The Celestial Railroad

"The Celestial Railroad" is short story written as an allegory by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. In it, Hawthorne parodies the seventeenth-century book The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, which portrays a Christian's spiritual "journey" through life. In this story, the pilgrim journeys by iron horse rather than by foot, the burden of sin that Bunyan portrays is pulled by the same train, and Bunyan's figure Evangelist, preaching a message of conversion, is replaced by a figure known as "Mr. Smooth-it-away." Hawthorne mostly wrote against the Unitarianism of his day, but some of his comments also indicate his dissatisfaction with Bunyan's religiously exclusive theology.^[1]

References

↑ Wood, Clifford A. "Teaching Hawthorne's "The Celestial Railroad." The English Journal 54.7 (1965): 601-605: 601.

External links

John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress

Literature	"The Celestial Railroad" The Enchanted Duplicator The Life and Death of Mr Badman The Land of Far-Beyond

Operas	The Pilgrim's Progress

Music	Symphony No. 5 (Vaughan Williams)

Films	Pilgrim's Progress: Journey to Heaven

Other	Mellor's Gardens Road with Cypress and Star Houghton House

Related	The Third Part of the Pilgrim's Progress Little Women The Pilgrim's Regress "Beves of Hamtoun" Four Upbuilding Discourses, 1843

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