackenna Crosby
(The boulder that the sinners must carry represents the things that they wasted and hoarded in their life.)
Alison Graham
I believe that the boulder
symbolizes the weight of the items that the sinner had wasted or hoarded before, but while being on earth they were considered opposite making them clash at eachother in hell.
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