Circle 9 (SATAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Round 1

The Treacherous To Kin

" O most miscreant rabble, you who keep the stations of that place whose name is pain, better you had been born as goats or sheep!"


The modern English translation to this quote would be" You poor schmucks, you should have never been born human, you would have been better off a goat or a sheep," which is entirely true, these poor guys are in the 9th circle of hell do you know how painful their punishments must be? However Dante, that is sort of a mean thing to say plus you can't really feel sorry for them sense it was their own doing that got them there in the first place. However I just can't see this sin as being the worse sin in the book, I think It would have been more fitting to have more of a final crime there like killers or something, not betrayers.


Round 2 & 3

Treacherous to Country, Treacherous to Guest and Host

"Father it would give us less pain if you ate us: it was you who put upon us this sorry flesh; now strip it off again."

Another whoa moment, this was the only time i actually felt sorry for someone in the book. One poor soul had to watch his sons starve to death while they stayed locked in a tower for days. One of his sons replied the above when he started crying and chewing his fingers. I think that almost made me tear up. Can you imagine the grief in that. This quote really depressed me. I kept thinking how does a father respond to that quote, how horrible is it to hear your child say something like that. So sad. So sad.



Round 4


SATAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



"If he was as beautiful as he once as now he is hideous, and still turned on his Maker, well may he be the source of very woe!"

I'm just not sure how being ugly makes him the source of all woe. I keep reading it but I just don't get it. What it sounds like he's sort of saying that if he fave up God to be this ugly then he must be he source of human suffering. But that doesn't make sense to me.Anyways just a quick note, I was really excited to get to the part about Satan. I really wanted to hear about his punishment. I cant believe the book is over now....