英国作家简介之John_Bunyan

Christian’s Journey
Allegorical People Allegorical Places
the Celestial City Faithful Truth 天国城 the Delectable Mountains Judge Hate-good 快乐山 恨善法官 Doubting Castle Envy Superstition 怀疑城堡 the Vanity Fair 名利场 Pickthank拍马 the Slough of Despond Badman恶人 绝望泥潭 the City of Destruction Malice怨恨 毁灭城
Part 1: Bunyan's life
John Bunyan(1628— 1688)
• Of humble origin, a son of a tinsmith • His life covered the period of the great crisis in the puritan struggle for the survival of their various versions of extreme Protestant faith, and himself was of Baptist sympathies. • Took part in the Civil War; after the Restoration of Charles II, the Puritans underwent sever persecution and he himself was imprisoned twice for his preaching, once for twelve years. It was during his second and shorter term that he wrote Part I of his masterpiece—The Pilgrim’s Progress. • He had little schooling.
Part 4 John Bunyan’s literary contribution and style
• 1. a master of allegory and parable & a chief puritan writer. • 2. Bunyan’s prose is admirable. It is popular speech ennobled by the solemn dignity and simplicity of the language of the English Bible.
Part 2: Bunyan's works
1. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinner
《罪人受恩记》《功德无量》
2. The Pilgrim’s Progress ☆
《天路历程》
3. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman 《恶人先生的生平和死亡》
4.Symbolism is another feature in The Pilgrim’s Progress.
Life → a hard pilgrimage
Man → the pilgrim Man’s pursuit of eternal happiness without worldly troubles → the pilgrim’s holy pilgrimage
《贝德曼先生的一生》
4.The Holy War
《神圣战争》
Part 3 The Pilgrim’s Progress
The Pilgrim’s Progress is a prose allegory
Introduction
(a story in verse or prose in which abstract nouns are presented by persons and characters with the purpose of teaching some lesson ) depicting the pilgrimage of a human soul in search of salvation. It has two parts. The first part deals with Christian’s pilgrimage to the Celestial City, through which he realized his own salvation. The second part deals with his wife and children’s salvation through their pilgrimage.
John Bunyan 约翰· 班扬
(1628-1688)
Content
• • • • Part 1: Bunyan's life Part 2: Bunyan’s works Part 3: The Pilgrim’s Progress Part 4: John Bunyan’s literary contribution and style • Part 5: Question
Analysis 1: The Pilgrim’s Progress
…a man clothed with rags standing in a certain place, with his face from his own house, a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back. I looked, and saw him open the book, and read therein; and as he read, he wept and trembled; Christian and, not being able longer to contain, he brake out with a lamentable cry, 一个人穿着破烂的衣服, 站在一个地方,背对着自 saying, "What shall I do?" 己的房舍,受礼拿着一本书,背上 负着一个沉重的包袱。我正看着，只见他打开书本一边阅读， 一边流泪，全身颤抖，后来情不自禁地伤心起来：“我应该做 点什么？” the worldly troubles the Bible and worries
Part 5 Question:
What is the difference of literature between the Elizabethan age and the revolution period?
• 2) Elizabethan literature was generally inspiring. It throbbed with youth and hope and vitality. Literature in the Puritan Age expressed age and sadness. Even its brightest hours were followed by gloom and pessimism. • 3) Elizabethan literature was intensely romantic. The romantic spirit sprang from the heart of youth. People believed all things, even the impossible. But in literature of the Puritan period; we can not find any romantic ardor.
Analysis 2: The Pilgrim’s Progress
1. The traveler’s name is Christian, and he represents evBaidu Nhomakorabeary Christian in human world. 2.The figures and places Christian encounters on his journey stand for the various experiences every Christian must go through in the quest for salvation.
3. The religious book also gives a faithful picture of the English society in Bunyan’s age, added here and there with bitter satires upon the ruling classes. In the sense of religion it is a Protestant study which highly praises the doctrine of Protestantism —salvation. In the story Bunyan gives us not only a symbolic picture of London at the time of the Restoration but also a comprehensive satirical picture of the English society and the legal procedure in England in Bunyan’s day.
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Analysis 3: about the excerpt
• “Vanity Fair” is a remarkable passage. • It is an epitome of the English society after the Restoration. • Everything can be sold or bought in this fair and the persecution of Christian and Faithful is described. • William Makepeace Thackeray and his Vanity Fair.