The book “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” by C.S. Lewis, is a famous religious allegory. The lion Aslan is similar to Christ, and the character Edmund, who betrays Aslan, is a Judas figure. Allegory has been used throughout literature because it can allow authors to share difficult ideas and concepts in ways that are understandable or significant to the reader. Authors tell their stories on two different levels, a literal level and a figurative level. Allegory is a symbolic meaning used to reveal a moral truth in the story. Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”, used three examples of allegory-the locations within the house, the protagonist’s heart problem and an open window.
First, the two different locations used within the story represented two different feelings the main character Louise Mallard felt in the story. The story began downstairs were Louise is informed that her husband has been killed in a train accident. Her initial reactions are heartbroken and despair. “She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment.” [Pg. 181] Than Louise moves upstairs alone were a sense of freedom overcomes her. “But she saw beyond that bitter …show more content…
While she looked out the window she saw and heard life around her. “She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life.”[Pg. 181] “The notes of a distant song which some one was sinking reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves.” [Pg. 181] A new life that was optimistic, beautiful and awaiting for her to experience on her own. Through the open window was proof that her solution for her heart and marriage problems was out there, “she was drinking in a very elixir of life through that open window.” [Pg. 182] Louise was ready to enter the world seen through the window and she had nothing holding her
First, the two different locations used within the story represented two different feelings the main character Louise Mallard felt in the story. The story began downstairs were Louise is informed that her husband has been killed in a train accident. Her initial reactions are heartbroken and despair. “She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment.” [Pg. 181] Than Louise moves upstairs alone were a sense of freedom overcomes her. “But she saw beyond that bitter …show more content…
While she looked out the window she saw and heard life around her. “She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life.”[Pg. 181] “The notes of a distant song which some one was sinking reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves.” [Pg. 181] A new life that was optimistic, beautiful and awaiting for her to experience on her own. Through the open window was proof that her solution for her heart and marriage problems was out there, “she was drinking in a very elixir of life through that open window.” [Pg. 182] Louise was ready to enter the world seen through the window and she had nothing holding her