'The Pilgrim's Progress' is one of the greatest allegories of all times, published in most of the world's major languages, and sometimes said to be the most popular book in the world after the Bible. 'The Pilgrim's Progress', a prose narrative symbolically concerned with the search for spiritual salvation, was written by Bunyan while he was imprisoned for illegal

Although very different in content these two books are both excellent pieces of literature that have been read, and enjoyed by people from all cultures and languages. Both books being Allegories means that people are able to read these books without having to understand the political or religious ideas behind them. They can also pass on very valuable lessons to people, 'Animal Farm' for example allows people to look back at the Russian Revolution and see how it happened, the book could stop something that terrible from happening again. 'Animal Farm' can cause people to think about human behavior, our need for power, how power can be a bad thing and can cause a great deal of misery and pain which could be avoided. He is saying that power can be taken advantage of and that power corrupts, the more power that people have the more they ultimately want. 'The Pilgrim's Progress' is aimed at teaching the Christian way of life as well as giving enjoyment. In spite of it being an allegory the book has a very straight forward and to the point theme. It is undecorated in its glory, there to serve the purpose of telling people about religion, and is not just for the entertainment of the reader.

The method is also used in Aesop's fables where he personifies different things in order to get certain morals and cautionary points across to people. One of these is when he uses the sun and the wind to represent good and evil he personifies them in a way that people find the story fun but also get the important moral hidden behind it. One of Aesop's most famous fables is 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf', where a boy cries wolf as a joke so many times that when there really is a wolf nobody believes him.

They did not realize that they were going against the animals they just did what they were told to do by the pigs. The cows like the sheep just went along with what happened, and did not question what was said. For example they did not protest to their milk being taken by Snowball and Napoleon, and they did not moan about their rations being reduced. They represent the unheard masses of Russia, the ones that realized what was going on but just kept quite because they were too scared to say anything. Moses the raven represents the Church and the whole religious system. Boxer represents the normal working people of Russia the ones who did not see any wrong in the country and just did what they were told all of the time this is shown by the way that he is always working hard and never complaining. Mollie the horse represents the Aristocracy in Russia the people that wanted a better way of life, this is shown by the way that she leaves the farm when she is not allowed to wear ribbons in her mane or have an easy life. The chickens in the story are parallel to the Tulux of Russia; the people that would not accept the way Stalin was running the country. They would not give up their farms to the state. This is represented in the book when the chickens refuse to give the pigs their eggs.

'The Pilgrim's Progress' also uses a lot of symbolism, but not in the same way as 'Animal Farm'. The whole book represents a person's search for salvation. The people in 'The Pilgrim's Progress' represent certain Human characteristics rather than a type of person. Also the things that happen to Christian on his journey represent things that happen to humans during their lives, feelings and emotions they have, and problems that the come across. Some of the people he comes across during the book are Help, Pliable, Hopeful, Ignorance, Worldly Wiseman and Faithful all of these are represented in the book exactly as their names suggest the would. For example 'Help' comes to help Christian during his journey when he is stuck in the Slough of Despond. 'Pliable' is the type of person who changes his mind a lot, he decided to join Christian on his journey at the beginning of the book. But he soon changes his mind when they meet with the first da

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