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The thieves' punishment joins serpents, incineration, and repeated reconstitution, with Vanni Fucci identified as a church thief whose crime also caused someone else to be blamed.
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Snakes
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Jiang reads the snake punishment as a metaphor for the thief's social effect: slippery hidden injury, lingering venom, obsessive suspicion, and misdirected retaliation.
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Jiang notes a symmetry with Milton: in Paradise Lost the devils end as snakes, reinforcing the serpent as an image of corrupted desire and theft.
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"He said, just request is to be met in silence by the, by the act. We then climbed down the bridge just at the..."
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"with force at one who stood upon our shore, transfixing him just where the neck and shoulders from a knot. No O or I..."
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"Oh, how severe it is, the power of God, that, as its vengeance showers down such blows. My guide then asked that sinner who..."
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"set down so far because I robbed the sacristy of its fair ornament, and someone else was falsely blamed for that. But lest the..."
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"Yeah. And I also feel like while the thieves are like deceiving the others through like stealing, they're also kind of like deceiving themselves...."
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"...the punishment is these guys, these thieves are being bitten by snakes, right? Which kills them. Well, that's a metaphor for what they do..."
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"...fate for satan and the devils is they all turn into snakes okay so so it's almost like symmetry all right uh thank you..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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