Examples Of Allegory

An allegory means a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning. It can be a moral or political meaning. The Watsons Go To Birmingham, 1963, a historical fiction novel, by Christopher Paul Curtis is a story about the Watsons driving to Alabama and experienced a horrific bombing that took place at a Baptist church on 16th street. The Watsons are a good example of an allegory because the events in the story often seem symbolic of the events involving Civil Rights and the United States. The Watsons were just a typical family that arrived in Alabama to drop Byron off there. Then, they encountered a problem, which caused the character to change, much like America in the 1960s.

The way our culture has a tendency to view other individuals by there appearance will probably never change. In some way everyone has it set in his or her mind what makes a person "perfect". These characteristics include personal appearance, wealth and intelligence. We do not always get the chance to get to know a person, but rather make assumptions. Two poems, which reveal different perceptions of someone, include Richard Cory and The Barbie Doll.

In the novel, All The Light We Cannot See, the author, Anthony Doerr, uses allusion to convey how Marie-Laure (one of the main characters)  interprets the book 20,000 leagues under the sea. Since she is blind, Marie-Laure reads in braille and was given two significant things to help her adjust to her blindness; The book 20,000 leagues under the sea, and a handmade scale model of her town used for navigation. As she continues to read the book she learns that “Pages later, he [Captain Nemo] rammed a warship full of men, passing through its hull -- like a sailmaker’s needle through cloth (Doerr 445). This quote showcases how war is motivated. Captain Nemo was kind of an anti-hero in the sense that he killed huge sums of people, but the clear

Young Goodman Brown is a short narrative written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Just like many of his other works, the story is set in the 17th century Puritan New England, and the author primarily addresses the puritan beliefs at the time which state that humanity exists in a state of degradation and God holds some unconditional love to humans by giving them unmerited grace. “The author mainly focuses on underlying tensions within the puritan way of life” (Jaynes, 2006). He thus uses symbolism to showcase the story of Young Goodman Brown’s journey. The main character delves deep into self-scrutiny and ends up losing his beliefs and virtue.

Symbolism is something that represents something else. Like a flag. In 2BR02B It talks about “New Life” and how a painter knows what life is really like or about. And in the pedestrian it talks about how fighting is allowed and encouraged.

At Preston high school, it was like any other day, kids being bullied and drugs being used. This kind of stuff went on everyday inside of Preston High school, but this school was all they had in the town of Rapid City and the people got used to it. It was a more southern town, located in Alabama. Many words can describe what goes on there; hatred, abuse, and slacking. But the school is not all bad, as they had good people there, but the kind of people that were bullied. There was a girl named Jenna that was always a bully, because she was the popular girl, with the thought of being better than everyone else, especially with her amazing beauty and physique. Every day she bullied poor little Carlos. He never did anything wrong, but she was

One of Virgil's most famous works of literature, The Aeneid, greatly resembles and is even alluded to Homer's The Odyssey. An allusion is an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. Virgil uses allusions to The Odyssey to tell his story in many instances, reflecting the first six books to The Odyssey's first six books and the last six books of the Aeneid to the last six books for the Odyssey, with many corresponding events. One of these events that is found in The Odyssey with a similar story found in the Aeneid included two powerful women falling in love with the two heros, first from The Odyssey, Odysseus, and the other from The Aeneid, Aeneas. In The Odyssey, Calypso,

The well-known novella Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, written by Robert Louis Stevenson, describes a monster created by science. Dr. Jekyll concocts a potion in attempt to isolate the good and evil sides of human nature. When he drinks the concoction, he is transformed into a human with a beastly nature. He becomes all that we can imagine as evil and physically appears just as misshapen. In the narrative we find the ghastly appearance a symbol for something more.

Painted by Dutch painter Jan de Bray in 1668, A Couple Represented as Ulysses and Penelope’s literary allusions would be highly regarded when it was painted, and the understanding of such allusions is crucial to fully appreciating the piece. The title gives away that it is a double portrait of Ulysses and Penelope, a married couple who are principle figures in Homer’s The Odyssey. However, what the title does not allude to is the story that sparked the painting. The moment portrayed is the return of Ulysses to his wife, just before Penelope recognizes him; having fought in the Trojan War, his journey home was prolonged by adventure, hazards, and bad luck, and most people presumed he was dead.

Regardless of whether Baum was sympathetic to the Populists cause or not, his story reflects Populist views of the times too consistently to be coincidental. Several details of the story such as the Flying Monkeys, the Tin Man and the silver shoes are blatant reflections of several prominent societal issues at the time, and they often serve as allegories for the Populist views of these issues. The Tin Man is perhaps one of the most unmistakable allegories in this book. It represents Midwestern and Populists views of the time. The Tin man starts off as a normal, hardworking human man – (an allegory for a working class man, like the industrial workers in the Midwest).

We encounter allusions to myths in our daily lives and in literature. Some examples would include the names of the planets, cleaners, and so on. On a separate piece of paper, complete the following chart and add 1 allusions for each of the remaining letters of the alphabet. (You may need to get creative for some letters, like “x”!)

Haley Claiborne Mrs. Speights ENG1123 15 February 2016 Goodman Brown In “Young Goodman Brown”, Nathaniel Hawthorne expresses his view of sin as an allegory in which Young Goodman Brown is representative of the average person. Beginning at nightfall, the young Mr. Brown sets out on a journey to the woods. From the start, he is going against the wishes of his symbolic wife, Faith, yet is fully determined to go into the forest.

In the short story “Young Goodman Brown,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne there are many allegories. The allegory that I’m going to focus you in on, is how Hawthorne used Faith in the story. In the story Faith is the name of Goodman Brown’s wife. Throughout Goodman Brown’s journey through the forest he runs into a man who looks as if he is in the same social status as Goodman Brown. The man tells Goodman Brown that he is late. Goodman Brown’s response to the man is that, “Faith kept me back awhile” (Hawthorne 62). This is where we see one example of the allegory of Faith. We later learn the man he had just ran into was the devil, who has disguised himself in human form. Before Goodman Brown left his house, Faith his wife told him to not go on this journey

T.S Eliot’s The Hollow Men is a broad allegory for deliverance in a landscape reminiscent of purgatory. Eliot provides examples of allusion, imagery, and paradox to describe a fully realized apocalyptic scenario that affirms the hopelessness of a godless world.

One example of appearance versus reality would be Huck fakes his murder. “Well, last I pulled out some of my hair, and blooded the ax good, and stuck it on the back side, and slung the ax in the corner.” The appearance looks like somebody murdered Huck; However, Huck faked the whole act. Appearances can be deceiving. (Twain 42)