h, and held captive. Una is the virtue of truth and is the renewed, better version of the old church. She is Redcrosses one true love because without grace and truth, then holiness cannot succeed. Redcrosse begins his many adventures in a cave where he comes in contact with Error, a half-woman/half snake creature. As Redcrosse fights the evil creature, holiness is actually fighting against the Roman Catholic propaganda that was put out against Queen Elizabeth and the Anglicans. This is understood to us when Redcrosse is choking Error and her vomit full of books and papers came spewing forth from her. Redcrosse beats out the evil, barely escaping with his life because he did not listen to truth or Una. This type of occurrence happens throughout the entire story where Redcrosse faces some type of evil creature and barely escapes because of not listening to the truth and trusting too much in himself and others. Redcrosse faces many foes in his adventures. Most of them occur with two evil characters that use themselves repeatedly to try and trick Redcrosse and trip him up. One of these characters is Archimago whose name represents the images that the Catholic Church uses and the Protestants see as idolatry. He is able to change shape and images to appear as someone else and in this way is how he separates Redcrosse from Una. His powers, however, are not very strong and he is unable to keep the two apart in the end. The other evil character is Duessa whose name means falsehood and is the exact opposite of Una. She appears very beautiful, but is actually only skin deep. She uses herself to lead Redcrosse astray and into the hands of evil, but finds in the end that she is no match for the truth. Redcrosse is put up against many different virtues that he must overcome including: hopelessness, pride, loveless ness, despair, and many others. He always defeats the foes, but almost loses his life in many times in the process. Redcrosse never defeat...
