Pirates of the Underworld?
So throughout Canto 21, I felt a strange similarity to the Pirates of the Caribbean. His description of the sailors and the acts that they are preforming seems almost saddening. It seems as though they are drudging on which I guess makes sense because they are in the underworld. duh. Anyway, I found a bit of comic relief in the fact that Dante is having to sort of sneak around everyone. I can just imagine like a grown Dante tiptoeing through Hell and getting caught and just being like "whattup, ya know, I'm just here, chillin'" not really though cause he's in Hell but also it would be in Italian, but since I don't know Italian, I digress.
One thing I think I have been having to separate myself from while reading this is my Christian nature, which sounds terrible. I have been looking at all of this through a literary standpoint, but I can't help but wonder where all of this stands biblically. Obviously Dante wouldn't even possibly be in Hell and return to earth to tell this story, but are we so naive to believe that he would outsmart satan himself? I remember reading this in high school and thinking what relevance this had to Christianity and while I don't think this is an entirely biblical trilogy, I do believe some good biblical lessons can be drawn from it and theological standpoints as well.
AnnaKate & Eliza
One thing I think I have been having to separate myself from while reading this is my Christian nature, which sounds terrible. I have been looking at all of this through a literary standpoint, but I can't help but wonder where all of this stands biblically. Obviously Dante wouldn't even possibly be in Hell and return to earth to tell this story, but are we so naive to believe that he would outsmart satan himself? I remember reading this in high school and thinking what relevance this had to Christianity and while I don't think this is an entirely biblical trilogy, I do believe some good biblical lessons can be drawn from it and theological standpoints as well.
AnnaKate & Eliza
First, I love your comparison to the Pirates of the Caribbean! Secondly, I totally get what you mean about separating yourself from your Christian nature. I find myself reading this sometimes and just ripping Dante to shreds in my head about half of the things in the books not being biblical. But we're not meant to read it and believe, however it really does have some great lessons to be learned from it (see my blog post).
ReplyDelete-Madison Flowers
I honestly have not forgotten my Christian Nature at all in reading this. I can kind of see how these things that Dante talks about being in Hell make perfect sense, especially the punishments given to the sinners. And I raise the question that this might be a real vision of God, and that He called Dante to spiritually enter Hell and be taken through it so that he could come back into his body in Earth and tell the story so that believers and non-believers would fear God and bow to Him in reverence.
ReplyDeleteCall me naive, but I enjoy keeping an open mind and letting my imagination flow.
Zane Duke