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The names in Pilgrim's Progress are more than just archetype names, they're moral names intended to get across the role the character plays in the extended metaphor that is the book.
In fairy tales, the names tend to be neutral, or at most descriptive, like Beauty and the Beast, or Prince Charming. Fairy tales may teach a lesson, but it's much more discrete than PP is (which in my opinion hits you over the head, and points to the moral written in 108 pt type with flashing lights around it), and the moral may be ambiguous. The characters in fairy tales invite you to identify with them (and this identification may be gender-neutral, as in the youngest son who identifies with Cinderella, in a "you may be mean to me now, but you'll get yours someday" kind of thing.)
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