... on with his life, always wondering what could have happened. Jay Dougherty compared Prufrock to the character, Guido de Montafeltro, the doomed spirit in Dantes A Divine Comedy. He suggests that Eliot used the headnote from Dante because Guido and Prufrock were both faced with an overwhelming question (Dougherty.) Dougherty ... the attempt to reproduce, or rather to arouse in the readers mind the memory of some Dantesque scene, and thus establish a relationship between the medieval inferno and modern life (What 31). Eliot saw a modern Hell plagued by mental agony, characteristic of the t...

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Dante's Inferno is a classic story and the movie What Dreams May Come is a movie that somewhat depicts the book. Dante's Inferno is one part of a trilogy of Dante's story telling how he was taken to heaven. He had to start in hell with his guide Virgil, after he meets Satan he goes to Mount Purgatory. The second book entitled Purgatorio and then he goes on to heaven in the third book called Paradiso. While you are watching the movie What Dreams May Come you can make many connections to the story. For example when Christopher (Robin Williams) dies and goes to heaven he meets his son who died a ...

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