Bunyan, Swift, and Pope

A detailed Summary of Bunyan, Swift, and Pope

John Bunyan was not the first to write a significant work on the

metaphorical journey of life. The story of a man traveling through familiar

alien territory while meeting strange people and places has transcended all

ages of literature. HomerÆs Odyssey tells the story of Odysseus return from

the Trojan War, DanteÆs Comedy is the journey thought the 3 realms of the

afterlife, SpenserÆs Faerie Queen exhibit the human virtues while traveling

through forests, castles, and meeting dragons. However, The PilgrimÆs

Progress is indeed a progression form these works; until this point, these

allegories had been written as poems. Bunyan writes in prose, possibly

because he was not schooled in letters but in metalworking and wasnÆt

trained to shape his words the way previous writers had.

In fact, BunyanÆs style is very unique. While undertaking a similar task

that John Milton faced, that is, to make the basis of the Bible more

identifiable for the reader, Bunyan interlopes quotation from the Bible into

his prose. Its almost as if Bunyan had written a research paper and the

Bible was his data. From Vanity Fair: ôOne chanced mockingly, beholding the

This Troika of writers gives the reader an ethical guidebook. Together,

rational creature; so their grand maxim is to cultivate reason, and be

with his views towards the benefits of a commune instead of an individual.

Shakespeare. On a grander scale, this passage of SwiftÆs satire exposes the

And whop but wishes to invert the laws

Pope thinks that we as people are improperly using the gift of reason, for

Rubbish here, but it works with Pope.)

Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes,

created within ourselves to piece together. All three essentially tell us,

Approximate Word count = 1735
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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