Poetic Justice

Poetic justice is defined as the rewarding of virtue and the punishment of vice, often in an especially appropriate or ironic manner. Clearly, Dante’s Inferno consists of this ideology. Bad people are punished a certain way according to the atrocity they performed. Meanwhile, good people stay in heaven.  I would like to use the seventh circle as an example of poetic justice. In this circle lay all those who committed suicide or where violent towards their own possessions. This people where given a body, a soul, a chance to be alive; but they misused it. Their punishment is pretty adequate for their situation. They have to live as trees for the rest of eternity. They betrayed their own body, so now it has been taken away from them.