The Pilgrim's Progress

The author of the natorious novel Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan wrote many works in his time, and he developed new techniques to catch his readers’ attention. Like most of Bunyan’s works, he writes about God and His love, healing, mercy, and grace. Bunyan also writes about having faith and following God, against all odds. His life was full of trouble based on what he wrote about, but that he didn’t stop. He knew that the only way to get peoples attention to try and help them with their life after death was to capture his audience through his writing talent. Bunyan’s talent develped with event that occurred in his life and his writing became stronger and deeper than what it was previously. He started writing as a young adult and was influened by his parents, Thomas and Margaret Bunyan, and John’s brother, Charles, and…

John Bunyan, a prestigious writer, is right up with Shakespeare of the late Renaissance. Born in a poor family, he was recruited to a religious and political war at the age of sixteen and was trapped in a tough life for a long time. In 1660, Bunyan was arrested for preaching, which led him to twelve years in prison. During his long prison life, he finished the first part of The Pilgrim’s Progress, a classical English literary work praised as “the most well-known allegory of the English…

Lutheran theology echoes throughout the Pilgrim’s Progress, particularly through John Bunyan’s representations of law and grace. These are two critical ideas that Bunyan presents through his allegory. The ideas are detailed mostly in the beginning of Christian’s journey, as the beginning of one’s faith, where it is easiest to become confused on the nature of salvation. To fully grasp Bunyan’s meaning is to understand what law and grace mean, and how they relate to each other. The concepts, like…

Christian and Christiana’s paths started off at the same place, but took much different routes based upon their individual statuses. According to Margret Breen in her writing titled “The Sexed Pilgrim’s Progress”, Bunyan sought to show not only a difference between Christian and Christiana, but the superiority that Christian had over Christiana. “Bunyan uses social placement in order to define spiritual status. At times the two are set at extremes; at times they merge together” (Breen 445-6).…

From the novel the Pilgrim’s Process, written by John Bunyan, I have chosen two episodes, one that is more suitable for children, and the other more appropriate for adults. The episode of Christian fighting Apollyon is better fitted for a children’s version of Pilgrim’s Progress. Christian and Hopeful crossing the River is more fitting for an adult version of the text. The event of Christian and Apollyon fighting is better suited for a child’s rendition of the Pilgrim’s Progress. Although the…

Allegories are always very thought-provoking to read. The book, The Pilgrim’s Progress is a very long, descriptive, and fascinating allegory that was written in 1678 by John Bunyan. It takes the Christian walk, and demonstrates it by having the main Character, Christian, travel a pathway, called the King’s Highway, to the Celestial City, which is Heaven. All of the places and Characters along the way have names that have significant meanings to how they play into the story. I can compare…

When Bunyan is writing The Pilgrim’s Progress, the literary qualities of his narrative, such as characterization, inclusion of vivid details of action and setting, and his effective use of language, add a dimension to his text that enrich the allegory rather than take away from it. Through his use of these devices Bunyan is able to add to his narrative rather than detract from his Christian message. Bunyan worries about the reception of his book in the first few pages. In his intro he asks…

The Pilgrim’s Progress Sin is the act of transgression against divine law. During the 1600s in England, there were two Conventicle Acts that made it a crime for any five people of the same family to meet in a private house under color of religion. John Bunyan, an evangelical Baptist preacher, was incarcerated for twelve years at the Bedford jail because he insisted on preaching the word of Christ. During his incarceration, he used his time wisely to write a novel called, The Pilgrim’s Progress,…

John Bunyan writes The Pilgrim’s Progress to assert his beliefs about proper Christianity. Throughout his novel, Bunyan constantly uses his characters’ actions and words to show readers what he believes to be the correct version of Christianity. He publishes The Pilgrim’s Progress during the Protestant Revolution, a time when people start to think for themselves and choose their own beliefs. Consequently, Bunyan’s novel judges non-Lutheran faiths and glorifies his beliefs in what may be an…

A Pilgrim’s Progress Literary Analysis A Pilgrim’s Progress, an allegorical novel by John Bunyan, follows the journey of Christian, a man traveling from the sinful City of Destruction to the Celestial City after experiencing spiritual conviction and direction from Evangelist. Christian encounters numerous friends and foes along the way, until, after great turmoil, he reaches the City at last. Though Bunyan includes a variety of characters and places that accurately represent the various facets…