PILGRIM'S PROGRESS: FROM THIS WORLD TO THAT WHICH IS TO COME
*PILGRIM'S PROGRESS*
*The entire book is presented as a dream sequence narrated by an omniscient narrator. The allegory's protagonist, Christian, is an everyman character, and the plot centres on his journey from his hometown, the "City of Destruction" ("this world"), to the "Celestial City" ("that which is to come": Heaven) atop Mount Zion. Christian has a rough time of it because of his past sins wearing him down, but Hopeful helps him over, and they are welcomed into the Celestial City.*
*The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come. The work is a symbolic vision of the good man's pilgrimage through life. The Pilgrim's Progress has great value as a literary work as well as a realistic story that expounds of salvation, temptation, the Christian's armor, and the benefits of Christian fellowship.*
*The Pilgrim's Progress demonstrates that knowledge is gained through travel by portraying Christian and his companions learning from their mistakes on their journey. Pilgrimage depends on travel, and so a Pilgrim must be a voyager prepared to go far and wide.*
*The Pilgrim's Progress is about a man named Christian who is anxious and ashamed of his sin and the burden on his back. He must make a journey to the Celestial City to find redemption.*
Pilgrim’s Progress is a Christian allegory, meaning that it has two levels of significance. On the surface, the story follows a man named Christian as he leaves the City of Destruction and journeys to a place called the Celestial City, encountering all sorts of roadblocks and fearsome creatures along the way. But on a deeper level, Pilgrim’s Progress charts the journey of an average Christian person as they strive to leave behind their destructive, sinful ways and get to Heaven.
The story of Christian’s journey is actually a dream that the book’s unnamed narrator is having. In the narrator’s dream, Christian is carrying a heavy burden on his back—the weight of his sins—and doesn’t know how to get rid of it. He’s also struggling with the knowledge that his