murderers go to the seventh circle of hell.
murderers go to the seventh circle of hell.
what circle of hell do murderers go to?
seventh
the harpies in dante's version feed from the leaves of oak trees which entomb suicides. at the time canto xiii (or "the wood of suicides") was written, suicide was considered by the catholic church as at least equivalent to murder, and a contravention of the commandment "thou shalt not kill", and many theologians believed it to be an even deeper sin than murder, as it constituted a rejection of god's gift of life. dante alludes to this by placing suicides in the seventh circle of hell, where the violent are punished, alongside murderers, tyrants, blasphemers, sodomites and usurers.
the wood of the self-murderers: the harpies and the suicides
macbeth finds the three witches in his house that evening and, after drinking a foul potion and engaging in an orgiastic sexual encounter with them, asks the witches of his future. he is told to fear macduff, but no man "of woman born shall kill you". later it is revealed that macduff is not a natural birth, but a caesarean section, which is not "of woman born". he is also shown a vision of fleance being hailed as gang leader. these prophecies enrage macbeth, as does the witches' quick disappearance, and he has the murderers go to macduff's home and brutally kill lady macduff and her son.
macbeth (2006 film)