‘Could you find pleasure only in what was forbidden, and only because it was forbidden? (Confessions Book II, page 1186).’ One of Dante’s rules in the inferno is contrapasso, which states that for every crime there must be a befitting and equal punishment (Dante, Durling and Martinez 70-71). Punishment is always derived from the offense and not from the consequences of the crime itself. ‘Even when they sin against thee, they are also committing impiety against their own souls (Augustine and Outler 42).’This is to say that there are various levels of crime which are all punished differently. The common belief is that a crime is punished depending on the consequences of the crime to the society. ‘It is only logical that hell should be portrayed