The Journey
The Pilgrim's Progress is an all-allegory turducken. This book is composed of allegory… and allegory inside allegory. And holding all of this allegory together is the larger allegory of the liter...
The Burden
We will never complain about lugging around a heavy backpack again. Compared to a typical satchel, Christian is essentially lugging around a VW Bus on his back.In our first image of Christian in th...
The House of the Interpreter
The House of the Interpreter is sort of like school for Christian. "The Interpreter" who lives there takes him from room to room, showing the new pilgrim images representing Christian principles. Y...
Landscape
In our everyday speech, we constantly use metaphors of space, distance, and landscape to describe other things: how we're feeling, our progress in our work, or how we look at the world: "I seem to...
Vanity Fair
Not the magazine. Or the novel. Or the movie adaptation of the novel. We're talking here about the original Vanity Fair, the allegory that these and many other cultural productions are referencing....