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What Dreams May Come and Dante's Inferno
Title: What Dreams May Come and Dante's Inferno
Category: Literature
Details: Words: 1528 | Pages: 6.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
What Dreams May Come and Dante's Inferno
Death and what comes after has always been a subject of great interest and uncertainty. Many have tried to depict their own vision of the afterlife, be it heaven or hell, paradise or inferno. Here, I will discuss the similarities and differences in the hell represented in the movie What Dreams May Come and the Inferno of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.
What Dreams May Come is a movie about two soul mates, Chris (Robin Williams) …showed first 75 words of 1528 total…
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While many of the resemblances of the Inferno and What Dreams May Come seem mostly for cinematic effect alone, it is a testament to Dante's literary talent that his portrait of hell has been so enduring. The Inferno created by Dante indeed puts a face on hell and has influenced almost every look into the subject over the centuries since it was finished in 1321.
By: Mika Mokko
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