Dramatizing the Underworld in a Physical Setting

In The Deathly Hallows, Harry Potter literally enters a liminal underworld space where he speaks with the deceased Dumbledore. In Kung Fu Panda 2, Poe spends time in a healer's hut where he regains painful but important memories before returning to the final fight with the antagonist. Hospitals and graveyards are common liminal spaces for this beat, as in stories such as Terms of Endearment and Steel Magnolias. Whatever setting you do choose allows you to fully dramatize the life and death stakes, whether physical, spiritual, psychological, etc. If the character cannot symbolize the quickly brave the River Leithy, journey to the underworld and return transformed, then he