Examples of Allegory
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Own example:
As the Lion prowled through the land his head raised high in a mighty posture as his eyes scanned the animals around him backing away from him in a respectful manner. The animals looked at the powerful Lion in awe and respect but with a little bit of fear. But there was one animal that looked at the Lion with hatred and scorn, The Black Mamba, The Black Mamba hated the Lion's power over him and The Black Mamba thought that he should have been the one that was ruling and everyone was looking at him like that. The Black Mamba was deadlier and more graceful than the Lion but still the Lion was the on that everyone looked up to and everyone spat on and kicked at The Black Mamba. Driven by rage The Black Mamba hide in the tall dry grass and slithered silently and gracefully towards the prideful Lion. When The Black Mamba was in front of the Lion the snake drew back lifting half of his body off of the ground, baring his fangs he strike at the Lion but he seen the snake in front of him. Before The Black Mamba sunk his fangs into the Lion, the Lion swatted at the snake landing a heavy blow on the snakes neck killing it in an instant. Everyone cheered that the hateful snake was dead and they could live their lives in peace and not in fear of The Black Mamba's wrath. This is explaining that The Black Mamba (Satan or the Devil) hates the Lion (God) and he tried to overtake him but the Lion defeated the snake and brought peace to everyone that was living in fear of the snake. |
Animal Farm:
"But is this simply part of the order of nature? Is it because this land of ours is so poor that it cannot afford a decent life to those who dwell upon it? No, comrades, a thousand times no! The soil of England is fertile, its climate is good, it is capable of affording food in abundance to an enormously greater number of animals than now inhabit it. This single farm of ours would support a dozen horses, twenty cows, hundreds of sheep--and all of them living in a comfort and a dignity that are now almost beyond our imagining. Why then do we continue in this miserable condition? Because nearly the whole of the produce of our labor is stolen from us by human beings. There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word--Man. Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever." This is part of Old Major's dream that all of the animals are free and lives happily on their own by chasing out the Humans and not enslaved by Man. Old Major represents Karl Marx, who is one of the most famous philosopher and political theorists in the history of the Western world. |
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia):
"Aslan?" said Mr. Beaver. "Why, don't you know? He's the King. He's the Lord of the whole wood, but not often here, you understand. Never in my time or my father's time. But the word has reached us that he has come back. He is in Narnia at this moment. He'll settle the White Queen all right. It is he, not you, that will save Mr. Tumnus." "Is—is he a man?" asked Lucy. "Aslan a man!" Mr. Beaver said sternly. "Certainly not. I tell you he is the King of the wood and the son of the great Emperor-Beyond-the-Sea. Don't you know who is the King of Beasts? Aslan is a lion--the Lion, the great Lion." "Ooh!" said Susan, "I'd thought he was a man. Is he—quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion." "That you will, dearie, and no mistake," said Mrs. Beaver; "if there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most or else just silly." In this part they are describing Aslan as a god like figure because of his longevity, immense power, and benevolence. When Mr. Beaver said that we should not be afraid of Aslan the author, Lewis, is relating Aslan to Christ- who Aslan actions are similar to Christ's- and wants us to look at both of them in awe and trust. |
Biography
George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair born on June 25, 1903 in Motihari, India and the Son of a British civil servant. After spending his first year in India his Mother brought him and his older sister, Marjorie, to England. His first literary successes at the age of 11 when he had his poem published in the local newspaper. Orwell was sent to boarding school where he didn't get along with his peers and spent most of his time alone. Later he won scholarships to Wellington College and Eton College to continue his studies. Finishing his studies at Eton Orwell joined the India Imperial Police Force in 1922 and after five years he returned to England with an intent of becoming a writer. Writing his first major work "Down and Out in Paris and London" (1933) and "Burmese Days" (1934). Meeting Eileen O'Shaughnessy they fell in love and got married in 1936. For years Orwell had periods of sickness, and was officially diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1938. Orwell wrote "Animal Farm" (1945) and "Nineteen Eighty-Four" (1949) and were published more towards the end of his life. Shortly after this Orwell died on January 21, 1950 in a London hospital. |
C.S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis was born on November 29, 1898 in Belfast, Ireland. His mother died when Lewis was ten years old and he went to receive his pre-college education from boarding schools and from a tutor. After a while Lewis was sent to sever with the English army before being sent back home soon after being wounded from a shrapnel. Lewis graduated from Oxford University and soon after Lewis begun to write and publish his books, "Dymer" (1926), "The Allegory of Love" (1936), and "Out of the Silent Planet". The Chronicles of Narnia was written in the 1950s with a set of seven books in all the fist one published in 1950. Lewis soon became a literature professor in 1954 he met Joy Gresham and married her in 1956. Not soon after that Gresham died of cancer in 1960 and Lewis wrote "A Grief Observed" as he grieved deeply for his wife. Three years after this Lewis has died on November 22, 1963 in Headington, Oxford. |
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