A Comparison of Pilgrimage to West and Pilgrim’s Progress

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10.2991/emcm-15.2016.98How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Pilgrim's Progress; Pilgrimage to West; Comparison; Religious spirit; Criticism of the reality

Abstract

Pilgrim's Progress in the form of dream design and describes the human in the life journey of the path to heaven.Pilgrimage to West also describes the four person to hardships to India to obtain buddhist scriptures.In this paper, the author comparative analysis of Pilgrim's Progress and Pilgrimage to West and found that both of them used the religious pilgrimage narrative mode, describes the fable characters of atonement experience, promote the spirit of redemption religious doctrine, reveal the social reality of sin. Pilgrim's Progress reveals the thought of the Christian faith and soul redemption, Pilgrimage to West interprets the religious idea of heart Self-enlightenment. This paper attempts to through Pilgrim's Progress and Pilgrimage to West of the religious characteristics and reality of critical comparative analysis and to reveals the vital function of religion in people's life at that time. So as to deepen readers’ understanding of these two perfect masterpieces.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Lingling Xiao
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BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Electronics, Mechanics, Culture and Medicine
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