Last week, students did a presentation on Dante's inferno. They did Canto 9 through Canto 13. Canto 9 was Heresy. The girl who presented did a great job in relating the sin and the punishment. Heresy is a sin committed by people who thinks their souls are linked to their bodies. The sinners were burnt alive in their life-time and in the hell, they have to sit forever in burning tombs. The visual she presented was a concentration camp. She said the world outside the concentration camp is bad but in the concentration camp is even worse. Since Canto 9 takes place in the border of Wall of Dis, she illustrated inside of Wall of Dis as a concentration camp.
Canto 13 was done by Allison S. The sin was suicide. Although she didn't agree with the punishment, she did a great job explaining the sin and the punishment. People who committed suicides are turned into trees and they get tortured by harpies, a bird-like monster. People who committed suicides are turned into trees because they treated themselves badly by killing themselves. The sinners lose control of their bodies which they have abandoned in their life time. Allison's visual is also very well made. She made a tree with a face in it and she placed garbage and cut scars to represent how the sinners are being treated horribly.
(an image of Canto 13)
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