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An allegory is a work that's designed to be a metaphor for something else. Just about every character is meant to be a representation of some group or concept, and their interactions in the work are meant to convey ideas about how these groups/concepts affect each other in real life. The story may say "Alice and Bob had tea together", but in actuality, Alice represents Capitalism, Bob represents Communism, and the "tea" is actually a meeting of the UN. Expect Rule of Symbolism to come into play in these stories. Perhaps the most famous example is Pilgrim's Progress, a Christian allegory in which the protagonist (named Christian) leaves his old life to go on a journey to the Celestial City, overcoming many obstacles along the way. Not all allegories are this heavy-handed, however - some are very subtle, to the point where you don't even realize the story is an allegory until someone points it out to you. This is why so many readers get to thinking that Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory. Several artworks are allegories, with most (or all) of the characters being Anthropomorphic Personifications of abstract concepts. They are known as allegorical paintings/sculptures. |
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Lord of the Flies for war and its causes, the island acting as a microcosm for the World at the time. | |
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The SparkShort Float is about a father discovering that his son has the ability to fly and his struggle to accept it because of how different it makes his son from other children. Bobby Alcid Rubio created the short as a metaphor for his struggle to come to terms with his son's autism diagnosis. | |
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Ostrov, an animated short film by Fyodor Khitruk, features a man stranded on a "Far Side" Island who is at first ignored, and later exploited, by everyone who passes by, none of whom bother to help him out. When there's nothing left of the island but the cap of a tapped-out oil well, another castaway floating by on a branch offers to help the man get off the island. It represents how the underpriveleged and alienated often have no one to rely on but each other. | |
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Hypocrites is a film about, well, hypocrisy, and how easy it is to be a hypocrite and ignore the truth, as shown by a pastor attempting to lead his flock to Truth. The "narrow way" to Truth is an actual narrow way that leads up a very steep mountain, while the "broad road" that leads away from Truth is, yes, an actual broad road. One parishioner is too greedy to find the way to Truth, which is shown by him carrying a bag of gold coins that bursts open. After nobody makes it up to the mountain with the pastor, he liberates a figure called the Naked Truth—played by a nude actress—to bring the Truth to them. | |
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Balance is about five men precariously perched on a platform that is balanced precariously at the center. It's an obvious message about the need for cooperation and the danger of selfishness. | |
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Scott Pilgrim is one big allegory for growing up, taking responsibility for your mistakes, and learning something from them instead of pretending they never happened. | |
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The Divine Comedy's trip through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven is also a trip through a life of sin, repentance, and joy. | |
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Igra uses two children drawing pictures that animate and fight each other as an allegory for an Escalating War that ends in nuclear holocaust. It ends with the boy drawing a missile that launches and detonates over the girl's drawing of a house, after which the boy accidentally knocks over an ink bottle. The ink spills over the drawings, symbolizing the end of the world. | |
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The human to merman metamorphosis of Cody Griffin in The Thirteenth Year could be a metaphor for pre-teen puberty. | |
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In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Eustace's transformation back from a dragon, and subsequent reform of character, is an allegory for the conversion of St. Paul. | |
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The Garage: A Russian film in which a meeting of a parking garage co-operative dissolves into anger, backstabbing, and chaos after it's revealed that four of the members of the co-op will lose their parking spaces in the garage. The whole thing is an obvious satirical metaphor for the malaise of the Soviet Union in the late communist era. A high-handed and undemocratic government (the co-op board), corruption, nepotism, backstabbing, selfishness. | |
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Book XIII of Augustine's Confessions rereads the Book of Genesis as a figurative tellingnote not that Augustine denies Genesis's claim that God created the universe and man of how God saved man from the abyss of sin through His light. | |
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Turning Red: The giant red panda transformation is an allegory for female puberty. | |
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In The Adventures of Caterpillar Jones, C.J.'s quest to become a butterfly and the characters he encounters, particularly the Great Owl and E. Phil Snake, are meant as a religious allegory. | |
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Pilgrim's Progress - For the process of converting to Christianity | |
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Animal Farm - Animals oust the human farmer and take over the running of the farm, as an allegory for the rise and corruption of Communism in the USSR. The book is often used by high schools to teach students how allegory works. | |
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The more proper allegory written by C. S. Lewis is The Pilgrim's Regress, dramatizing his intellectual conversion to Christianity and an Author Tract for his love for Romanticism. An obvious allusion to Bunyan in the title. | |
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Some Star Trek movies are allegorical of contemporary sociopolitical issues: Star Trek V: The Final Frontier is about religion, specifically televangelism, which was a hot issue in the US at the time it was filmed. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country begins with an ecological catastrophe that destabilizes the Klingon Empire, forcing them to make peace with the Federation in a manner reminiscent of the Chernobyl disaster and glasnost (it unintentionally also predicted the Cold War ending, which happened shortly after the film's release). |
