allegory

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One could read the entire scripture — both the Old and New Testaments — as an allegory for humanity’s penchant for payback, and God’s many warnings against it.

From Salon • May 19, 2026

By presenting Satan's fall as a violent physical event instead of a purely spiritual allegory or optical illusion, Dante may have helped move Western thought toward the idea that celestial objects can directly reshape Earth.

From Science Daily • May 11, 2026

As comedy, the movie is feeble, and as allegory for the socioeconomically literate it is heavy-handed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

But the director, who wrote his adaptation in collaboration with Philippe Piazzo, also isn’t content with mere novelistic faithfulness to an author whose traces of colonial allegory in “The Stranger” have often been found problematic.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

The great hero of mythology, Hercules, might be an allegory of Greece herself.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton