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Retributive Justice In The Inferno

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The punishment fits the crime. That statement conforms to the ideas of a system know as retributive justice. Retributive justice is rooted in proportionality. This means that a punishment should be to the same degree of ones sin. This system appeals to me personally because it avoids giving people the chance to seak revenge. Humanity has been basing punishments on this system for thousands of years. A very well known biblical quote that encorporated this idea is, "an eye for an eye." There are many examples of what Dante thought was retributive justice in The Inferno, but do these punishment fit the crime?
The vestiblue is the area outside of limbo and is designated for the indiferent. They lived their lives without making concious moral desicions. …show more content…

In their lives they were blinded by inpure desires. They are punished by being blown about violently in a lightless storm. At their side was their partner. The winds and darkness represent their lack of control and inability to live a moraly good life. I belive that their punishment is very much like thier sins.
The final circle is where Juedecca is located. Judeca is the final and most sever punishment. Traitors are sent to forever suffer in a pit of ice. Juduce brutus and cosituc recive the worst of all the punishments offered by Satan. They are chewed by Satans three faced head for all eternity. I dont think the punishments that the traitors recieved correlated to their sins. I'm not sure how Dante veiwed traitors but I beleive his views and mine differ, thus resulting in a punishment I dont fully understand. Contrapasso is a latin term that transelates to, "suffer the opposite." There were many opposites in his Inferno. For example Dante gave Satan the opposite charecteristices of the Trinity. Suffering the opposite is the same as reciving a punishment that fits ones crime. It is clear to me that dantes version of a spiritual justice system is filled with his own punishing ideals. I would have to say that through dantes eyes these punishment were

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