pair and Flatterer). None of these characters, except two of them, Faithful and Hopeful, share any of his experiences.The Pilgrim’s Progress is written in a form similar to stories of romance and chivalry. It is through these hardships that the hero (the knight) has to endure in order that he can be successful. And of course, this is what attracts the majority of readers. It is without doubt that the readers are going to enjoy the story while forgetting the whole religious teaching behind. Bunyan is well aware of this and therefore he remembers at the end of Part One, to remind his readers of his aim of writing this story. He asks them not to become too interested in the outside (the writings, the figures) but the inside (the whole spiritual truth). We, as the readers, have to keep in mind that Bunyan is not writing this book for sheer literary enjoyment, he is not in any way, a man of commerce. He is after all a preacher and his sole aim is to get people into understanding the whole spiritual truth behind his allegory. Still we cannot deny the fact Bunyan has done a great job, and that his “piety” is likely to be undermined. His book has become one of the greatest literary works of our times and this is because of his “genius”. And so Coleridge is right in his remarks: “His piety was baffled by his genius; and Bunyan the dreamer overcame the Bunyan of the conventicle.”...
