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Allegory - Term Papers

Allegory

, pronounced AL uh gawr ee, is a story with more than one meaning.
Most allegories have moral or religious meanings. Famous allegories
include the fables attributed to Aesop, an ancient Greek writer. Aesop's
fables seem to describe the adventures of animals and human beings. But
the author actually wanted to teach his readers something about human
nature.

One of Aesop's best-known fables is "The Fox and the Grapes." On its
surface, or its literal level of meaning, the story tells of a fox who
wants a bunch of grapes hanging above his head. The fox tries desperately
to reach the grapes but cannot. He finally gives up, saying that the
grapes are probably sour anyway. The allegorical ...

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and The Faerie Queene, written by
the English poet Edmund Spenser in the late 1500's.

Allegories lost popularity in Europe after about 1600, but some, such as
Pilgrim's Progress (1678, 1684) gained recognition in later times.
Allegory also exists in other ways. Many novels include allegorical
suggestions of an additional level of meaning. Examples include Moby-Dick
(1851), a whaling adventure that raises issues of human struggle and fate
in a mysterious universe, and Lord of the Flies (1954), a story about
shipwrecked boys that examines the persistence of evil.

Contributor: Paul Strohm

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Added: 11/14/2008 03:10:40 AM
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