Neill Blomkamp

Obviously I don't want to make a film that offends people, but the whole world is so politically correct - I'm not going to not do something because it may be politically incorrect. At some point, the metaphors and allegories break down. They disappear, and you just have science fiction.

South African Director

Amandla Stenberg

There's so much power in allegory, to form ideas and learn lessons that you can actually take and apply to real life. I think that's why I originally really loved fantasy and reading.

American Actress

Henry Timrod

Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.

American Poet

Boots Riley

If you tell a story that's only allegory, then it doesn't help you at all. If it doesn't bring some emotional charge, then it's just talking about something.

American Musician

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.

German Poet

Manuel Puig

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

Argentinian Author

Juan Antonio Bayona

The tree has been always an allegory for spiritual growth.

Spanish Director

Charles Baudelaire

French Poet

George A. Romero

American Director

J. R. R. Tolkien

English Novelist

Allegories often use characters and events to symbolize real-world issues, making complex ideas easier to understand.

Symbolic Storytelling

Look beyond the surface to find deeper messages in an allegory, as they are not always obvious.

Hidden Meanings

An allegory can be interpreted in different ways; there may not be one 'correct' interpretation.

Interpretation Varies

In allegories, characters represent more than just themselves; they stand for wider concepts or groups.

Beyond Characters

An allegory might disguise controversial or complex ideas in simple stories to explore them safely.

Ideas in Disguise

An allegory often mirrors real-life events or issues, adding depth to the understanding of those events.

Reflecting Reality

Allegories aren't just in text; they can be represented visually in art and symbolism.

Visual Metaphors

Your personal experience and knowledge can influence how you understand an allegory.

Personal Interpretations

Allegories can be rooted in cultural history, so some knowledge of the culture may help in understanding them.

Cultural Context

 respect here you see submissive gestures from two members of very closely related species but authority in humans is is not so closely based on on power and brutality as it is in other primates it's based on more voluntary deference and even elements of love at times the fifth foundation is purity sanctity this painting is called the allegory of chastity

The moral roots of...

 by examining concepts like justice, truth and beauty. In the allegory, a group of prisoners have been confined in a cavern since birth, with no knowledge of the outside world. They are chained, facing a wall, unable to turn their heads, while a fire behind them gives off a faint light.

Plato’s Allegory of the...

 What would an allegory of good government look like today? Because I think it's an urgent question. It's one we have to ask, and we have to start answering. We know we are what we eat. We need to realize that the world is also what we eat. But if we take that idea, we can use food

Carolyn Steel: How food...

 Although Roman culture was never fully lost, its influence declined and new art styles arose focused on religious symbolism and allegory rather than proportion and realism. This shift extended to architecture

A brief history of goths...

 to discover why he was born. We are raising a free black boy in a world that despises black joy, and we refuse to put limits on him that the world already has. Our parenting can be seen as an allegory

Ebony Roberts and Shaka...

 Some scholars have. I'm hardly an art historian, but I am passionate about art, and a work this massive can overwhelm me. So first, I focus on the big stuff. This is the allegory of good government.

This is what democracy...

 about the rising and setting sun, or other natural cycles. But the vivid image of someone condemned to endlessly repeat a futile task has resonated as an allegory about the human condition.

The myth of Sisyphus -...

 an allegorical imagining of the soul’s journey towards God. But Dante’s "Divine Comedy" is more than just religious allegory. It’s also a witty, scathing commentary on Italian politics.

Why should you read...

 going to navigate things going down a river is kind of like an allegory for life like you don't you don't know what's around that next bend you don't know what's going to happen

At 17 Million Years Old,...

 because I love to be with the nature and with the waves the guy who made this board he was the first guy that surf the Polka in Brazil in allegory River so he knows