Story Ideas--Feedback needed!!

Okay, so I have two story ideas floating around in my head. I think they're great (of course, I thought of them, so it's not hard to venture a guess as to WHY I think they're great). I've bounced ideas off of my husband and sister, but they're a little biased, so I'm not sure that they're the most reliable sources :)

Idea 1: Dystopian Story (I haven't quite worked out some of the kinks, but have a bare bones concept right now): In order to establish control over its citizens, the government presents every young adult with a choice: they can either choose to marry someone of the government's choosing, or they can kill one person of the government's choosing. They are given one year to make their decision, and in that time, must get to know both the person they must kill, or the person they must marry.What happens when, for two people, whom they must kill or marry ends up being the same?

Idea 2: It's sort of The Divine Comedy Revisited. Dante is condemned to suffer in Hell for worshipping Beatrice, rather than God (I haven't decided yet if Virgil will be the guide through Hell, as he was in Dante's Inferno). Beatrice, of course, is living happily with her husband in paradise. Feeling bad for her part in the whole debacle, Beatrice intervenes on Dante's behalf, so that he may have a second chance at both redemption and love. He and (unnamed heroine) must travel through the nine circles of Hell in order to earn forgiveness and a fresh start. Disclaimer: I am not catholic, I just love this particular work, and thought that revisiting it in a new approach would make for interesting fiction. Although my inspiration was Dante's Inferno, this is a new work of fiction. Rather than trying to get to Beatrice, he is given a chance to move on.