Purgatorial and Infernal Realms & Desolation - GE PDF

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Purgatorial Realm / Middle Realm

• community patiently endures, hopes, and waits; people, though lost and in need of delivery from something outside themselves, are not really wicked
• a creative recapturing of community
• moving out of “fallen world” and/or seeking harmony ...

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Purgatorial Realm / Middle Realm        

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community patiently endures, hopes, and waits; people, though lost and in need of delivery from something outside themselves, are not really wicked a creative recapturing of community moving out of “fallen world” and/or seeking harmony with those in a “fallen world” moving towards a return to harmony and wholeness a sense of hope; the possibility of a restored future deception and disguise are used to make bad situations better world is dominated by imperfection and weakness rather than malice and evil characters flee to a green world, a place outside of the city where they can renew and heal wounds, a place where love abounds to change and modify human existence; a place where time is benevolent and permits healing love begins to be apprehended ending action is MERCY, rather than stern justice; mercy the outcome hoped for ( compassion, forgiveness)

Infernal Realm / Dark Realm / Lowest Realm        

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community has accepted the fallen condition, perhaps becoming cynical about its members innocence and truth are preyed upon; natural pleasures are distorted selfishness and malice are common lust, avarice, hypocrisy, and treachery are most prevalent vices irony and wit abound in characters’ language grace is absent; a sinister double of the virtues is present grotesque and bestial forces are beneath its surface end usually involves a reckoning in which community is reaffirmed; justice is meted out to offenders, and the innocent are vindicated “grace is utterly absent…where selfishness and malice prevail” “Love cannot dwell in such society…everyone is fundamentally alone” “Marriage is maligned in dark comedy” “Society has allowed its codes to degenerate to the falsest of conventions” “This is the realm of dirty jokes, of harmful trickery, of cruel deceit

Desolation – Great Expectations         

State of complete emptiness, misery, and loneliness Feeling of being deserted or ruined Bleakness, despondency, sorrow, guilt, shame, fear Characters associated with this feeling State of being abandoned or forsaken; utter loneliness Ties in with theme of isolation and loneliness Pip experiencing this feeling of desolation…where, when, why Pip’s relationship with other characters Pip’s feelings about his own life, his own state, his own desolation...