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Still, I think that unfortunately this part is passed over far too often and has many things of benefit in it. Read many years ago, recently re-read. Page after page of encouragement. My favorite thing in this second part is how much emphasis there is on God's faithfulness as seen in Christina's journey along with her sons and her daughters-in-law all the way into Eternity.
This book belongs in the museum gathering dust, only to be seen not to be read. What female could not be insulted when the book suggests that women need a guide to ascend to heaven because they don't have the heart for it? It's also blatantly racist.
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I don't care when it was written, it's rubbish. I love the story. This is the story about his wife. But this book is written in old English like the original Pilgrims Progress.
Pilgrim's Progress, Part 2: Christiana
Thought this was an updated version. Not as enjoyable for a child to read. Prefer "Dangerous Journey" version of Pilgrims Progress hands down. Jan 04, Dan Ray rated it did not like it Shelves: I'm just not the target audience. I'd imagine that if you're a christian fundamentalist this story is right up there with the adventures of hercules in terms of accessible mythos.
Also, you have to bear in mind the times when the book was published. Nov 25, Erin rated it it was amazing Shelves: I adore this second part of the Pilgrim's Progress! It may be even better than the first, but I don't know that it would be as powerful as a stand-alone. Truly an excellent, spiritually uplifting tale! Apr 12, Kendra Beth rated it it was amazing Shelves: What did I think?
It was an excellent book, written in such a way that kids 6 and up can relate to, enjoy, understand, and comprehend. It deals with life issues, religion and faith in an easy to understand way. I really loved this book. Jan 03, Charles Warner marked it as to-read. The first book being- "The Pilgrim's Progress". Mar 20, Tracy rated it liked it. I liked Christian's story but Christiana's was just the same story told again.
A whole story of introducing Christian's family to everyone who had heard about him. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. It's interesting that this scones up in the second part. In some ways Christiana is a far more relatable character than her husband. One critic points out that Christiana deals with a lot more real-life concerns such as baby sitters, tending to sick children and later being concerned about their choices of spouses.
On that note, the young lady Mercy whom she takes along as a servant, becomes the wife of her oldest son. And this demonstrates her attitude towards social differences. Although poore It's interesting that this scones up in the second part. Although poorer and hired as a servant, Mercy is always treated by Christiana as an equal human, more of a companion than otherwise. I think of Samwisr. And in the end she accepts Mercy literally as part of her family.
Aug 23, Joy rated it it was amazing. That's partly due to the fact that it was more "new" to me, but I also thought the allegory was somewhat more developed in Part 2. I especially enjoyed the ending, when each of the Pilgrims is individually called to cross the River of death and join the King in the Celestial City. I will read this part repeatedly, as it was awe-inspiring to me.
This Part 2 deserves a much wider reading than it presently en I thoroughly enjoyed Pilgrim's Progress, Part 1, but I found Part 2 even more enjoyable. This Part 2 deserves a much wider reading than it presently enjoys. I wish someone had introduced me to it long ago. Sep 25, James rated it liked it. Although a very book book, not as good as part 1.
It lacked a certain impetus as in the first and only really seems to be a repeat and summary of the first book, but, even still a must read. Apr 08, Adam Stevenson rated it liked it. When it comes to the sequel, Christiana definitely has it easier. The presence of Great-Heart nullifies the difficulties and problems of the pilgrims.
That said, the book does manage to address how weaker pilgrims can make their journey and the gentler pace does allow the characters to have more in-depth and interesting discussions on religious matters than the earlier book. Aug 13, Cheri Sletten rated it it was amazing Recommended to Cheri by: Amy Foundation Christian Classics list.
This was part of the Pilgrim's Progress audio book that I listened to in July. I'm glad I was able to have both parts, the whole story. Aug 31, Law Wei Xiang rated it it was amazing. This is more like an extension from Part 1 but made to suite different type of christians such as women, children, weak, church. Still as insightful as part 1.
Catherine rated it liked it May 12, Davo rated it liked it Dec 28, Shawn Flanagan rated it it was ok Nov 30, Morrison Dayal rated it it was amazing Mar 18, Eric Marcus rated it it was amazing Mar 29, Braimoh Simpa rated it it was amazing Aug 22, Sttikjt rated it it was ok May 16, Bill Chandler rated it it was amazing Feb 04, There are no discussion topics on this book yet. When Christiana's party leaves Gaius's Inn and Mr. Feeble-Mind lingers in order to be left behind, he is encouraged to accompany the party by Greatheart:.
