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Westrate, however, is less concerned with the allegorical meaning of this battle than with the interpersonal dynamics of the combatants.

What about the film’s allegorical nature?

It is a symbol of freedom through French history and represents allegorical figures of the French republic.

The sculptures’ significance was allegorical as well as architectural: Department stores, though erected mostly by men, have always been feminine domains.

I was straddling a wafer-thin allegorical fence: The young man my parents wanted me to be versus who I was becoming.