Essay Comparing The Inferno And The Holy Grail

To begin, one similarity between Dante’s The Inferno and Perceval and the Holy Grail is that they are both epics. An epic is “telling a story about a hero or about exciting events or adventures” (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). That definition gives the idea that the two epics, Dante’s The Inferno and Perceval and the Holy Grail are based on characters who are courageous and ready to take on any adventure that they are given. Perceval's story has a complex concept, but is makes it simple for the readers to interpret the quest, unlike The Inferno. Although, Dante’s The Inferno has a hero with several distinct characteristics and has a stronger cultural background than Perceval and the Holy Grail.

Both epics, Percival and The Holy Grail and Dante’s

To begin, Dante’s The Inferno is much more detailed than Perceval and the Holy Grail. The author of Dante’s The Inferno explains the different parts of Dante’s adventure, unlike Perceval and the Holy Grail. Another difference in the writing styles between the epics is that Perceval and the Holy Grail has a more simple aspect than the other epic. The author of Perceval wrote the story in a way that is easy for one to imagine, as if it was them taking the adventure. Though the author of The Inferno uses many similes just as Perceval and the Holy Grail does. An example of one would be “Just as a swimmer, who with his last breath flounders ashore from perilous seas, might turn to memorize the wide water of his death so did I turn, my soul fugitive from death’s surviving image, to stare down that pass that none had ever left alive” (Alighieri 624). In this epic from Dante’s The Inferno the author is comparing a swimmer who feels like he is about to die as he may be seeing his last destination, just as Dante May be having a near death experience, in where he could be seeing his last