When you think of God as synonymous with love, it is then easy to understand why Dante chose fraud as the worst of sins; the act of fraud therefore serves as an antonym for love. The most prominent example of fraud can be found in Lucifer's betrayal of God. He was Lucifer's master, and even though Dis was the most beautiful angel in heaven, greed led him to betray his own master. The fact that an angel, a celestial creature, was attracted by greed to the point of betraying his omnipresent master, indicates that of all sins, fraud is the gravest of all. Since Lucifer's betrayal was aimed directly at the creator of every living being, it transforms Satan's disloyalty into a marker denoting the more precarious side of human nature. In terms of gravity, after the actions of Lucifer, Judas Iscariot is the figure best known for betraying a member of the divine trinity, in this case his master Jesus Christ. Thus, the reasoning behind Iscariot's incorporation into the narrative becomes clear, as does why he was placed as a central figure. By choosing Dante to place Judas directly in Lucifer's frontal mouth and having Lucifer chew on his skull for eternity, we see the terrible consequences of God's betrayal. Dante's decision to include Brutus and Cassius in the narrative is less obvious, but can be traced