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The Pilgrim’s Progress is both a religious book and a book of adventures-Explain

The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan is an allegorical drama that deals with the spiritual progress of the human soul towards heaven. Bunyan was a preacher and he wanted to bring people to the right path so that they could all attain salvation. He wanted the people to adopt ways that would enable them to throw off their burden of sins and become the elect of God. Bunyan had read novels and romances wherein brave soldiers fought against giants and dragons. So he thought of presenting the human soul as a knight going towards the Heavenly city and on the way fighting the forces of evil in the form of giants and dragons. Thus, in The Pilgrim’s Progress in which the progress of the soul towards salvation is shown as a pilgrimage from the city of Destruction to the celestial city. In this text, Bunyan teaches the sinners the mistakes they do on their way to salvation.Instead of writing a book in the form of sermons or advices, Bunyan wrote his text by presenting the struggle of the human
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THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS

Bring out the allegorical and symbolical elements in The Pilgrim’s  Progress. An allegory is a story or description in which abstract qualities, virtues and vices are personified and appear as characters. In a moral allegory, the characters representing virtue argue and fight against the characters representing vice and finally there is victory of virtue over vice. The Pilgrim’s Progress is the most faithful example of an allegory.Bunyan has used an allegorical mode to represent his religious ideas in the most effective way. Also, Bunyan had read Bible and it taught him that truth is easily understood when it is shown through the shape of parables, metaphors or allegories.Bunyan took his symbols from the Bible and the allegorical elements from his life and surroundings.Christ had said “I am the gate” through which a devotee can reach heaven. Hence, Bunyan made the wicket gate that stands for Jesus. Jesus called himself a shepherd who guided his followers as a shepherd guides h
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HUMOUR AND PATHOS IN LAMB’S ESSAYS

Wit and Humour are all pervasive in the essays of Lamb. Even in serious essays, some touch of humour, some sly remark, some bit of irony kill be found to amuse the reader . ‘Dream children’ is primarily an essay characterized & by an almost tragic quality but there are several touches of humour in it. The imaginary children’s reactions to what the author has to tell them are quit amusing. “Here Alice put out one of her dear mother’s looks, too tender to be called upbraiding.” Here john smiled, as much as to say, that would be foolish indeed.” “Here Alice spread her hands”. “Here john expanded all his eye-brows and fried to look courageous”. All these are touches of humour in an essay Which is other side highly moving. There is plenty of humour in the essay ‘Poor Relations’ The opening paragraph contains a large number of witty metaphors to describe a poor relation : “an odious approximation,” “ a haunting conscience, an unwelcome remembrances, ”a lio
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A Tale of Two Cities-Charles Dickens

Summary: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," Charles Dicken  writes in the opening lines of A Tale of Two Cities as he paints a picture of life in England and France. The year is late 1775, and Jarvis Lorry travels from London to Paris on a secret mission for his employer, Tellson's Bank. Joining him on his journey is Lucie Manette , a 17-year-old woman who is stunned to learn that her father, Doctor Alexandre Manette , is alive and has recently been released after having been secretly imprisoned in Paris for 18 years. When Mr. Lorry and Lucie arrive in Paris, they find the Doctor's former servant, Ernest Defarge, caring for the him. Defarge now runs a wine-shop with his wife in the poverty-stricken quarter of Saint Antoine. Defarge takes Mr. Lorry and Lucie to the garret room where he is keeping Doctor Manette, warning them that the Doctor's years in prison have greatly changed him. Thin and pale, Doctor Manette sits at a shoemaker's b
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Shooting an Elephant- George Orwell

Shooting an Elephant- George Orwell In the essay, Shooting an Elephant, George Orwell illustrates his experiences as a British police officer in Lower Burma, and reflects it to the nature of imperialism. Since “anti-European feeling was very bitter” due to the British Empire’s dictatorship in Burma, Orwell is being treated disrespectfully by the Burmese . This allows him to hate his job and the British Empire. However, the incident of shooting of an elephant gives him a “better glimpse … of the real nature of imperialism – the real motives for which cruel government act”. Through his life experiences as a British man, Orwell efficiently demonstrates the negative effects of imperialism on individuals and society. With the usage of effective diction in his essay, Orwell excellently conveys his emotions and message to his readers. He often uses the word “natives” for the Burmese: “Here was I, the white man with his gun, standing in front of the unarmed native crowd”. By do
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HATE- ARTHUR C. CLARKE

HATE- ARTHUR C. CLARKE Que.   Theme of the Story. Ans . This story is written by a prominent writer Arthur C. Clarke. He is a well known science fiction writer of America. The title itself suggests the theme of the story. It’s a story about hatred and how it goes away from the character‘s mind. In the beginning we can see the hatred but gradually at the end of the story it dosen’t remain. The main charcter if the story Tibor, a Hungarian, works as a pearl-diver. Tibor hates Russians because his loved ones were killed when the Russians invaded so, the Russians were hated by him. The setting of the story is Sea- Coast. Here we can also see the life of pearl- diver. How they have their own different world, different from land. In his dreams also Tibor has anger for Russians. The writer   has beautifully described the life of a Pearl-diver that Tibor thinks that down there on the seabed was wealth and death, and one could be sure of neither the chances we
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