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Allegory. Allegory - Definition. Characters, Events, Settings or other details: Have both literal and symbolic meaning Represent abstract ideas or moral qualities Relationship between characters = relationships between ideas. Early Allegory – Pilgrim’s Progress.
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Allegory - Definition • Characters, Events, Settings or other details: • Have both literal and symbolic meaning • Represent abstract ideas or moral qualities • Relationship between characters = relationships between ideas
Early Allegory – Pilgrim’s Progress • Christian – Travels from City of Destruction to Celestial City • Meets: Pliable, Obstinate, Mr. Worldly Wiseman, Hypocrisy, Discretion, Prudence, Piety, Charity, Faithful, Vanity, Judge Hate-good, Flatterer… • Travels to: Slough of Despond, Village of Morality, Difficulty Hill, Valley of Humiliation, Valley of the Shadow of Death, Doubting Castle, Delectable Mountains…
Aesop’s Fables • Literary = Extended Metaphor • The Fox and The Crow
Visual Allegory • Look at the following painting carefully. • List as many of the elements as you can in the painting. • Once you have identified the different images, write what each image might represent allegorically
Still Life: An Allegory of the Vanities of Human Lifeby HarmenSteenwyck – c. 1640
By VincenteCollado Jr. c. 2003