allegory

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Viewed this way, as Yair Mintzker writes in “I, Wandering Jew: A Five-Century History of Our Modern Condition,” the myth becomes “an allegory of the history of the Jewish people.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

Would it be a mistake to read this film as an allegory for what’s happening now in the world?

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2026

By presenting Satan's fall as a violent physical event instead of a purely spiritual allegory or optical illusion, Dante may have helped move Western thought toward the idea that celestial objects can directly reshape Earth.

From Science Daily • May 11, 2026

These days, a horror film must also be a blistering allegory for real life, with plenty of subtextual significance for the thinking viewer to glom onto.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026

In Plato’s allegory of the metals, the philosopher classifies men into groups of gold, silver, and lead.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela