Dante's Inferno And Scrooge For A Christmas Carol

During the time in your life, how many times have you thought about the place Heaven or Hell? Maybe you sit and wonder about how these places may look or how the people in these places might look like. Most individuals will imagine the people in Heaven as beautiful angels and picture Heaven as an overly bright place filled with an excessive amount of sunshine, happiness, and peace. These individuals did not commit any bad acts in their lifetime. People usually imagine the individuals in Hell as scary devils and the setting of Hell looks dark and sketchy. The whole place of Hell rises up in fiery flames as the souls cry out in agony. These individuals committed bad acts in their lifetime to end up in Hell. If you imagine these places to look

Dante Alighieri named the main character in Dante’s Inferno and Ebenezer Scrooge for A Christmas Carol. The similarity between these two characters is they both are in a crisis of their life. As in the book Dante’s Inferno, the story begins by Dante walking through a dark forest. Dante speaks of how he lost his “true path” and does not know where to turn in the next step of his life. Dante spys a bright path ahead of him, but he is stopped by a leopard, a lion, and a she wolf. The beasts lead Dante to Hell, which Dante will end up in Hell if he does not choose the right path. In a Christmas Carol the main character Ebenezer Scrooge also is in a crisis of his life. Ebenezer Scrooge was a greedy, mean, old man. He did not care about anyone but himself and only the money he made for himself. In the story it stated how the public were scared of Scrooge when he came out of his office to go home they all ran away from him. Scrooge learns close to the end of the story he may end up in Hell if he does not change his ways because he saw his tombstone with his name on

One difference between the two pieces of literature is Dante’s Inferno presents the story as in first person point of view and A Christmas Carol presented as third person point of view. As Dante’s Inferno is presented in first person, it gives the reader a better understanding of what Dante goes through during his time in Hell. In Dante’s Inferno you can imagine what Dante sees and at some points how frightened he became seeing the different parts in Hell. In a Christmas Carol, the story is presented in third person. This story tells a tale of a man that is greedy for money and does not care about anyone else but himself. In a Christmas Carol you can imagine the events, but since Ebenezer Scrooge is not telling the tale, it is really not as visual as in Dante’s experience in Hell. Another difference in these two pieces of literature is speaking of the sins many people commited and only speaking of a sin of a single person. In Dante’s Inferno, as Dante and Virgil walk through the levels of Hell they approach many levels of different sins that people committed during their lifetime. For example, Dante and Virgil walk through circles that people are punished for greed, violence and fraud. In A Christmas Carol, the tale only speaks of Ebenezer Scrooge’s sin which he only cares about his money he makes. Dante’s Inferno and A Christmas