Allegory
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Chess was used as an
allegory
for different social classes performing their proper roles, and the pieces were re-interpreted in their new context.
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And so maybe the teddy bear worked in part because the legend of Roosevelt and that bear in Mississippi was kind of like an
allegory
of this great responsibility that society was just beginning to face up to back then.
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.
It's been read as an
allegory
of the Cold War, the French Resistance, and Britain’s colonization of Ireland.
But the vivid image of someone condemned to endlessly repeat a futile task has resonated as an
allegory
about the human condition.
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