Allegory

Christina Del Rosario Professor D’Amato Approaches to Literature 9 October 2014 “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Analysis In “Young Goodman Brown”, Nathaniel Hawthorne incorporates symbolism, imagery, allegory, in order to underscore his themes of the hypocrisy of public morality and the inevitable loss of innocence. The short story takes places in Salem, MA during not only the Salem Witch Trials of 1962, but moreover the Puritan Intolerance and King Phillip’s War. Such a…

In 1954, William Golding wrote a book called “Lord of the Flies”, which was an allegory of real life events that were happening at the time. The fictional book is set during WWII, when a plane with a bunch of boys crashes on an island. With no adults left alive, they were forced to fend for themselves; to find a way to survive without falling into the shadow of savagery. In the end, the shadow does take over most of the boys and they go into war to try kill the only other boys who are still…

Throughout The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, Lewis utilizes a myriad of components, or symbols, to create an allegory of Christianity. These components suggest Lewis was crafting this story to convey Christian concepts. Examples of religious symbolism include Aslan, the stone table, the beavers underlying characteristics, the children’s “title”, and even the White Witch. Aslan is a character who strongly resembles Jesus Christ. Within the first few chapters, the fawn and the beavers speak…

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story Young Goodman Brown, Goodman Brown realizes that everyone has a capability for evil, and that there is no hope for mankind. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses ambiguity to leave the readers with questions, and to put them in a similar place of confusion and paranoia to Goodman Brown. While in the forest Goodman Brown has a run in with the devil, who shows him the maliciousness of those he had once thought pure (Hawthorne 4). He finds that nearly everyone in town had malignant…

The Psychological Allegory Portrayed in Lord of the Flies Sigmund Freud categorized human personality into three groups that are all dependent on each other: the id, ego, and superego. The id controls impulsivity, the ego focuses on reality, and the superego is concerned with morals. The id and superego are clashing opposites that need the ego to keep the balance between them. William Golding tie this psychoanalytical idea into his novel, Lord of the Flies, where a group of young boys stranded…

The allegory implied that there is a difference between appearance and reality. I believe that this is true because what the prisoners saw in the cave was different than what they saw when the prisoner escaped and had the chance to go outside. For example, in the story, the fire did not look like one till the prisoner went outside and realized it was a fire. In the cave the prisoners were shackled to a wall and could not move or turn their head so what was in the cave was all they had known.…

I remember the very first book I ever read, it was a paper book made by my teacher. The illustrations looked as though a child had drawn them with a pack of crayons, the sentences were very short and very boring. I remember reading “Pat sat down” over and over, “Pat drinks juice.” The simplest sentences ever, and I had to read that same ridiculous book everyday. It was that small, elementary book that made me hate reading. I read as little as I possibly could, just barely enough to get through…

sudden bright explosion and a corkscrew trail across the sky.” Previously, near the end of Chapter 5, Ralph had asked for a sign of grown up and the use of imagery in the explosion implies that a grown up’s plane was shot down or malfunctioned. This allegory was written after WW2 and Golding imagined an aerial based war because all the civilians have been evacuated off the land. The author implies that there would be a potential survivor from the airplane to likely make contact with the children…

Who knew that a dirt-stained, timid boy could be the center of a story’s allegory. In the Lord of the Flies written by William Golding, young boys get stranded on an island after a plane crash and they have to survive on their own. The boys end up losing their innocence and turning savage, committing the crime of killing each other and obsessing over a fictional beast. Simon, a main character is the only one on the island who has a spiritual nature, is kind, and wise which corresponds to Jesus.…

¨The Masque of Red Death¨ is one huge allegory with many meanings for every symbol. On this mask, I drew three symbols that are important to this story. To begin, there are seven rooms. The rooms represent the cycle of life. It begins, in the blue room, purple, green, orange, white, violet, and then the black room. In the story ¨Red Death¨ walks from room to room, till they reach the black room with the red window, ¨There was a sharp cry-and the dagger dropped gleaming upon the sable carpet upon…