'The Wilderness of this World': John Bunyan and the State of Nature

• Published in: Bunyan studies no. 12; p. 22
• Main Author: Sim, Stuart
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.2006
• Subjects: British & Irish literature; Bunyan, John (1628-1688); Bunyan, John (1628-88); English literature

Hobbes, for example, pictures us in deeply unflattering light as self-seeking individuals whose nature has to be ruthlessly policed by an absolute authority if we are to have any personal security at all in our lives: his state of nature being the infamous one of a 'nasty, brutish, and short�...