Time to Change?

The video Two of the Twilight Zone, has some important symbols and meanings that relate to other pieces such as Dante’s Inferno. I will try to identify some of the relationships in order to understand the poetic justice.

I can relate the video with some symbols of Dante’s Inferno. For example, during the last circles, Dante sees that the people aren’t burning in hell, but stuck in ice. In this case, the ice represents the cold and hard hearts the treacherous had. In contrast, during Two, the scenario is a very lonely one just like the characters hearts. Nevertheless, there are other symbols that are the opposite, such as the dress. I understood the dress as a peace symbol, or a get away from that lonely heart. Meanwhile, in the Inferno no matter how much pain you have you must continue forever, with no exceptions. In the Inferno, the rules are much more strict, so we can see that the characters that caused pain will live with agonization eternally, while in the video the characters had the chance to change and the poetic justice ended up as a positive consequence.