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Inferno. Canto #5 Philip Schexnayder 5/4/09. Introduction of New Characters. Minos- is the guardian of the second circle. A person confesses their sins, then he wraps his tail around the person. The number of times he wraps his tail around them the circle they must go. Summary.
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Inferno Canto #5 Philip Schexnayder 5/4/09
Introduction of New Characters • Minos- is the guardian of the second circle. A person confesses their sins, then he wraps his tail around the person. The number of times he wraps his tail around them the circle they must go.
Summary • Dante and Virgil approaches the Second Circle of Hell. • They encounter the monster Minos standing in front of a endless line of sinners. • Sinners are confessing their sins, then Minos wraps his tail around the person. The number of times the tail wraps around the person is the circle they must go.
Continue • Minos knows Dante is a living soul. Virgil persuades Minos to let them through. • The second circle is lust. • Those who committed sins of the flesh. • Hard rain falls with souls swirling in the wind. • Dante ask Virgil to identify some of the souls.
Continue • Virgil shows Helen and Cleopatra. • They were damned by love • Dante calls out to the souls • One woman came out named Francesca • She had an affair with Paolo da Rimini. • The brother of her husband. • One day they were reading about the love of Lancelot and Guinevere.
Continue • When they came to a romantic scene, they would kiss. • Her Husband quickly found out. • He had both of them killed. • Paolo and Francesca are doomed to spend eternity in the Second Circle of Hell together forever.