Circle 3

In the third circle of upper hell, the Gluttons reside. When Dante wakes up from his fainting spell, he sees that he is in a new palce. There is "a great storm of putrification,"(44), that was "a mixture of stinking snow and freezing rain," (44). In life, the gluttons eat and eat until they get a warm, satisfactory feeling inside. Their punishment in return for those actions is that they have to live in the cold, ice and not have those warm feelings again. The gluttons eat and drink in excess and that is what makes them satisfied. Their punishment in hellis that they are being eaten by Cerberus, the three-headed dog. He rips them apart while they lie the waste and garbabge.
The Gluttons make lots of garbage and waste while they eat and drink. They are "producers of nothing but garbage and offal," (44). While lying in hell, in the cold and being eaten, they live in the garbage and have to be surrounded by it. The law of contrapasso makes it so that everything they enjoyed in life, they have to suffer the oppodites.

The Gates of Hell

"i am the way into the city of hope.
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 ultimante intellect.

only those elements time cannot wear
were made before me, and beyond time i stand.
abandon all hope ye who enter here."