allegory

an allegory on the theme of the passage from ignorance to knowledge.

Pilgrim's Progress is an allegory of the spiritual journey.

The blindfolded figure with scales is an allegory of justice.

that this bold metaphor is admirable, and the natural history of the stage has no occasion on a day of allegory and royal epithalamium to take exception at a dolphin who is son to a lion.

Spenser's continuation and divergence from the Arthurian romance tradition are discussed in order to clarify the dialectical equiponderant relationship between romance and allegory of the poem.

The novel is an allegory of the political situation in the country.

The fable serves as an allegory for human nature.

The painting is believed to be an allegory of love and loss.

The film uses an allegory to explore themes of power and corruption.

The allegory in the poem conveys a deeper message about life and death.

The allegory in the story is open to interpretation, with many possible meanings.

The allegory of the cave in Plato's Republic is a famous philosophical concept.