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Questions related to allegories, i.e. a type of text in which a metaphor is extended throughout the entire narrative. Examples include the cave allegory in Book VII of Plato's Republic, and Edmund Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queene, in which the several knights stand for different virtues.
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If Tolkien disliked allegory, why are there so many allegorical readings of The Lord of the ...
"The only perfectly consistent allegory is a real life; and the only
fully intelligible story is an allegory. … the more easily can those so
minded find allegory in it." …
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Is there any deeper significance to Lucy's thought of what if "men started going wild inside...
Lewis, a devoted Christian, had a long interest in moral relativism and the importance of "natural" morals. In fact, he wrote a text on the subject, called The Abolition of Man, which began with a cri …
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