Image of purgatory in Divine Comedy and Journey to the West

For a long time, death and the world have since been of the greatest mental and psychological questions of mankind. Every tribe with any culture from its point of view has created its own question, which, beyond its correctness or falsehood, has been calm for its believers. Among the various writings on the subject, “Divine Comedy” of Christian Dante and “Journey to the West” by Aghanaghi Ghouchani are two books, both of which have tried to illustrate world after death, step by step and punctually based on their religious beliefs. Both writers have divided the afterlife into three parts of Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso or in persain purgatory, Behesht and Jahannam. Although the writers’ goal is the eternal happiness and salvation of humans, but with the difference that Dante has been influenced by his social disaster in his writing, but Aghanajafi portrayed” Journey to the West” on the basis of religious and narrative literature. It is obvious that because these two books come from two writers who have a religion, language, and timing, so many uncertainties can be found among them. But the surprise is that many similarities are found among them. Another of the uncertainties of these two writings is that Dante’s foundation in purgatory is based on seven great sins, but Aghanaghi’s foundations is wider and considers separate atonement for every sin. For example, from the perspective of Dante, every sinful person who does not repent will die into hell, but if he repents, he first goes to hell and after he clears his sins he will go to Paradise. However, from the point of view of Aghanajafi, all the dead should go to purgatory.