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Selected Reading : The Pilgrim’s Progress 4. Bunyan cherished a deep hatred of both the king and his government. 5. Bunyan’s prose is admirable. It is popular speech ennobled by the solemn dignity and simplicity of the language of the English Bible. Selected Reading : The Pilgrim’s Progress 6.Symbolism is another feature in The Pilgrim’s Progress. 人生→朝圣者们的艰难历程 人→天路的朝圣者 基督寻求救赎的朝圣历程→ 人类摆脱世间烦恼和焦虑、 追求美好永恒未来的过程。 Selected Reading : The Pilgrim’s Progress 1. the imagery A: The Pilgrim’s Progress is the most successful religious allegory in the English language . Its purpose is to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and seek salvation through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils. Selected Reading : The Pilgrim’s Progress B. its predominant metaphor—life is a journey—is simple and familiar 2. The features A: the strange is combined with the familiar and the trivial joined to the divine. B: A rich imagination and a natural talent for storytelling also contribute to the success of the work.  Alexander Pope 1688-1744 1. His Life Pope is a classical poet in the period of English Enlightenment. At the age of 12, he contracted tuberculosis of the spine that left him dwarfed, twisted and hunchbacked. II. His thoughts The view of realism A: He upheld the existing social system as an ideal one, but he was not entirely blind to the rapid moral, political and cultural deterioration. B. He assumed the role of champion of traditional civilization, but for him the supreme value was order. 2. The view of criticism A: He published The Rape of the Lock and use the mock epic form to retell the cutting of the lock, to ridicule the trivial incident and to satirize the foolish, meaningless life of the lords and ladies in the aristocratic bourgeois society of the eighteenth century England. B. The Dunciad, generally considered Pope’s best satiric work, is directed at Dullness in general. Dullness as reflected in the corruptness of govern