He explains that he was born into a family t. While the narrator looks out the window, the Poet tells him about his life. He has walked around what he begins call. Another work of Christian literature that influenced Lewis heavily is John Bunyan’s A Pilgrim’s Progress (1678), an allegorical work about an everyman who moves from Earth into Heaven. The narrator finds himself in a large crowd that seems to be waiting for a bus.
The spirit of the author George MacDonald guides the Narrator through the Valley of the Shadow of Life, alluding to MacDonald’s own work but also to Dante’s Divine Comedy (composed between 13), in which the spirit of the Roman poet Virgil guides Dante through the stages of the afterlife. There are also many other literary allusions in the novel. Lewis disagreed with Blake’s argument so strongly that he wrote The Great Divorce as a response to Blake-as the title suggests, Lewis wants to reiterate the differences between Heaven and Hell instead of blending them together. Everything you need for every book you read. In this long poem, Blake constructs a complicated argument about why good and evil are “two sides of the same coin,” and equally necessary to life. Lewis Upgrade to A + Intro Plot Summary Summary & Analysis Themes Characters Symbols Theme Wheel Teachers and parents Struggling with distance learning Our Teacher Edition on Great Divorce can help. Perhaps the most important such work is William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (composed between 17). The book alludes to many famous works of Christian literature.
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