The After Life
Jaylene Taylor
Eventually,
everyone dies, so at some point, most people wonder where they would go Hell or
Heaven. Are we really chosen to go up or down by the way we choose to live or
the decisions we make? Is there really a need to make a choice of who goes
where? Heaven as we may know is a dream of imagination in which our love ones
dwell on telling us not to go into the light. Hell as we know is a fire pit of
lost souls.
In the poem
"Dante’s Inferno" & the movie "What Dreams May Come"
they both have guides. In the Inferno Dante has Virgil, a poet from the Roman times and
Chris has Albert who is really his son Ian.
Ian chooses to be Albert because in in life, Albert was the only person
that Chris listened to.
Like the
Inferno, What Dreams May Come portrays hell as a place not of fire but of
solitude was all you can think about is what you did to get there. Think of the levels of that where portrayed in
Dante’s Inferno. Chris wife was sent to
hell because she committed suicide, as stated in the inferno she should be
placed in circle 7.But in where dreams may come she was placed in a black in
white setting of her home in things she loved. Neither has a fire for those who
committed suicide.
Hell in back
we shall go. Another similarity is that the main characters in both went to
hell in back. Dante was basically already there trying to get his life
together, but Chris went to save his beloved wife Annie who killed herself
because she's lost everyone she ever loved. Then people don’t both that no one
has ever came back from the gloomy place of hell.
In
conclusion there are many ways this poem and movie are alike to each other.
There are different views of hell & heaven, but it’s up to you to choose
which you shall depart to in the afterlife. Up or Down your choice!
