Sir Trevisan flees from this character, who sits in a cave beside a corpse wallowing in its own “lukewarm blood.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this character who nearly convinces the Redcrosse Knight to kill himself.
ANSWER: Despair
[10e] Despair and the Redcrosse Knight appear in this epic by Edmund Spenser.
ANSWER: The Faerie Queene
[10m] A giant named Despair tries to convince the protagonist of this novel to kill himself. The protagonist of this novel also falls into a bog called the Slough of Despond.
ANSWER: The Pilgrim’s Progress [or The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come] (by John Bunyan)
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