Canto 7

Divine Comedy

Meghan O’Donnell

“Clerks those were who no hairy coveringHave on the head, and Popes and Cardinals,In whom doth Avarice practise its excess."

Avaricious (Greedy)

Prodigal (wasters)Wrathful

Sullen

Hoarders&

Wastrels

Fortu

ne

Plutus

Charybdis

Styx

Identification:

Symbolism

Plutus

The Power of Reason

The Circle and FortuneThe sinners and their punishment

Sinners and Their Punishment

Avaricious

Prodigal

“Why keepest?”

“Why squanderest thou?”

Sinners and Their Punishment

Avaricious

Prodigal

THE BIG SO WHAT!

DON’T HOARD OR WASTE

Reason can save

Don’t cheat the system

Second Chances

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutushttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charybdishttp://www.pantheon.org/articles/s/styx_river.

htmlhttp://www.google.com/imghp?ie=UTF-8&hl=

en&tab=wi (Canto Seven Circle Four, river of Styx, Charybdis, Plutus)

http://www.anselm.edu/homepage/dbanach/dante/chap7.html

http://www.everypoet.com/archive/poetry/dante/dante_i_07.htm

Sources:

GAME!