ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The Pilgrim’s Progress, religious allegory by the English writer John Bunyan, published in two parts in 1678 and 1684. The work is a symbolic vision of the good man’s pilgrimage through life. At one time second only to the Bible in popularity, The Pilgrim’s Progress is the most famous Christian allegory still in print.

Detailed explanation-2: -:1: Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress is an allegory. That is to say, it superposes two ways of understanding reality: a chronological lived-experience way and an allegorical spiritual way.

Detailed explanation-3: -Literal-journey from the City of Destruction to Celestial City despite great perils. Allegorical-the progress of any Christian from Baptism through trials to heaven.

Detailed explanation-4: -“What shall I do to be saved?” “Life, life, eternal life.” Here, this incident allegorically shows a Puritans utter helpessness, but later a spiritual journey or pilgrimage towards eternal world, since he must leave his worldiness to get salvation.