When we think of God as a synonym for love, it is then easy to understand why Dante chose fraud as the worst of sins; the act of fraud then serves as an antonym of love. The most relevant 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 lured by greed and induced him to betray 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 all living beings, it then transforms Satan's disloyalty into a marker denoting the most precarious side of human nature. In terms of seriousness, after the actions of Lucifer, Judas Iscariot is the character best known for having betrayed a member of the divine trinity, in this case his master Jesus Christ. Then the reasoning behind Iscariot's incorporation into the narrative becomes clear as well as why he was situated as a central character. By choosing Dante to place Judas directly into Lucifer's frontal mouth and having Lucifer chew on his skull for eternity, we see the dire consequences of God's betrayal. Dante's decision to include Brutus and Cassius in the narrative is less apparent, but can be traced