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    Canto III: The Gate of Hell The Opportunists

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    Celestine V, the cowardly pope who abdicated, is among the opportunists in the first circle of Hell, being punished eternally for his inaction.

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    INFERNO CANTO III

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    Canto-III

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    Celestine V, the cowardly pope who abdicated, is among the opportunists in the first circle of Hell, being punished eternally for his inaction.

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    Canto III: The Gate of Hell The Opportunists

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    Canto III

    The Gate of Hell


    The Opportunists
    I AM THE WAY INTO THE CITY OF WOE.
    I AM THE WAY TO A FORSAKEN PEOPLE.
    I AM THE WAY INTO ETERNAL SORROW.
    SACRED JUSTICE MOVED MY ARCHITECT.
    I WAS RAISED HERE BY DIVINE OMNIPOTENCE,
    PRIMORDIAL LOVE AND ULTIMATE INTELLECT.
    ONLY THOSE ELEMENTS TIME CANNOT WEAR
    WERE MADE BEFORE ME, AND BEYOND TIME I
    STAND.
    ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE.
    Importance of Inscription

    • Portrays Hell as a city,


    which defines much
    of the geography of
    the poem.

    • Bound and contained


    by walls and contains
    a vast population of
    souls.
    Importance of Inscription
    • Portrays hell as a place of eternal woes,
    pains, and loss, situating it as the center of
    God’s strict punishment of sinners, a place
    which there is supposed to be no escape.

    • The tradition of St. Augustine’s the city of


    God, written 5th century A.D.
    Augustine's City:
    • In the city of God, the forces of charity,
    kindness, and love hold people together.
    • In the city of man, everyone is out for
    themselves and prey on one another .
    • In the Inferno’s city of hell, the
    Opportunists live there because they are
    only out for themselves- relating to
    Augustine’s theory.
    • God created hell for the sake of justice-
    desire to see sin punished and virtue
    rewarded – consequences of sin.
    Opportunists
    • Neither good nor evil
    • Only out for themselves
    – “These are the nearly soulless whose lives
    concluded neither blame nor praise,” (32-33).

    • Outcasts who took no sides in the Rebellion


    of Angels
    – “Mixed with that despicable corps of angels who
    were neither for God nor Satan, but only for
    themselves,” (34-36).
    Punishment
    “I saw a banner there upon the mist.
    Circling and circling, it seemed to scorn all pause…

    These wretches never born and never dead


    ran naked in a swarm of wasps and hornets
    that goaded them the more the more they fled

    And made their faces stream with blood gouts


    of pus and tears that dribbled to their feet
    to be swallowed there by loathsome worms and
    maggots” (49-66).
    Symbolic Retribution
    • Meaningless of banner parallels their time on earth-
    pursued own interests now pursue a meaningless
    banner.

    • Sin was a darkness- they are in darkness.

    • Guilty conscience pursued them in life- hornets &


    wasps pursue them in death and force them to take
    action.

    • Actions morally filthy - run in filth.


    Celestine V
    “I recognized the shadow of that soul
    Who, in his cowardice, made the Great Denial“ (56-57)

    • Reference to Celestine V
    • Priest Benedetto told him his soul in danger, that no
    man could live without being in danger
    • He withdrew from worldly affairs and renounced
    papacy
    • Benedetto became Pope- Dante’s biggeswt enemy

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