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What is contrapasso?

What is contrapasso? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The concept that the punishment of an individual's soul in Hell corresponds to the sin that person committed on earth.
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These sinners prevented the flow of goods by hoarding or squandering, and their just contrapasso is to parody the complete circle which they never fostered in life.
Slightly less subtle, is the contrapasso in the tenth and final pit of circle eight for the falsifiers, whose corrupting influence on metals, money, identity, and truth is reflected in their diseased bodies and minds.
The contrapasso is traditionally said to function either by analogy or by contrast or by a combination of the two.
Adding to the contrapasso, Dante learns that the souls of the suicides will not be re-united with their bodies at the Last Judgment.
Contrapasso, a work for four dancers, will be performed on alternative and electronic music.
The contrapasso for the thieves, is arguably the most conceptually sophisticated of the poem, as their dramatic transformations between human and reptilian forms suggest that one's hold on one's identity is tenuous.

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