John Milton and Dante where are two of the greatest poets in history who wrote great works describing what they imagined the divine world to look like. Milton’s “Paradise Lost” and Dante’s “Divine Comedy” both describe a rendition of heaven, hell, and many other divine things that, while similar, are extremely different from each other. Milton and Dante’s depictions of the divine world vary greatly due to the time period they lived in, their political believes, and their religious tendencies. The physical world is a key description in both works but they each play a very different role in their respective description. Dante’s work clearly displayed a belief that the quality of ones soul was the most important thing and if one wanted to go to …show more content…
This is shown in when Beatrice says, “My, friend, who has not been the friend of fortune, is hindered in his path along that lonely hillside, he has been turned aside by terror. From all that I hear of him in Heaven, he is, I fear, already so astray, that I have come to help him much to late,” (Dante, p. 65). In this passage Beatrice compares Dante’s life to a path and, from what she is hearing in heaven is that he has strayed from this path, which means he is not living a virtuous life. Beatrice asks Virgil to guide Dante because she wants him to get back on the right path, or live a virtuous life, while he is still alive on earth so that he can get into heaven. Milton’s “Paradise Lost” paints a much more vivid and detailed image of earth and what goes on there. Since Milton’s work is based off of the Genesis stories Earth is depicted as a “Paradise” (p, 108), but earth also has a very distinctive purpose as a battling ground between God and Satan. Since Satan knows that the strength of the fallen angels is no match for God’s he come up with an alternative option, “Seduce them to our party that their God may prove their Foe and with repenting hand abolish his own work,” (Milton, p.54). This marks the first point