The Divine Comedy and the Human Experience :: Divine Comedy Inferno Essays

The Divine Comedy The Depth of Human flummox       Religious, structured, and orderly. Although this playscript is religious by means of and through, it is also very earthly. You seem to never leave the earth. In fact, there seems to be no difference betwixt earth and the heavenly sphere. It is a solid world, no distinction betwixt mind and matter, everything is touchable. The physical expresses the spiritual, the spirit of God is physical and pervades the physical universe--its entirely one place. There is no heaven and hell, it is just all here. For this reason, this book answers all of those questions you had as a kid in sunlight train and nobody could give you a satisfying answer, for instance, where do people go when they die, what does hell look like, what does heaven look like, what is purgatory, and how does one get from purgatory to heaven. Sunday school teachers should just read Dante to the kids--it is the end-all encyclopedia of heaven, hell, and purgatory. The symbolism of the beginning is nice, that he is in a forest being chased by discordant animals. I can imagine that each of the animals represents some kind of immorality and that the part in the woods symbolizes the sinful, confused life full of temptations. It was provoke that Virgil was his take out. I was expecting a more religious character, for instance, Moses--but it later turned divulge that he was sitting in hell himself That was an eye-opener. It makes you realize the difference amongst the old and the new testaments. Even Noah was in hell.() But at least(prenominal) they werent very deep in hell. All hope abandon ye who immortalise here. I liked how Hell is an interactive place for Dante. He isnt afraid(predicate) to touch the merchandise. Then seizing on his hinder scalp, I cried make up thee, or not a hair shall tarry here. He is human, he takes part and overreacts. And he keeps fainting. Its not a Universal Studios ride through hell, b ut you can actually grab ahold of the props, talk to old friends and acquaintences, and the guide will patiently wait for you when you faint. Another aspect of hell that strike me was that the devil was standing on a frozen lake. This isnt the picture of Larsons removed Side hell scenes, nor is the devil the cool, rebellious bad boy of Miltons nirvana Lost.