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Hyperdimension Neptunia is an allegory for the Console Wars, with the consoles personified as Moe Anthropomorphisms, and one of the villains representing Digital Piracy Is Evil. A non-canon bad ending of Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2 is a metaphor of the effects of a monopoly effects on the videogame industry and how it would eventually lead it to crumble, and the back-story of one of the characters in Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory is an allegory for The Great Video Game Crash of 1983. Most of the time it can be taken as a comedy with loads of references and in jokes related to gaming. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series started the franchise's tradition of using its Science Fiction setting to examine contentious real-world issues through allegory in a way other shows could not. One of the most famous (and obvious) examples is Let That Be Your Last Battlefield, about the destructive Fantastic Racism between two alien races, both alike apart from a superficial difference in skin pattern. As this episode came at a time when the Civil Rights Movement was in full swing, it's not hard to guess what viewpoint it is meant to censure. | |
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Bear Story is about a bear who is forcibly kidnapped from his family and enslaved to a circus. The whole cartoon is an allegory for how families were separated from each other by the kidnappings and disappearances perpetrated in Chile by the dictatorial regime of Augusto Pinochet. The bear is inspired by the story of the director's grandfather, who was snatched away from his family and eventually exiled. | |
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The Last Battle is an almost 1:1 retelling of the Second Coming, complete with a false Aslan and his "prophet", a massive war, and everyone going to heaven at the end. | |
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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier is about religion, specifically televangelism, which was a hot issue in the US at the time it was filmed. | |
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The Ascent (1977), about two Russian soldiers during World War II who get captured by the Germans, turns into an allegory about Christ and Judas. One of the soldiers dies nobly, sacrificing himself on the gallows as a beatific light shines down on him. The other elects to join Those Wacky Nazis and ends the film a hollow wreck of a man. This is made overt when the collaborator is even called "Judas" by the villagers after he helped lead his old friend to execution. | |
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The Chronicles of Narnia is widely known as heavy-handed Christian allegory, but it's actually averted — Aslan is not an allegory for Jesus, He literally is Jesus. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe re-enacts the crucifixion story with Jadis the White Witch as Satan, Aslan as Jesus (of course), and Edmund as the unsaved sinner in need of redemption. Lucy and Susan also fill in for the Marys who attend Christ's death and burial. In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Eustace's transformation back from a dragon, and subsequent reform of character, is an allegory for the conversion of St. Paul. The Last Battle is an almost 1:1 retelling of the Second Coming, complete with a false Aslan and his "prophet", a massive war, and everyone going to heaven at the end. The more proper allegory written by C. S. Lewis is The Pilgrim's Regress, dramatizing his intellectual conversion to Christianity and an Author Tract for his love for Romanticism. An obvious allusion to Bunyan in the title. |
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Parable is a short film in which the ministry and suffering of Jesus is symbolized by a clown arriving at a circus. | |
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The 1954 film Godzilla (1954) was made as an allegory about the horrors of the atomic bomb. | |
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Battle Royale is considered an allegory about humans (not just teens) and what they're willing to do in order to survive. | |
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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country begins with an ecological catastrophe that destabilizes the Klingon Empire, forcing them to make peace with the Federation in a manner reminiscent of the Chernobyl disaster and glasnost (it unintentionally also predicted the Cold War ending, which happened shortly after the film's release). | |
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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe re-enacts the crucifixion story with Jadis the White Witch as Satan, Aslan as Jesus (of course), and Edmund as the unsaved sinner in need of redemption. Lucy and Susan also fill in for the Marys who attend Christ's death and burial. | |
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Wander over Yonder: Season 2's Myth Arc as a whole serves as one, according to an official blog post. The struggles the gang faces now that Lord Dominator has stepped up to the plate is a story about how cartoons have developed over the years, and how silly, comedic, and formulaic shows (represented by Wander and Hater's adventures and interactions) stack up against the more serious, story driven works cartoons have transformed into (represented by Dominator). And in the end, they're trying to show that, as much as those kinds of works deserve their merit, there is a place for the silliness somewhere. | |
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In Season 2 of Within the Wires, which deals with the analysis of fictional art, this is Discussed In-Universe. Claudia Atieno's painting "Still Life with Orchid" was meant to communicate the unknowable, cyclical nature of existence through Life/Death Juxtaposition: a living orchid with dead leaves and oranges with subtly rotting undersides. But much to her displeasure, most viewers read it as a fatalistic commentary on death's inevitability. | |
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Economy Watch: Several allegories are present throughout the series. The economy, for example, represents a variety of concepts - it represents the balance and structure of the universe, and David feels as though it's his responsibility to study and watch it. David's obsession with the economy can be seen as a metaphor for obsession with religion and the belief of a higher power, which causes him to question his existence in "It's An Economic Snowfall". His obsession with it could also be seen as a metaphor for depression and the need to find purpose in life. | |
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