Contrapasso is one of the “laws of nature” that is applied in hell. In other words, that every sinner’s crime must have an equal punishment to fit the crime. For example, circle 4, greed, Virgil explains that “All of them were asquint in intellect in the first life, so much that there with measure they no spending made” (canto 7). These sinners valued money more than anything else in this world. For their punishment they are “rolling weights forward [with] main force of chest” (canto 7). The punishment perfectly fits the crime since their whole life they were around money and valued nothing else more than that. It is only right that they push gold for the rest of their lives to show that money isn’t everything. On the other hand, circle