his faith We learn this because the knight carries the bloody cross on his shield and armor This red cross is a reminder of the sacrifice of his lord Jesus Christ Spenser writes But on his brest a bloudie Crosse he bore So the knight is a good Christian Here the knight s mission shows us a good Christian s journey to be holy Lady Una Lady Una is the knight s companion on this journey She is pure kind and wise Spenser describes her as So pure an innocent as that same lambe The knight is going to her kingdom to save her parents from a fire-breathing dragon Here Lady Una is the symbol of truth and goodness She stands for true religion The journey of the lady and the knight symbolizes that a good person must be guided by truth or true religion Monster Error Spenser introduces evil through characters like the monster Error and the deceitful Archimago Error is an ugly creature that looks like half-woman and half-serpent This vile monster represents falsehood It means lies and false religious beliefs Error is A monster vile whom God and man does hate The Red Cross Knight's battle with Error is a fight against evil The fight is a symbolic struggle against the dangers of false religion and sin The monster s thousands of offspring are the followers of false religion Spenser suggests how lies and false can spread and cause harm When the knight finally defeats Error it shows that holiness and faith can win over evil Archimago Archimago is an evil magician sorcerer He tricks the knight and the lady to create a conflict between them Archimago represents hypocrisy and lies At first when he meets the Red Cross Knight and Lady Una he seems to be a pious man He tries to gain the knight s trust He seems to pray and repent even when walking And all the way he Archimago prayed as he went When alone Archimago summons calls bad spirits to deceive the knight He uses evil spirits to separate the knight and the lady This highlights that evil often hides behind a mask of goodness Religious Allegory Spenser s The Faerie Queene is an allegorical poem So the good and evil characters in this poem have symbolic significance All the good characters are symbols of the Protestant Church of England while all the evil characters are symbols of the Roman Catholic Church in Spenser s view Monster Error and Archimago are the lies and tricks of false religion Through his journey the knight learns that he needs truth Una and faith God to win against evil In conclusion Spenser presents the struggle between good and evil as a central theme in Book of The Faerie Queene Through Red Cross Knight s journey with Lady Una Spenser shows that a good Christian must fight sin lies and temptations We learn that truth faith and goodness can win over lies sin and evil