January 23

Dante

Inferno

Focusing on V-XI

NOTE: Read one Canto per day, aloud.

1. How does Minos symbolize hell?
2. Explicate each of the sins and punishments of incontinence: lust, gluttony, prodigality/miserliness, wrath, sloth
3. What is at the core of the weight shared by the misers and prodigals?
4. What is the common problem/issue shared by the wrathful and slothful?
5. Why are these pairs (m/p & w/s) adjacent to one another in the fourth circle?
6. Are we to pity sinners?
7. Why is violence worse than incontinence?