Pilgrim's Progress

Ai-May Tan, Section 1A--TA:Ian Newman

1. Common people are seen as heroes.
2. Rich people, be it male or female are evil due to their intense selfish desire for wealth or possessions.
3. Political allegory: -Landlords are depicted as Giants who insists on the ownership of private properties.
-People who are not nailed to one particular way of belief or thought are depicted as trespassers who try to cut through a rich man's land or property.
-Christian: depicted as a person who is not bounded by anything.
-Men and women can take their lives into their own hands, they can have freedom in having their own choice, their own thoughts. For example, when Christian left his home for the journey, his wife can follow if she chooses to do so.
-Laws and courts are impediments a person's freedom of choice and thought. They are the things that block Christian path for salvation.
5. In Pilgrim's Progress: -moral and story are depicted as the same thing.
6. Language in PP: -people's language,
-no abstractions, not to entertain courtly language,
-expressions of Bunyan's political stand,
that it is written so that the common person can read it for himself and not necessarily dependent on anybody to translate the text.
7.Ultimately, religion is not a matter of after life, but it should be about the present, here and now.