Examples Of Pride In Dante's Inferno

Pride, Envy, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Greed, and Sloth, are the seven deadly sins used by Chaucer in his tales. Pride is the belief in oneself being, of acting better than someone else. Therefore Pride is used in many ways, in Dante’s inferno he uses Pride in Canto 1 line 4. As he states, “Ah me how hard a thing it is to say”. He is talking about how difficult it is to speak of his experience in hell, in addition he is taking pride in telling the story. It is not so much that it is a bad thing in this line but he taking pride in telling his story since his experience was something that many do not tell. As a sin it is considered a classical sin in which one has love for oneself and hatred for others, thinking that they are better. Having pride for oneself over someone else is sinful but in this case Dante is referring to only himself and no one else.

Envy is the desire of having other traits that you don’t have. For instance in canto 7, The god of the under Pluto’s is envy of wealth makes him the guard of the 4th circle due to all the gold silver and diamonds in the underground. He becomes Envy of all the riches in the underworld. This sin is used due to the hoarders in circle 4, in which those who are envy of riches are punished by carrying heavy weights around.

Gluttony, is the sin in which someone over consumes food or drink and for instance eats more than is needed, like not giving food to the needy and eating it all for yourself.

In the third circle Dante is found in a cold mucky place where cerberus the hellhound takes care of this circle. Cerberus is a glutton just like the sinners themselves in this circle, he eats the sinners to his content in which he keeps eating and eating. Gluttony makes the third circle into a sort of pig pin, where every soul is rolling around in muck, and just like how a pig is that eats with incompetence of stopping. The souls are, later on devoured only to leave cerberus with a big belly full of

souls.
Lust, is the feeling of desire in having something, something that you necessarily don't need. Such as money power food and or fame. In canto 5 Lust is described as a desire, in which dante is talking to two souls, only to wish upon knowing why they have been lead them to in the 2nd circle. “Master who are those people, whom the black air so castigates?” lines 50-51. This is where Francesca one of the two souls tells Dante that her death was lead through the desire to love, and only there does she complain that it was due to love , and not herself reasoning that lead her to both her and her partners death. Lust is to punish those souls that have desire for something that they do not need, and so in the 2nd circle, the souls are turned in this endless storm that makes them weary of their sins.
Anger, is provoked through multiple forms such as rage, impatience, revenge, and self destructive behavior. In canto 8 the boatman, Phlegyas, is angered because he was hoping to get Dante into his swamp of the wrathful. He was told that Dante was not to be thrown into the swamp but taken across, so that he may be taken down to the lower parts of hell. “Phlegyas,Phlegyas, thou criest out in vain for this once,” said my lord; “thou shalt not have longer than in the passing of the slough.” lines 19-21. In this section of hell, the 5th circle, Phlegyas, the boatman is the guardian of the fifth circle and of the wrathful. In the swamp float the wrathful, in which they are tossed in due to their sins being in connection with anger.
Greed is the sin in which the wasters and hoarders are punished through carrying large objects. It is guarded by Plutos, the guard of circle 4, Pluto’s is known as the pagan god of wealth. The souls that have kept riches to themselves are punished here by lifting and moving heavy weights. “They clashed together, and then at that point each one turned back word, rolling retrograde, crying, Why keepest, and, Why squanderest thou?” lines 28-30 . Just like Pluto’s himself the sinners hoarded their riches and kept them for themselves, therefore they are punished by holding on to a heavy rock and carrying it to wherever they go.
Sloth, The last of the seven sins is the act of laziness and is used in canto 6, circle 3as all the souls are laying around only to be picked up by Cerberus. As the bodies of the putrid are being eaten, those that are waiting, are like pigs waiting for their punishment to come into the jaws of Cerberus. “ You citizens were wont call me Ciacco; for the pernicious sin of gluttony I, as thou seest, am battered by this rain.” lines 52-54 . It is due to this, that it states that the souls are just lying around in the rain and mud making them Sloth. As the soul recalls saying that he is, battered up, this may mean that it stays in one place, only to wait for the punishment that he is to deserve.