The Perfection of God's Justice - Of the many literary techniques Dante utilizes in Inferno, he prefers one over any other: the method of creating an imaginative correspondence between a soul's sin on Earth and the punishment he or she receives in Hell. The Sullen choke on mud, the Wrathful attack one another, the Gluttonous are forced to eat excrement, and so on. This simple idea provides many of Inferno's moments of spectacular imagery and symbolic power, but also serves to illuminate one of Dante's major themes: the perfection of God's justice. The inscription over the gates of Hell in Canto III explicitly states that God was moved to create Hell by "JUSTICE" (III.7). Hell exists to punish sin, and the suitability of Hell's specific puni
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