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Allegory is defined in Encyclopaedia Britannica as "a symbolic fictional narrative that conveys a meaning not explicitly set forth in the narrative. Allegory, which encompasses such forms as fable, parable, and apologue, may have meaning on two or more levels that the reader can understand only through an interpretive process" ("Allegory").
Jeremy Tambling in his book Allegory, stresses the different understandings of the term in the history of literary criticism and highlights, that despite the use of puns and ambiguous language in allegorical works, in modern literature, we usually consider it as an embodiment of abstract ideas and covering very serious topics (Tambling 2).
"A 20th-century example of political allegory is George Orwell's novel Animal Farm (1945), which, under the guise of a fable about domestic animals, expresses the author’s disillusionment with the outcome of the Bolshevik Revolution and shows how one tyrannical system of government in Russia was replaced by another" ("Allegory").
Other examples from early texts may be John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress or Dante's Divine Comedy.
Allegorical aspects can also be found in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. We can also find them in many films, such as The Matrix.
The following passage from The Matrix can be considered as an allegory (and also allusion) to Plato's "Cave allegory"
if you are not familiar with the Plato's allegory of the cave, you can watch it here in one of the Dick Oden's animations narrated by Orson Welles from 1973:
Plato - The Allegory of the Cave
Works Cited:
“Allegory.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 10 Apr. 2017, www.britannica.com/art/allegory-art-and-literature.
Furtado, Fabio."Allegory of the Cave - The Matrix Scenes." Youtube, 28 Oct 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRMSGSbExwg.
Tambling, Jeremy. Allegory. Routledge, 2010.
Weiss, Sam. The Cave: a parable told by Orson Welles. Churchill Films, 1973.
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