Saturday, November 17, 2018

Another Reference to Beatrice

Going off of Natalia's post, I have found another reference to Beatrice in the mini cartoon series of "Over the Garden Wall". Throughout the episodes, there are many different allusions and parallel to Dante's Divine Comedy, but none so as blatant as the reference to Beatrice. In the show, two young boys are lost in a mysterious forest and are tasked with finding their way home, while meeting a variety of odd characters and avoiding something called The Beast. It is heavily implied throughout that they are journeying through some sort of afterlife or purgatory, and one of the few friendly creatures they encounter and who acts as their guide is a blue bird named Beatrice.

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