Bunyan leaves nothing to the imagination. All the characters that "Christian" meet on his journey to the Celestial Kingdom are named so you know who they are (Mr. Atheist, Piety, Faith,...., and towns are named Destruction, Vanity Faire and so on). It is an easy book to read and follow. "Man is ...
Well, I will have to thank the Classics of the Western Canon discussion group for selecting Pilgrim's Progess for this month's read because otherwise it would have continued to sit on my shelf until such a time as I got around to reading it. Okay, I probably don't follow the readings of many of thes...
If you want to ultimate example of allegory, this is it. Christian leaves his home in the City of Destruction to journey to the Celestial City. Evangelist helps him and he has companions like Faithful and Hopeful. The meaning of this book is not exactly hidden from the reader. If you aren't re...
bookshelves: philosophy, re-read, fraudio, play-dramatisation, fantasy, britain-england, published-1678, winter20092010, earlymodern16c-18c Read in December, 2009 Re-Read details: The epic adventures of Christian and his perilous journey to the Celestial City. John Bunyan dramatisation with Anto...
I read this as a teenager, because it was on the Catholic Church's 'forbidden' list. I loved it, it's humor & tongue-in-check take on things is what I remember the most.
I am going to review this as a literary work only and not a s a guide to salvation. The book is worth reading for two and only two reasons. First,it is continually referenced by other greater works because every literate, English speaking protestant was familiar with it for two centuries. Second,...
This is not a review of the religious sentiments expressed in this early allegorical novel. The allegory itself was heavy-handed, perhaps because the art of fiction was still young. There is much in the way of deus ex machina, miracles and the like, while the plot is not much developed. It falls som...
I'd wanted to write this review a while ago. However since I can't write it then I'll have to write it now. The Pilgrim's Progress is one of the most famous examples of allegory and also one of the most popular books ever published. I've heard that at one time it was as common to find this book in a...
A Christian allegory for man's journey to heaven, The Pilgrim's Progress follows Christian on his journey from the City of Destruction to Mount Zion and the Celestial City. Along the way he encounters many who will mislead him or do him harm as well as many terrors, such as the Valley of the Shadow...
On the one hand, I find this book pretty tedious; Bunyan works according to the dictum (originally addressed to speechwriters, I think) "Tell 'em what you're gonna tell 'em, tell 'em, tell 'em what you told 'em" and he's not at all subtle about it. And I really can't find the characters or their dil...
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