English Literature / Unit 10 ENL 0914 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress
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The idea
John Bunyan, a nonconformist preacher, was imprisoned for twelve years after sixteen sixty for refusing to stop preaching. His Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress, of sixteen seventy-eight, told as a dream, follows Christian, burdened by sin, from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City.
In practice
A pilgrim, a burden, a road to Heaven.
Where people slip
The names are the allegory: places are spiritual states.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
Unlocks
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