the death which are the essence of Sir Gawain, nor do we find Bunyan's transparent and often heavy-handed Christian propaganda, designed to convince the reader of the truth of the Bible.
With respect to the latter, only in the abstract could Bunyan's religious quest be considered accurate. That is, if we see Bunyan's Christian quest as a symbol of all such religious quests, be they Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic or Christian. Certainly an open-hearted reader would grant that the quest of Siddhartha, for example, is just as profound as the quest of Bunyan. However, it is unlikely that Bunyan would accept such an ecumenical interpretation.
Bunyan would not, in other words, say that every religious or spiritual quest is comparable. He would say that Jesus Christ and the Bible are the only answers to life and death, and that all others are inaccur
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