Dante's Inferno: AP Lit

First Circle / Limbo

unbaptized, virtuous pagans

struck with grief from lack of God’s presence

Second Circle

lustful

blown around by endless wind

Third Circle

Gluttons

bombarded with rain, hail, and black snow

Fourth Circle

Hoarders and Spenders

Fifth Circle

Wrathful and Sullen

wrathful are enraged in combat on the surface of the river whilst the sullen sulk to the bottom of the river

Sixth Circle (City of Dis)

heretics

locked in burning coffins 

Seventh Circle (Plain of Fire)

Violent

forced to swim in boiling blood

Pimps/Seducers

whipped by demons whilst marching: 8th

Flatteres

immersed in human feces: 8th

Diviners

contorted with heads facing backwards: 8th

Hypocrites

forced to wear cloaks of lead: 8th

Thieves

chased and bitten by reptiles: 8th

Corrupt Politicians

immersed in pool of boiling pitch: 8th

Schismatics

split from chin to groin by sword: 8th

False Counselors

wrapped in individual columns of flame: 8th

Falsifiers

compelled to scratch their itching skin: 8th

Betrayers of Kin

lodged headfirst into blocks of ice: 9th

Betrayers of Country

forced to eat one another: 9th

Brutus, Judas, and Cassius

chewed endlessly in Lucifer’s jaws: 9th

Betrayers of Guests

lodged head up in blocks of ice with frost freezing their eyes so that they cannot cry: 9th

Betrayers of Benefactors

contorted and lodged completely within blocks of ice