The Bond of Communion: An Analysis of Community Bonds in Dante Alighieri's InfernoHuman beings are strange creatures, possessing abilities that no other species living thing possesses. These skills are Intelligence, Reason and Free Will. These attributes allow humans to enhance and destroy whatever they deem necessary for them. One of the most precious things for a human being is community bonding. This bond comes in many shapes and forms and is ultimately a form of love and is usually a connection that we share with others and with God. Community bonding functions as a relationship where it is expected that the people involved comply with the specified instructions. This bond is a weak love, easily influenced and very likely to be corrupted and destroyed. This is due to man's inability to hate himself and take responsibility for his actions. Instead man decides to blame others for his wrongs and this leads man to hate his community. In his work, The Inferno, Dante Alighieri uses the placement of sinners in Hell to establish the idea of ​​moral depravity as a result of the breaking of community bonds. At the beginning of the epic, Dante introduces the Lussuriosi. The placement of the Lustful in Hell demonstrates the impact that Lust has on the breakdown of community bonds, community, and resulting moral depravity. The Lustful are in the second circle of Hell and their punishment, through the Contrapasso, reveals the consequences of the breaking of community bonds linked to trust and love. Beginning his journey in Hell, “[Dante] came to the place stripped of all light/ roaring in naked darkness like seas/ ravaged by the war of the winds.” (5.28-29) Immediately Dante establishes the setting of the……half of the paper……results but continues to make them. An example of a thief is Vanni Fucci. – “I am Vanni Fucci, the beast…/ I am so humiliated because it was I/ who stole the treasure of the Sacristy, / for which others were once blamed.” (24.124-139) Vanni Fucci was also known as a violent man but Dante places him in the eighth circle because theft is a more serious sin., the placement of the Wicked towards their masters, circle nine, in Hell demonstrates how the man's selfishness, abolishes community bonds and leads to moral depravity. It also shows the punishments they must endure as a consequence of breaking the most sacred of bonds: that of the master. Betrayal is a crime that Dante experienced first hand, it was Pope Boniface VIII who exiled Dante, and he remains angry. Works cited: Alighieri, Dante. Hell. Trans. Giovanni Ciardi. New York: Signet Classics, 1954. Print.