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The Pilgrim’s Progress
by John Bunyan
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The Pilgrim’s Progress: Genre 1 key example

Key Examples in The Pilgrim’s Progress

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Explanation and Analysis:

Pilgrim's Progress is a religious allegory and a work of fiction. As an allegory, the novel is meant to be read on two levels at the same time, with its surface story offering an engaging adventure and its underlying spiritual meanings offering religious instruction and edification. The novel fits into a longstanding tradition of Christian literary allegories, going back to Dante's Divine Comedy and William Langland's Piers Plowman in the 1300s, as well as the allegorical morality play, Everyman, which was written by an unknown author in the late 1400s.