The Pilgrim's Progress: Critical and Historical Views

allegory answer Apollyon appears argument becomes beginning belief Bunyan called Castle Celestial City century character Christ Christian church City claims comes common concern conversion course criticism danger death described Despair divine doctrine Doubting dream effect English episode example experience fact Fair Faithful fall fear figures final Gate Giant given gives Grace ground hand Heaven hero Hopeful House human Ignorance imaginative individual interpretation John Bunyan journey kind land language less literature live London look means metaphor mind moral narrative nature never once opening Pilgrim's Progress pilgrimage poem possible present Puritan question reader reading relation religious response romance seems sense Sharrock shows simply social spiritual story suggests Talkative theological things thought tion tradition true truth turn Valley Vanity vision walk whole writing