Allegory In Gulliver's Travels And Pilgrims Progress

Within the novels Gulliver’s Travels and Pilgrims Progress, we are presented with a high level of absurdity. Such examples include the fairy tale like worlds of small people and the names and cities based on personifications of different parts of a person’s personality. With these tales, there is a level of allegory used to critique the world around the writers such as using the absurd nature of the Lilliputians in Gulliver’s Travels to compare different conflicts and Pilgrims Progress with religion.
For Jonathan Swift, the idea of conflicts is constantly used within the Lilliputian society, with Gulliver simply reiterating what he saw in a serious town. This satire brings about how many in Swift’s current society viewed the conflicts of the

In this sense, added with the realism of Gulliver’s life before he went on his adventures, the reader is pulled in. It is a magical realism in which the main character and everything around them has sound and realistic logic, however it also harbors the fantastical through the use of the Lilliputians. This small detail, if turned into real to size humans, would have created a more realistic prose, but through using a more fantastical creature Swift can use them to more anecdotally compare real life scenarios to an absurd

However, it takes it more of a dream like state where people become more of caricatures of their real selves. It thus uses the idea of how the average man would travel on his own to become a Christian and enter heaven. In this sense, it is a realistic approach more so than Swift’s novel due to how realistic each character is. There is little fantastical happening in Pilgrim’s Progress outside of a few moments, and each person that Christian interacts with is based upon a person or difficulty the average middle-class Christian would come