1. Fourfold Analysis - Circle Nine in Dante's Inferno
It is often said that fratricide is the worst crime imaginable as "Each is aggressor and victim as they merge into a monstrous, bipartite unity".2 From this quote we can get a closer look at truly awful nature of the crime these two brothers committed, and why Dante is so unforgiving with them. ... As a famished man chews crusts-so the once sinner sank his teeth into the other's nape at the base of the skull, gnawing his loathsome dinner. When asked by Dante the pilgrim why he so viciously chews at his neighbor's head, Ugolino answers that in life they plotted together, b...
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