Allegory

An educated explanation of Plato's Cave Journey Allegory.

This article offers a complete description of what makes an allegory, complete with poopular examples to ensure the text is easy to understand.

What is the allegory and how and why is it used in literature?

A discussion of the novel Season of Migration to the North as an allegory representing the nation of Sudan.

A description of some of the symbolism in the political allegory by Lewis Carrol, "Alice in Wonderland."

William Golding's Lord of the Flies is one of the best allegoric works of contemporary literature.

Significant characters in Lost take on roles that parallel Biblical archetypes. On occasion, they take on more than one, depending on plot necessity.

This article explains how Plato's Allegory of the Cave skillfully poses all the questions philosophy seeks to answer.

This article philosophically compares Plato's Allegory of the Cave and Darren Aronofsky's Pi.

Discussion of allegorical consciousness, religious allegory, and Rowlandson's captivity narrative.

Lyman Frank Baum's novel is like a Bible for beginners. It's yet another spiritual allegory, whether it was intended to be so or happened by serendipitous circumstance - possibly divine intervention.

A poem with some wordplay

A reflective overview of the adventure fantasy novel, Opoponax Dreams by Genieve Dawkins.

Yann Martel's latest novel mixes literary styles to create an allegory populated by the unforgettable Beatrice and Virgil while paying homage to great writers.

Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" is held as an ideal model of a moral allegory. The role of literary elements played in the story can be interpreted to mean reference to an alternate meaning.

When the first miniseries of "V" aired in 1983, most viewers took the aliens coming to Earth plot as an allegory for the Third Reich. But with a new "V" series on the horizon, it could be taken literally this time from an evolution of deeper thought...

A psychoanalytic view at prose and human/cultural behavior.

Exploration of allegories in the poetry of Catullus. Looks at links between his poetry and Rome

The Man with the Iron Heart is master of alternate history Harry Turtledove's latest foray into the genre. The Man with the Iron Heart is also an allegory for the Iraq War set in an alternate post World War II Germany.

This short is an experimental piece written for an assignment on Realist-style prose. It's a little too serious for my tastes now, but it serves as an allegorical venting of a year-long relationship with a girl who I never actually dated.

Many have made assumptions as to whom or what Baglioni stands for in the story. Burton R. Pollin gives two etymological possibilities: 'sbagliare'-to err; 'bagliare'-a flash of light (Nelson 557).

There are about 60 Parables in Jesus' teachings. The Synoptic Gospels contain about 30 of these stories. John's Gospel contains no parables but uses other figure

Although each book in the saga tells a marvelous tale of virtue, the first book is the most widely read. Book 1 extensively examinines holiness through perpetual allegory, vivid characters, and the rules of courtly love.

The bible at work in a great piece of literature.

In a word, humankind has been �beached' awaiting atomic inevitability in Stanley Kramer's adaptation of Nevil Shute's On The Beach. A richly allegorical story about man, machine and political fallout in the Atomic age.