Category: Allegory

Table of Contents Introduction Historical Background Feminist Perspective Painting as Allegory Caravaggios Influence Inspiration and Legacy Conclusion References Introduction In the patriarchal society of the 17th century, art like many other fields was dominated by men. History does not present many examples of female artists, but in 1970, an Italian woman by the name of…

Green Book is a film that presents the relationship between two real-life people: Donald Shirley and Tony Vallelonga. The film perfectly highlights the theme of racism and discrimination in the early 20th century by drawing the picture of a classical piano prodigy (Chow). Despite the virtuosic techniques of the main character, the prejudices and neglect…

In the allegorical novel, Lord of The Flies, author William Golding explores the essence of human nature in its purest form. From a group of stranded boys on an island to create an inner ‘beast’, Golding writes a story about the inevitable deterioration of order and civility when evil arises in mankind. Golding reveals harsh…

The short stories can be comprehended as the modern-day written version of tales rendering the folktales that are mostly written with many moral insights and cultural values. Allan H. Pasco, a distinguished professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature, defines a short story as short, literary prose fiction, open to any topic or material, but the deciding factor…

You can’t tell any quite a story while not having some kind of a subject matter, one thing to mention between the lines(Robert Wise). a subject matter is that the message or messages Associate in Nursing author is making an attempt to convey by incorporating them into their writing. Theme plays a very necessary role…

In the modern context, the concept of old and new money is difficult for an average reader to understand. With a massive influx into the ranks of the hyper-rich by those who have gained their wealth through means like the Internet, values and perceptions of these concepts have drastically changed. Today’s culture among developed nations…

I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself. The preceding quote is an excerpt from Franz Kafkas The Metamorphosis which is a novella about Gregor, a salesman, who unexpectedly turns into a huge, unidentified insect one morning. The Metamorphosis is an…

An allegory is a form of writing usually a story or a description in which the pressure, the places, the objects, and the events have meaning and implications beyond the literary meanings. Lord of the flies has political, religious, and psychological allegory. Political allegory: Political allegory is a method that is used to satirize political…

Lord of the Flies As An Allegory If read from the surface level, Lord of the Flies can be interpreted as a novel about the struggle to survive on a deserted island and the effects it has on its residents. When the reader looks in depth, they see an allegorical novel that has an underlying…

Writing about this topic I have to first focus on two things so my explanation of allegories that are present in Lord of the Flies can be received clearly. Firstly, the book was written in a way that establishes the ground for an enormous amount of allegories, and I will go into the depth of…