William Blake’s interpretations of “Dante’s inferno” were, in my opinion, not what Dante imagined because Dante talked about the nine circles of Hell being dark and dreary. William Blake’s made the story seem bright and colorful instead of making the …show more content…
The tone of the sentence matches the tone of the picture exactly. The picture creates suspense by the path through the forest blacked out, in order not to see what lurks in there. Imagine you are walking alone in the forest and you are no longer able to see the path you were walking on, it’s incredibly dark and you can’t see what is in front of you and you can’t see what is behind you. You would be petrified, that’s the exact emotion that Gustave Doré created for Dante.
All in All, I think Gustave Doré would have been a better artist for “Dante’s inferno.” He chooses to take a different route compared to William Blake and it created a much stronger emotional feeling. I do think that it would have to depend on the interpretation of the reader. For example, my interpretation of “Dante’s Inferno” might be completely different for another reader. This explains why Gustave Doré pictures were dark and dreadful while William Blake’s were bright and not so scary or