Line #12 YMMV/ThePilgrimsProgress


1	* {{Anvilicious}}: Very and deliberately so, and actually the reason it became popular: its Christian message is so anvilicious that the [[MoralGuardians Puritans]] approved of it, deeming it almost as suitable for reading on Sundays as the Bible itself.
2	* DesignatedEvil:
3	** One of the characters Christian comes across is Ignorance; a pleasant, friendly young man who tries to get into the Celestial City by doing good works and living his life according to Jesus' example, rather than simply through faith. He gets thrown into Hell for his arrogance.
4	** One of the "evil" characters is named Talkative. ''Talkative''. After all the other NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast, his seems enormously anticlimactic.
5	** On the other hand, from a religious viewpoint, these are the more pernicious villains. People who genuinely don't understand the need for faith and forgiveness as well as people who say good things and talk about good works without actually doing anything about either. It's easy to not be a genuinely horrible person. It's much harder to avoid these lesser problems.
6	* MisaimedFandom: Of a more InsultBackfire type of way. Muckraker in the book is a character who is so obsessed with cleaning up mud on the ground that he fails to notice a golden crown above him. Journalists in the early 20th century who investigated big corporations were dubbed "muckrakers" as an insult, but it eventually turned into a positive term thanks to UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt's speech "[[http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/teddyrooseveltmuckrake.htm The Man With the Muck-Rake]]", which notes the irony of the nickname. There's also the magazine company "Vanity Fair". If they took the name from Pilgrim's Progress (or were aware of the book when they chose the name), they either don't know the book, forgot or disregarded that the Vanity Fair in the book is a CrapsaccharineWorld.
7	** The magazine might well have been alluding to [[Literature/VanityFair Thackeray's novel]] rather than ''Pilgrim's Progress.''
8	* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome:
9	** Christian’s fight with Apollyon. It is the most iconic moment in the first part for a reason.
10	** The climax of the first part "So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side."
11	** Greatheart from the second part does so many of these, he might as well be a walking moment of awesome himself.
12	** The basic method of the final test. Repeat the miracle of Jesus and Peter walking on water to cross the moat into heaven. Simple. Believe truly and you can do it. But as a climax, each of the Pilgrims succeeds brilliantly.
13	* RetroactiveRecognition: In 2005, a [[DirectToVideo DTV]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqgvu9DplEs animated feature version]] of the story was made by Creator/ScottCawthon. Yes, '''''[[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys THAT]]''''' Scott Cawthon.
14	** Creator/LiamNeeson's film debut was in the 1979 Ken Anderson film (where he played the Evangelist and Jesus Christ), and appeared in the 1979 sequel ''Christiana'' (which was Part Two) as Greatheart.
15	* ValuesDissonance: There is some, especially to modern readers due to the increasing secularization of society.
16	** "Abandon your wife and children" isn't generally considered acceptable even as an allegory these days.
17	** Also, Ignorance's fate can come off as unnecessarily harsh and arbitrary. ("Look, sorry, you really need to go back and follow the proper path. You've done nothing wrong, so we'll hold a spot for you.")
18	*** That being said, by the time he's thrown into hell, he's already crossed the river and thus the Point of No Return. There is no going back from there.
19	** In the second part, all four of Christiana's sons get married within a span of a few pages despite having no romance arcs with any of their wives. To modern viewers, this would seem like an extreme case of StrangledByTheRedString. In the 17th Century, getting married and having a family is seen as more important than experiencing romance, and people in those days usually get married ''before'' they fall in love with their spouses, rather than the other way around.
20	* ValuesResonance: One reason the book is still respected though, even by non-Christians, is because quite a few sections have aged ''very'' well.
21	** Talkative feels less like a DesignatedEvil when you realize he represents those who talk a lot about doing good things, but never actually does them, something that has become prevalent in the age of social media. He's also a well-spoken, affable man in public--but an [[DomesticAbuse abusive]] JerkAss at home (described as "A saint abroad, a devil at home"), the kind of person many modern readers would recognize or even know all too well.
22	** Perhaps the best example is in the second part of Pilgrim's Progress; the story of Christian's wife and children has them take up arms and help people including the mentally-challenged. This affirms that God is available for all and women, children and the mentally challenged can be brave pilgrims as well. This was written in the 17th century, when society had values such as throwing the mentally challenged in a BedlamHouse, and most women were expected to StayInTheKitchen or make babies.
23	** Furthermore, in both Parts, Christians come from all walks of life, and from all sorts of backgrounds; a majority actually tend to have roots in bad places with evil reputations. But what matters is the lives they live, not who their families were or where their hometown was.

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