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Pilgrim's Progress
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The Pilgrim's Progress (1678)

 

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To the contemporaries of John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress was a novel, a fairy tale, and an adventure romance. To a modern reader it is above all an allegory in which the author expands the metaphor of life as a journey to allegorize the life of a Protestant Christian.

   
Summary
  The Pilgrim's Progress tells of the flight of a Christian from the City of Destruction. As he is fleeing from home with the burden of his sins upon his back, he falls into the Slough (a deep ditch) of Despond, but frees himself with the assistance of Help, passes through a little wicket-gate, and so begins his journey to the Celestial City. He loses his burden at he Cross, fights with Apollyon in the Valley of Humiliation, is terrified in the Valley of the Shadow of Death, suffers in Vanity Fair, is almost overcome in Doubting Castle by Giant Despair, but at last reaches the Delectable Mountains and the Land of Beulah. He then crosses the River of Death and is received into the Celestial City. In the course of his long journey or pilgrimage, Christian meets Pliable, Mr. Worldly-Wise, Talkative, Lord Hategood, Mr. Facing-both-ways, and others, all allegorical character, but very real. 
 
   
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English Literature I: the Eighteenth Century Litrature

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