![]() ![]() This is the drama that undergirds the entire narrative in The Great Divorce, with the title of the work indicating the fundamental disjunction between choosing heaven or hell, a choice offered to each soul in a holiday from hell. The parallel between the two can be seen in the attempt to depict the choices of souls and their divergent destinations in either heaven or hell, as seen after death. In key respects, The Great Divorce can be seen as a modernized version of Dante's Divine Comedy. ![]() (1) In particular, I wish to address the question of Lewis's rhetorical strategy, his use of the tropes of allegory and symbol, as a way of representing the Christian understanding of sin and redemption against the backdrop of modernity's view of human nature. Lewis's notion of the self as represented in The Great Divorce. ![]()
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