Ryan Millers Blog: Story Planning: Modern day Dantes Inferno

So for my planning phase I want to focus on making the story of Dantes Inferno more current and relatable. I plan on changing up a lot of the character including changing the guide. I was thinking of changing the guide from Virgil to a more modern poet Dr. Seuss. Dr. Seuss saves Dante from the leopard (represents lack of self-control) , lion (represents violence), and she wolf (represents fraud) that hunt him through the woods. He tells Dante that he has been sent by his “Divine Love” Beatrice has sent him to guide him through hell so that she may guide him through purgatory. If Dante doesn’t come with Dr. Seuss the beasts will kill him, so he decides to take the journey through Hell. Dr. Seuss explains to Dante the 9 levels of Hell: Limbo, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Anger, Heresy, Violence, Fraud, and Treachery. Dr. Seuss guides Dante through the gates of Hell and the ferryman, Charon, takes them across the Acheron river. Dante find himself in Limbo, where ill need to come back and add modern people to be in this level of hell. He next goes to the level of Lust where he finds the famous golfer Tiger Woods there. Next in Gluttony he finds Lindsay Lohan. In Greed he finds people such a C. Montgomery Burns from the Simpsons. In Anger he finds the Hulk, Mel Gibson, and Anger from Inside Out. Going to come back to the Heresy level. For the Violence level, some of the most famous serial killers of all time will be featured: Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, Ted Bundy, OJ Simpson and many others. Fraud will be spotlighted by Charles Ponzi, Bernie Madoff, Rush Limbaugh and Jeffrey Skilling. The treachery level will have people such as Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Guy Fawkes, Benedict Arnold, and Kevin Durant. So I plan on building around these ideas a lot more in the coming week and will have appropriate punishments.