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Comparison of John Bunyan and John Milton (Themes of the Progress of Pilgrims and Paradise Lost) The English poet John Milton introduced Paradise Lost in an epic way which consisted with over ten thousand lines. After eleven years of Milton, John Bunyan introduced a popular religious Christian allegory called “the pilgrims progress. There is no greater difference in their themes. It was considered to be the most important literature work of all time. Writing differences;  John Bunyan wrote the prose in a simple and concise language, used strong, plain and purely English word in his writing, a person who has read the Bible cannot easily understand. Therefore, it is the important reason that people enjoyed the language of Bunyan over Milton’s Language.  Milton wrote in complicated and original poetic style. Milton’s aim was writing to enlighten the tragic repercussions of the sin in one’s life. Themes difference (comparison)  Bunyan’s Theme was very practical and easily understood, in pilgrim’s progress he covered the knowledge by telling the story of Christian, who have not read the Bible.  Paradise Lost he analyzed a formal, tragic and Philosophical judgment of the temptation of Adam and Eve Milton’s Theme was complex and tragic, cannot easily understood, in, and Satan as an anti-hero.  In pilgrim’s progress Bunyan evaluated the relationship between men to God. He told the men’s behavior with God, and criticized that how can men forget God?  On the other hand, In Paradise Lost, Milton described the relationship God to Men that God is very generous to all men and criticized the character of Satan how evil can be so easy to fall into without knowing it?

Literary themes of Paradise lost and the Progress of Pilgrims  The meaninglessness of possessions insignificance of material things; "human kind’s struggles"; “the danger of vanity;” “The Temptation of the sin” Satan vs. Man; Human fall and salvation God vs. Satan In Paradise lost, Milton’s most important theme; the man’s first Disobedience, covered extremely abstract and intellectual ideas such as hierarchical nature of the universe that universe divided into hierarchical structure with God literally sitting on a throne on top and hell on the bottom as far away God as possible. On the other hand, one of the most obvious theme in The Pilgrim’s Progress is that of the Christian’s temporal journey, factor is knowledge. Christians learned from his experiences. His pilgrim has spirituality. The most obvious themes are;  The role of fear in faith  Liberation Conclusion: We see in the themes of Pilgrim’s Progress and Paradise Lost, Satan vs. Man and God vs. Satan. We considered Paradise Lost a literary masterpiece in comparison to the Pilgrim’s Progress. The allegory of John Bunyan was one of the famous worked in history, in comparison to Milton’s epic poem. The most

popular difference in their language. Bunyan’s language people of 17 th century can easily understood, than the language of Milton, his language was very complex. Therefore, we can say that easily both have very complex themes which common people cannot easily understand. The most important difference in their themes that Milton said that God punished Man because of their mistakes. Bunyan told the wrong behavior with God.