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1、AComparativeStudyonTheJourneytotheWestandThePilgrim’sProgress1.IntroductionNecessarily,differentculturalcharacteristicsofnationalityderivefromvarietiesenvironment,lifestyle,tradition,faithandappreciation.However,culturesofdifferentnationalitieshavesomethingincommonforpeople’sthought,emotion,andbehav
2、ior.AsMr.MengZhaoyipoints:Humandevelopmentisatrendwhichbringsaboutatransnationalortrans-regionalcultureexchanges.Charactersofcultures,suchasdevelopment,synchronism,transmission,enculturationandbackwardnessmakeitprogresses.Thedevelopmentofcultureburststherestrainsofcommunication.Nowadays,wecannotfind
3、nothingwhereacultureisimpactedbyothers.Throughouttheworldhistoryliterature,thesufferingprocessesofbelieversisoneofthemainthemesofreligionworks,suchasThePilgrim’sProgressandTheJourneytotheWest.AbsolutelythewritingofthePilgrim’sProgressisbasedonChristianismparticularlyTheBible,whileTheJourneytotheWest
4、isbasedonBuddhism,ConfucianismandTaoism.Similarhistoricalcircumstanceandreligionatmospherecoincidentallymakethetwoauthorschoosereligionsubjectandtheformofimaginationtowritewhichmakestheworksacarrierofreligionideology,salvationconceptandpeople’sacknowledgmentandexplorationtotheothersideoftheworld.The
5、Pilgrim’sProgressishonoredas“aperfectworkofallegory”bywesterner,whiletheJourneytotheWestishonoredas“amedievallegendaryofChina”.Theyarewrittenaccordingtosocialmatters.Theycriticizeonsocialevils,greatlyshowthesenseofmissionsocialresponsibility.Thetwoworksdifferfromeachotherfortheirheroesaimstothejourn
6、ey,authors’attitudestowardrisingbusinessmenandwritingtechniques.Wecouldhaveabetterunderstandingofthetwoworksbyexploringtheirsimilaritiesanddifferences.2.Differencesofthetwonovels2.1DifferentimageryofnamesThefirstsectionofThePilgrim’sProgresstellsastoryinformofdreamwherethechristianknowstheruinofhome
7、townfromabook.Amancalled“preacher”warnshimofleavingforheaven.Thenhestartshisjourney.ThesecondsectionofthebooktellsastoryaboutChristian’swife,whosenameisWomanChristian,takingajourneytoheavenwithherchil
