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Dante circle 8 canto 21 bolgia 4
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Circle 8 Canto 21, Bolgia 4
The Grafters: The people who used their social positions to gain wealth or advantages for themselves
Setting and Guards
Settings and Guards
- Boiling and sticky tar filled pitches
- Surrounded by Jagged rocks
- Guarded by Demons and their leader Malacoda
- "Here the Grafters are sunk in the boiling pitch and guarded by demons, who tear them to pieces with claws and grappling hooks if they catch them above the surface of the pitch."
Punishment
The Grafters are boiled alive in boiling pitches of tar and if they try to crawl out and escape they're torn to pieces by the demons' claws and grappeling hooks.
Punishment
Symbolic Retribution
- The sticky pitch resembles the grafters "sticky" fingers"
- Them hiding from the demons and being hidden from view also resebles the grafters hiding their shadey dealings
- Then the demons represent the grafters tearing apart everything that they could get their hands on
- "The sticky pitch is symbolic of the sticky fingers of the Grafters."
Sinners and Modern Day Sinners
- Friar Gomita of Gallura-He worked for Nino Visconti, judge of province of Gallura on Sardegna, who was hanged after Visconti discovered that he had taken a bribe in exchange for releasing some prisoners.
- The entire city of Luca as well, Dante believed everyone there was a Grafter except for, Bonturo.
- A modern day example is Nixon and his sketchy methods, like watergate.
Key Details
- The poets must travel on the next bridge, because as Malacoda tells them, the closest bridge fell in an earthquake 1,266 years, one day, and five hours from the present point in time (indicating the Harrowing of Hell on the day that Christ died).
- There was one sinner who got out of the pit and made a deal to the demons, so he was not harmed. He said he'd whislte and draw more sinners for them to torture, but when the demons were distracted he ran and escaped. The demons then fought each other and fell in to a pit left unable to fly out and catch the sinner. This allowed the poets to also sneak away and continue on their passage.
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