�We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell�

 Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

            This quote could probably be related to every Cantos in the Inferno. I chose to analyze it only now because I see, in the ninth circle of hell, that these sinners are the ones that trapped themselves in their own hell. In Cantos thirty two Dante enters Caina named after Cain which holds the worst sinners of them all, including Satan. The sinners who in life were treacherous to their kin are buried under ice with just their heads poking out. They denied the love of God when they were alive and now they are denied warmth from the sun and made so that they can never move. �They strained their necks, and when they had raised their heads as if to reply, the tears their eyes had managed to contain up to that time gushed out, and the cold froze them between the lids, sealing them shut again.� (268) Their tears resemble their grief. They now cry because of the sins they once performed and their crying makes them suffer even more. Even the slight comfort that one can obtain from crying is taken from them. 

            In the last Cantos of the story, Cantos thirty four, we see Dis, or Satan. Satan is as deep down in hell as possible. He is entrapped in a block of ice of which he keeps frozen solid. �Under each head two wings rose terribly, their span proportioned to so gross a bird: I never saw such sails upon the sea�it is these that freeze all Cocytus.� (284) Essentially Satan keeps himself where he is in hell. He weeps out of the six eyes he has and constantly flaps his wings to escape. Not only does he keep himself in his hell but he cools the ice that surrounds the whole ninth circle, entrapping all its inhabitants.

            Dante and Virgil reach the end of their journey through the inferno and they begin their travel to Purgatory. �There is no way but by such stairs to rise above such evil�now let all those whose dull minds are still vexed by failure to understand what point it was I had passed through, judge if I was perplexed� (285) This was an excellent way to leave hell at last after their long journey. Virgil is giving Dante his last lesson from Hell. As they leave all behind, Dante is proud to have made it out safely and has learned that he would never have to reach hell if he doesn�t put hell upon himself as all the sinners he met did.