Pilgrim's Progress Allegory

In the allegory, Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan, there is a town called Vanity and in the town of Vanity there is Vanity Fair. Vanity Fair is a fair that was set up Beelzebub, or Satan, to provide every kind of entertainment for travelers and sell all types of merchandise all year long. The main character in the book, Christian, comes upon the fair during his journey. The journey can only be made by following the pathway to the Celestial City and being strong in the relationship that God has with everyone. Christian is challenged many times by the devil on his journey to the Celestial City, and going through Vanity Fair is one of the challenges. Vanity Fair is a place of temptation that is ran by the devil and Bunyan is saying that everybody …show more content…
Vanity could also be compared to a modern day Los Angeles or Las Vegas, even though the cities were not cities when this allegory was written, they can be compared to Vanity. Las Vegas is full of prostitution, sex appeal, fame, fortune and phony titles. Los Angeles is also full of prostitution, sex appeal, fame, fortune, phony titles, fine houses, false security, jewelry, reputations, virtues, honor, popularity, falsehoods, fictitious news, deceptions, personal influences, schemes, tricks, and beauty queens. The two cities and other big cities can be compared to Vanity. Bunyan is saying that the fair is an evil place where the devil lurks. The devil has brought all these people in and is using them to bring in more people, therefore Christian and Faithful have to stay close to God while going through the fair or they might be brought into sin and towards Satan if they fall away from God. John Bunyan is also saying that there are places like this in the world that will tempt people to go away from the path of God, but those people need to stay strong like Christian does and they also need to believe in the power of God and what He can do for those people in Heaven instead of taking the earthly things over