ENGB35H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Chisel
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Playing pilgrims : pilgrim"s progress provides the moral structure for the book, an allegory in which the pilgrim, christian, takes up his burden, leaves his wife and family, and sets off for the celestial city i. e. , heaven places he visits represent spiritual challenges, e. g. , burdens (4) echoes christian"s burden, beth finds the palace beautiful (6, amy"s valley of humiliation (7, jo meets apollyon (8, little faithful (17) Meg goes to vanity fair (9: pleasant meadows (22, but not straightforward puritan literature, sin social , cf. etymology of moral : classical latin m r lis concerned with ethics, moral < m r , m s custom (plural m r s habits, morals (compare mores n. ), beth is not an angel but a very human little girl , the march sisters are the first naughty" children allowed to survive and prosper in american children"s literature (ruth macdonald)
