The Pilgrim's Progress

In fact it seems that more and more people I talk too about Bunyan disliked Pilgrim’s Progress and some hated it with a passion. I admit that this book is very much unlike any other book one will read of my choices. It is an allegory and unfortunately allegories can be hard to follow and difficult to understand. With an allegory, the…

soldier in World War II, a mundane husband with a life he does not enjoy, a naive prisoner that is eventually enlightened in the far-flung planet of Trafalmadore, and a passive man that accepts his unexpected, unfortunate death. To commence with, in Pilgrim’s initial flashback it is shown that people around him belittle him and he typically perceived as a weakling. This is because the people around him expect to be an intrepid and heroic since he is a soldier when in reality he is the complete…

Destruction. This holds Christian back to an extent but they decide to focus on the future and on the happiness that will be found in the Celestial City, which gives them a renewed vigor to return to their journey. If I were to be a character in the Pilgrim’s Progress, I would be Sympathy. I would be Sympathy because my sensitivity could be channeled into a helpful character to assist Christian on his way to the Celestial City. Reinventing my own negative qualities into a positive character…

have “a limited range of meanings.” If a symbol can be reduced to one mere meaning, then it is an allegory –literature with one hidden meaning behind it, either social or political, that the reader is meant to discover. Two examples include The Pilgrim’s Progress and Animal Farm. 2. However, symbols are subject to myriad interpretations which is productive. Indeed, a contrast of outlooks brings about constructive, mind-provoking conversations to augment the literature discussion. For instance,…

their children were being ruined by the liberal Dutch lifestyle and they were losing their heritage.The news of the English Colony in Virginia motivated them to leave Holland and stay in a world that is better. Help and hard work were part of the Pilgrim's lifestyle. Before, they were troubled with hunger, disease, and environmental problems. The Pilgrims were dissidents from the Church of England and established the Puritan. The Pilgrims established a self-governing agreement on their own,…

Ragnarok by A.S Byatt is a novel about the experiences and internal struggles of a young girl who grew up in England during the World War II. The young girl, known as The Thin Child, lives in the England countryside as a result of the raging war in the city and of its surroundings. Throughout the novel the Thin Girl ponders many questions concerning why is the war happening?, is her father coming back? and whether or not the germans are good or bad people? To make sense of these questions, the…

How to Read Literature like a Professor Essay John Henson 09/25/17 Period 6 In the book “How to Read Literature like a Professor” many forms of literature are used to get the reader to understand why some of them are used and how to use them in certain situations. Terms such as Irony, allusion, symbolism, etc. are used in this book to get the reader to understand the way a professor writes literature and comprehend all of the terms themselves. For example the book…

John the Baptist seeing Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he told them, “Do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham” (Matt. 3:9). John the Baptist rebuking the Pharisees and Sadducees for boasting about their heritage. No one goes to heaven because of their association with a nation, their heritage or their traditions. Jesus came to save individuals not a community. Individual…

uses his occupation to get close to dimmesdale, protruding Chillingworth's fraudulence.Further developing the possession of chillingworth's psyche, Hawthorne symbolically represents satan making an allusion to the door of hell in Bunyan's “Pilgrim's Progress”.”Like one of those gleams of ghastly fire that darted from Bunyan's awful doorway”. Earlier in the passage Chillingworth eyes “burning blue and ominous”, were compared to the reflection of a furnace. Hawthorne's diction evolved from…

It’s stated, “In Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Progress” you may recall the description of the Man with the Muckrake...”. This refers to an article written where the author lied in order to make himself a hero, and the hero the villain. This allusion was important to the speech because it gave…