Similarities Between The Lion King And Dante's Inferno

The Lion King is actually Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Chi-Raq is actually Aristophanes' Lysistrata. The concept of basing current works on classics is not a foreign idea, and similarly Gloria Naylor writes Linden Hills based on Dante’s Inferno. Naylor includes similarities from emphases on certain details to character development that bridges the two stories superficially; in fact, she has significant differences to The Inferno like her motives for writing Linden Hills. Similarities include the descriptions of the devil, the parallel character identities, and the direct relationship between Drives in Linden Hills and Circles in Hell. The ice and coldness that shrouds the lowest layers of Hell become more prevalent as one moves down toward Tupelo Drive. For example, Dante describes the devil as being fixed in the ice where the rivers of guilt meet and having

Both authors each are conveying a different idea to the public. It is true that both authors are venting their frustration against society through their work, but the origin of their distress is different and in the end yields two different conclusions. For Dante, it includes the frauds in Florence and the Roman Catholic Church. The most iconic people like Filippo Argenti in Circle V who was a political enemy of Dante is targeted (65). “After Filippo Argenti! All cried together. The maddog Florentine wheeled at their cry and bit himself for rage. I saw them gather. And there we left him (62).” Dante is trying to humiliate a lifetime enemy in his book. Going lower into Dante’s hell, the people closest to Satan are simoniacs and those who betray. As Dante even included Popes like Boniface VIII and Clement V below murderers, he saw the Catholic Church as a huge threat to society. The purpose for Dante writing The Inferno was to take revenge on his enemies while also pointing out significant flaws he perceived permeated Florentine