I have it in commission, to comfort the feeble-minded, and to support the weak. You must needs go along with us; we will wait for you, we will lend you our help, we will deny ourselves of some things, both opinionative and practical, for your sake; we will not enter into doubtful disputations before you, we will be made all things to you, rather than you shall be left behind. The pilgrims learn of Madame Bubble who created the Enchanted Ground and Forgetful Green, a place in the Valley of Humiliation where the flowers make other pilgrims forget about God's love.
Ready-To-Halt come to Bypath-Meadow and, after much fight and difficulty, slay the cruel Giant Despair and the wicked Giantess Diffidence, and demolish Doubting Castle for Christian and Hopeful who were oppressed there. They free a pale man named Mr. Despondency and his daughter named Much-Afraid from the castle's dungeons.
When the pilgrims end up in the Land of Beulah, they cross over the River of Death by appointment. As a matter of importance to Christians of Bunyan's persuasion reflected in the narrative of The Pilgrim's Progress , the last words of the pilgrims as they cross over the River of Death are recorded.
The four sons of Christian and their families do not cross but remain for the support of the church in that place. Scholars have pointed out that Bunyan may have been influenced in the creation of places in The Pilgrim's Progress by his own surrounding environment. Albert Foster [18] describes the natural features of Bedfordshire that apparently turn up in The Pilgrim's Progress. Vera Brittain in her thoroughly researched biography of Bunyan, [19] identifies seven locations that appear in the allegory. Other connections are suggested in books not directly associated with either John Bunyan or The Pilgrim's Progress.
At least twenty-one natural or man-made geographical or topographical features from The Pilgrim's Progress have been identified—places and structures John Bunyan regularly would have seen as a child and, later, in his travels on foot or horseback. The entire journey from The City of Destruction to the Celestial City may have been based on Bunyan's own usual journey from Bedford , on the main road that runs less than a mile behind his cottage in Elstow , through Ampthill , Dunstable and St Albans , to London. In the same sequence as these subjects appear in The Pilgrim's Progress , the geographical realities are as follows:.
The allegory of this book has antecedents in a large number of Christian devotional works that speak of the soul's path to Heaven , from the Lyke-Wake Dirge forward. Bunyan's allegory stands out above his predecessors because of his simple and effective prose style, steeped in Biblical texts and cadences. Due to many similarities — some more definite than others — it could be argued that he had access to Dante's Commedia.
The Pilgrim's Progress may, therefore, be a distillation of the entire 'pilgrimage' that the 14th Century Italian penned. Because of the widespread longtime popularity of The Pilgrim's Progress , Christian's hazards — whether originally from Bunyan or borrowed by him from the Bible—the "Slough of Despond", the "Hill Difficulty", "Valley of the Shadow of Death", "Doubting Castle", and the "Enchanted Ground", his temptations the wares of "Vanity Fair" and the pleasantness of "By-Path Meadow" , his foes "Apollyon" and "Giant Despair" , and the helpful stopping places he visits the "House of the Interpreter", the "House Beautiful", the "Delectable Mountains", and the "Land of Beulah" have become commonly used phrases proverbial in English.
For example, "One has one's own Slough of Despond to trudge through. The Pilgrim's Progress was much more popular than its predecessors. Bunyan's plain style breathes life into the abstractions of the anthropomorphized temptations and abstractions that Christian encounters and with whom he converses on his course to Heaven. Samuel Johnson said that "this is the great merit of the book, that the most cultivated man cannot find anything to praise more highly, and the child knows nothing more amusing. It was published over the years of the Popish Plot — and ten years before the Glorious Revolution of , and it shows the influence of John Foxe 's Acts and Monuments.
Bunyan presents a decrepit and harmless giant to confront Christian at the end of the Valley of the Shadow of Death that is explicitly named "Pope":. Now I saw in my Dream, that at the end of this Valley lay blood, bones, ashes, and mangled bodies of men, even of Pilgrims that had gone this way formerly: But by this place Christian went without much danger, whereat I somewhat wondered; but I have learnt since, that Pagan has been dead many a day; and as for the other, though he be yet alive, he is by reason of age, and also of the many shrewd brushes that he met with in his younger dayes, grown so crazy and stiff in his joynts, that he can now do little more than sit in his Caves mouth, grinning at Pilgrims as they go by, and biting his nails, because he cannot come at them.
But as in other fairs , some one Commodity is as the chief of all the fair , so the Ware of Rome and her Merchandize is greatly promoted in this fair: Only our English Nation, with some others, have taken a dislike thereat. In the Second Part while Christiana and her group of pilgrims led by Greatheart stay for some time in Vanity, the city is terrorized by a seven-headed beast [42] which is driven away by Greatheart and other stalwarts. Owens notes about the woman that governs the beast: In a posthumously published treatise, Of Antichrist, and his Ruine , Bunyan gave an extended account of the rise and shortly expected fall of Antichrist.
