(11) Some feminist critics have interpreted Frankenstein as an allegory of childbirth which, in this case, is the product of solitary male propagation, being the proverbial scientist's brain child. (10) A story is an allegory of real life the characters are allegories of real people, since you only take the important parts of their lives. (8) Pilgrim's Progress is an allegory of the spiritual journey (9) I believe that categorizing this story as an allegory is more appropriate than doing so as a myth because a myth is defined as explaining natural phenomenon. (7) You could read the relationship as a love story or an allegory of two sides struggling to come together - East and West, Christian and Muslim, the have and the have-not - against the creeping influence of negativity. (6) But then comes the coded ending, and you realize that Bagger is a symbol, an allegory, a pillar of life, death and whatever else. (5) Throw Away Kids was three interwoven stories presenting as an allegory of the experience of Native people the world over. (4) My first response upon rereading the book, largely thanks to my current preoccupations, was to interpret the story as an allegory about writing fiction. (3) My university education had transformed me into a theistic evolutionist, one who believed that God intended the Genesis account of creation to be an allegory picturing the total evolution of the cosmos. (2) For those who don't know, the story is a futuristic allegory of the Arab Revolt familiar to most through the film Lawrence of Arabia. This is all the more likely as we know that Pereda participated in the painterly decoration of the Salón de Reinos in Madrid’s Buen Retiro palace in the early 1630s and thus worked for Spain’s King Philip IV.(1) The interactions between the characters in Springtime obviously form a political allegory, but rarely have I seen allegorical conceits that were as likeable as these characters are. All the above-mentioned details suggest that the painting was a courtly commission. In his left hand the Genius holds a cameo with the portrait of Emperor Charles V (1500–1558), while his right hand points to a globe, alluding to the world domination of the Casa de Austria. Time, happiness, wartime fame, beauty and science are the exposed attributes of vanity, which the winged Genius on the far side of the composition presents to the viewer: a precious clock, miniature portraits with a string of pearls (documents of a happy marriage?) and a handful of coins. Pereda arranges these items together with precious pieces of armour and a firearm on a bare wooden surface. It occupies a special place in the art of Madrid, because with it Pereda introduced to Spanish painting motifs of vanity symbolism long established in Netherlandish art: the brilliant and subtly differentiated depiction of skulls, a blown-out candle, an hourglass (to its left the line “Nil omne” – “All is nothing”) and brittle folios. The dear influence of Netherlandish painting is characteristic of his work, and this is particularly true of the present Allegory. We know little about the career of Antonio de Pereda, apart from the fact that
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