John Bunyan
1. Masterpiece: The pilgrim’s progress
2. The “vanity fair” symbolizes human word, for all that comth is vanity Everything and anything in this world is vanity, having no value and no meaning. The vanity fair, a “market selling nothingness” of all sorts, is a dirty place originally built up by details, but, this town “lay” in the way to the Celestial City, meaning pilgrims had to resist the temptations there when they made their way through. So, the depiction of the “Fair” in selling things worldly and in attracting people bad, represents John Bunyan’s rejection of the worldly seekings and pious longing for the pure and charming “Celestial city”, his Christian ideal.
A. 作品风格
a. Bunyan’s style was modeled after that of the English Bible.
b. He used concrete and living language and vivid details.
c. He made it possible for the reader of the least education to share the pleasure of reading his novel.
B. 代表作
a. The Pilgrim’s Progress is the most successful religious allegory in the English language
b. Its predominant metaphor— life as a journey— is simple and familiar.
