| With its emphasis on personification and topical allusion, allegory has a long association with political discourse. |
| Some people sneer at a metaphorical reading of scripture and Tolkien himself was opposed to allegory as a rhetorical form. |
| For those who don't know, the story is a futuristic allegory of the Arab Revolt familiar to most through the film Lawrence of Arabia. |
| It is an allegory for our own society, our own people and it should be immediately recognizable to any member of the audience. |
| Such an interpretation, inevitably allegorical, must take allegory seriously, as a mode of both representation and interpretation. |
| As I understand it, this isn't allegory, but literal truth, a prophecy that will someday be realised. |