Not long after its initial publication, The Pilgrim's Progress was being translated into multiple languages starting with Dutch in , German in and Swedish in , as well as over eighty African languages during the colonial period. Hong Xiuquan , the leader of the Christianity-inspired Taiping Rebellion , declared that the book was his favorite reading. Little did the missionaries who distributed The Pilgrim's Progress know that the foreigners would appropriate it to make sense of their own experiences. Heaven was often a place designed to resemble what they had gone through in life.
For example, in South Africa, a version was written where the injustices which took place in that country were reformulated. The Third Part of the Pilgrim's Progress was written by an anonymous author; beginning in , it was published with Bunyan's authentic two parts.
It continued to be republished with Bunyan's work until The book was the basis of a condensed radio adaptation, originally presented in and starring John Gielgud , which included, as background music, several excerpts from Vaughan Williams' orchestral works. The radio version was newly recorded by Hyperion Records in , in a performance conducted by Matthew Best. Each is accompanied by a poem, either by Bernard Barton or by Miss Landon herself. These plates are as follows:.
In Twain's later work Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , the titular character mentions The Pilgrim's Progress as he describes the works of literature in the Grangerfords' library. Twain uses this to satirize the Protestant Southern aristocracy. Cummings makes numerous references to it in his prose work, The Enormous Room. Progressive thinkers have replaced the footpath by a railroad, and pilgrims may now travel under steam power. The journey is considerably faster, but somewhat more questionable. Nathaniel Hawthorne 's novel The Scarlet Letter makes reference to it by way of the author John Bunyan with a metaphor comparing a main character's eyes with the fire depicted in the entrance to Hell in The Pilgrim's Progress.
Standfast , which also takes its title from one of Bunyan's characters. Alan Moore , in his League of Extraordinary Gentlemen , enlists The Pilgrim's Progress protagonist, Christian, as a member of the earliest version of this group, Prospero's Men , having become wayward on his journey during his visit in Vanity Fair, stepping down an alleyway and found himself in London in the s, and unable to return to his homeland.
This group disbanded in after Prospero vanished into the Blazing World ; however, some parts of the text seem to imply that Christian resigned from Prospero's League before its disbanding and that Christian traveled to the Blazing World before Prospero himself. The apparent implication is that; within the context of the League stories; the Celestial City Christian seeks and the Blazing World may in fact be one and the same. In Louisa May Alcott 's Little Women , the protagonist Jo and her sisters read it at the outset of the novel, and try to follow the good example of Bunyan's Christian.
Throughout the novel, the main characters refer many times to Pilgrim's Progress and liken the events in their own lives to the experiences of the pilgrims. A number of chapter titles directly reference characters and places from Pilgrim's Progress.
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The strip ran from 26 June to 18 December In it, the protagonist Mr. Bunion is constantly frustrated in his attempts to improve his life by ridding himself of his burdonsome valise, "Dull Care". It is an allegory of C. Lewis' own journey from a religious childhood to a pagan adulthood in which he rediscovers his Christian God. The protagonist of the semi-autobiographical novel is John Bullock, the quintessential English soldier during World War I. The Children's Crusade , is a clear homage to a similar journey to enlightenment experienced by Christian, although Billy's journey leads him to an existential acceptance of life and of a fatalist human condition.
Vonnegut's parallel to The Pilgrim's Progress is deliberate and evident in Billy's surname. Walt Willis and Bob Shaw 's classic science fiction fan novelette, The Enchanted Duplicator , is explicitly modeled on The Pilgrim's Progress and has been repeatedly reprinted over the decades since its first appearance in Steinbeck's novel was itself an allegorical spiritual journey by Tom Joad through America during the Great Depression , and often made Christian allusions to sacrifice and redemption in a world of social injustice.
The book was commonly referenced in African American slave narratives , such as "Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom" by Ellen and William Craft , to emphasize the moral and religious implications of slavery. And then Mercy, -- that's me, ye ken, -- will faint[. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For the Kula Shaker album, see Pilgrims Progress album. This article appears to contain trivial, minor, or unrelated references to popular culture.
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Usually, each emblem occupied a page and consisted of an allegorical picture at the top with underneath it a device or motto, a short Latin verse, and a poem explaining the allegory. Bunyan himself wrote an emblem book, A Book for Boys and Girls Studies in the Topography of Pilgrim's Progress , London: Archived from the original on 8 November Retrieved 28 October University Press, , Underwood, Ampthill in old picture postcards , Zaltbommel, Netherlands: Cook, Prospect of Cambridge , London: Foster, Ampthill Towers , London: The Novel , New York: Morton, In Search of London , London: University Press, , 66, University Press, , 86, Spence , God's Chinese Son ,