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Dante's 'Inferno' / Role of Women

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A 2 page paper looking at the fact that women's sins as depicted by Dante tend to be overwhelmingly of a sexual nature as compared to men's. The paper concludes that this may be because women in Dante's time were considered to have a limited sphere of influence, and their role was seen as primarily procreative. Bibliography lists 1 source.

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to do with sexuality and most of the mens sins having something to do anger, avarice, or deception. An uppermost ring is epitomized by two illicit lovers, Francesca da Rimini and her brother-in-law Paolo, who are being punished for an inability to control their passions. The penalty for their crime is to be buffeted forever by "a black wind" as in life the couple was buffeted by their emotions. This is one of the few examples in Dante of a man being punished for a physical crime, and it is significant that Paolo is punished in concert with his lover. Several rings down, he meets Thais, a whore, who is condemned to wallow in a lake of excrement for the way she besmirched true love with false. Below that, he meets Manto, daughter of the mythical Greek seer Teiresias; Manto was presumably a fortune-teller as well, and for this reason is condemned to live in Hell with her head on backwards, since she "so wanted to see ahead" (Inferno, Canto XX, line 38); she is one of the very few sinners whose crimes were not sexual. Several rings later, he encounters another mythical person, Myrrha, the mother of Adonis, who disguised herself in order to have sex with her own father; she, who in life was so calculated in her incestuous sin, is condemned to run naked and "berserk in just the way a hog does when its let loose from its sty" (Inferno, XXX, 26-27). By far most of the inhabitants of Hell whom Dante identifies by name are male; and those few women he identifies tend to have sinned in some way connected with the dispensation of their bodies. This says much more about the way women were viewed in Dantes time than it does about the ...

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