Jeux et nothing better to do

So, has anyone thought about how Portal is a giant allusion to Purgatory?

There is (seemingly) no reason to be putting Chell through these horrible experiments is for GLaDOS’ sadistic pleasure.

But what if it’s REALLY a test?

Not a Scientific test, but a test of character and determination as to redeem oneself? Perhaps GLaDOS taunts of “All your other friends
couldn’t come either, because you don’t have any other friends because of how
unlikable you are” It says so right here in your personnel file; ‘Unlikable.
Liked by no one. A bitter unlikable loner whose passing shall not be mourned.’…
It also says you were adopted. So that’s funny too”Isn’t just pointless mocking, but a reminder of Chell’s former life?”.

It’s also heavily implied that GLaDOS could possibly be a much more knowing being as some kind of tester for Purgatory. Quotes like “Speaking of
curiosity, you’re curious about what happens after you die, right? Guess what?
I know.”

Quotes like this have a much more significant meaning when thought of in this context.

“I feel sorry for you, really. Because you’re not even in the right place.”

“This is your fault. It didn’t have to be like this.”

“You’re not a good person, you know that, right? Good people don’t end up
here.”

At the end of the game, we see Chell getting dragged by some unseen force, most likely GLaDOS. This is because Chell isn’t done redeeming herself.

Assuming that Aperture Science is Purgatory, it is safe to assume that The Furnace is representative of Hell, and The Cake is representative of Heaven. The wall scribblings allude to people’s real life crisis of faith in “The Cake Is A Lie”, and people’s strong refusal to throw their companion into The Furnace, and the desperate drawings of the Companion Cube with Angel Wings.

At the end you go floating to the sky.