Allegory

• An Allegory is a story, like a fable or a parable, with a hidden meaning, usually political or moral. The characters or objects personify a spiritual quality or an aspect of human nature.
• For example: George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ (1945), where the animals within the story represent Orwell’s disillusionment with the Bolshevik Revolution, as they behave more and more like the humans they have replaced, until at the end they come to stand on two legs.

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