The Law of Retribution in Inferno describes the relationship between the sins a person commits and its consequences in the after-life. The law states that sinners would suffer a punishment to a degree matching the sin’s nature. So, if someone committed a very horrible sin, then his or her punishment would be very brutal. The phrase, “an eye of an eye,” can be used to describe the law. An example of this phrase is if a person causes the death of another person’s child, then that person’s child would also be put to death. In inferno, there are many unique examples that demonstrate the Law of Retribution.

Dante first approached a ditch and saw the Panderers and the Seducers running constantly from one side to the other in cant XVIII. Panderers are also known as pimps and Seducers are people who used others for their own purpose. They moved woman as merchandise from one buyer to the next. In retribution for the sin, demons whipped them and they ran from one demon’s whips to another’s. Dante meets one sinner from Bologna and admits to Dante that he sold his own sister to a noble. In the next ditch, there were the Flatterers. They were immersed in filth and sewage, like what happened in real life with their false flattery towards other people. …show more content…
They committed a sin of trying to look into the future, which was too ahead for them. Therefore, their necks were twisted so that their tears of pain would fall and forever they will look behind them with blurred vision. One sinner wanted to use unholy powers to see into the future and now he has been condemned to look backwards for all of