1. Fourfold Analysis - Circle Nine in Dante's Inferno
These individuals are frozen up to their necks in ice, the cold symbolizing a lack of human love and warmth, which they denied others in life. ... In life, these individuals were twin counts of Mangona, but they killed one another in a fight over their inheritance, so in death they are fittingly denied any warmth or human love, just as they denied it to each other in life. ... Ugolino on the other hand resides in the ninth circle because of his brutal and horrendous betrayal of his own children, denying them even parental love, and being profoundly selfish in dishonoring them through cannibali...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate