ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The first circle is home to the unbaptized and virtuous pagans. It’s not Heaven, but as far as Hell goes, it isn’t too bad: It’s the retirement community of the afterlife.

Detailed explanation-2: -Inferno tells the story of Dante’s journey through a vision of hell ordered into nine circles corresponding to classifications of sin. The first circle is Limbo, the space reserved for those souls who died before baptism and for those who hail from non-Christian cultures.

Detailed explanation-3: -Seventh Circle: this circle houses the violent. Outer ring, housing the violent against people and property, who are immersed in Phlegethon, a river of boiling blood, to a level commensurate with their sins. Middle ring: In this ring are the suicides, who are transformed into gnarled thorny bushes and trees.

Detailed explanation-4: -Inferno tells the story of Dante’s journey through a vision of the Christian hell ordered into nine circles corresponding to classifications of sin; the third circle represents the sin of gluttony, where the souls of the gluttonous are punished in a realm of icy mud.

Detailed explanation-5: -Dante names the eighth circle of Hell ‘Malebolge’, which could roughly be translated as ‘evil-sacks’. This name reflects the structure of the circle, which is made up of ten concentric ditches (’bolge’). Each ditch is lower than the previous one, and all the ditches are linked to each other by a number of bridges.