Fraud vs. Violence

Using evidence from Circles 7 and 8 to support your assertions, discuss why Dante believes fraud to be a more evil sin than violence. Consider in your argument the ideas of alienation and union that we have discussed in our study of this work. Do you agree with Dante's overall assessment?


When reading Inferno, one begins to establish the impression that Dante strongly believes that the sin of fraud is much greater then that of violence. Sinners of violence are held in the earlier circle of hell, such as circle 8, as to where sinners of fraud are located          in lower hell, like circle 8 for example. The higher  
the number of the circle is, the lower in hell they are         
held, and the greater the punishment is, though they 
are all symbolic to that particular crime of the   
circle.


In circle 7, murderers, those who have committed suicide, an those who are violent against God, are held in the three different rounds. The punishments vary from being made inanimate objects such as trees or being submerged in boiling blood.