Ideas

It was purgatory

• A story about a group of holiday makers who are on a ferry across the channel from calais to an unknown destination
• Set in modern times or in ancient greece
• four main antagonists
• comedy/drama
• An allegory on the characters trip through purgatory to heaven or hell
• Or the characters literal trip to heaven or hell in the form of a boat dream journey
• The crew are the angels who's purpose are to decide where the passengers are going
• They do this in the form of moral questions to the passengers
• Each passenger has a morally faulted back story/life which the crew members reflect on in a series of flashbacks, stories about sea legends and pirates etc
• There are also tested by the crew in a series of decisions set by them on the ship
• The passengers are completely unaware that they are in purgatory and that they are dead
• The idea that in death like how we are in dreams we are unaware that we are dreaming
• The characters make their way through the hierachy of the crew until they get to the captain at the very end who decides where they are going
• In ends with the passengers all go to heaven 
• Call in to question symbolism and names such as greece gods, christian religious symbolism