ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -In Pilgrim’s Progress, Vanity Fair is a year-long fair in the place or town called Vanity. Evangelist accompanies Christian and Faithful to Vanity, warning them that the people there will try to “take their crown, ” or undo all their faith “because the town where it is kept is lighter than vanity, (Psa.

Detailed explanation-2: -“Vanity Fair” originally meant “a place or scene of ostentation or empty, idle amusement and frivolity”-a reference to the decadent fair in John Bunyan’s 1678 book, The Pilgrim’s Progress.

Detailed explanation-3: -Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. Then I saw in my dream, that when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before them, and the name of that town is Vanity; and at the town there is a fair kept, called Vanity Fair. It is kept all the year long.

Detailed explanation-4: -Calling his story “The Pilgrim’s Progress, ” Bunyan is generalizing in an important way. The “progress, ” or journey, that he’s going to narrate is every man’s journey who sets out on a pilgrimage. But he’s especially shouting out to those who are searching for Christ and trying to act as good Christians.