I'd say the easiest way to understand it as an allegory is to go ahead and make the direct correlations between it and Plato's Allegory of the Cave. In both cases we have a prisoner who becomes unchained and ascends out of the darkness and into the light. In both cases the light represents the truth. Both freed persons also feel an obligation to go back and educate those who remain in the darkness.
it's an allegory
prose allegory is to represent something in another manner
The story is an allegory for man's struggle with nature.
Allegory
There isn't one, but you can put non-anthem, not an anthem, anti-anthem, anthem-less to your sentence.
I'd say the easiest way to understand it as an allegory is to go ahead and make the direct correlations between it and Plato's Allegory of the Cave. In both cases we have a prisoner who becomes unchained and ascends out of the darkness and into the light. In both cases the light represents the truth. Both freed persons also feel an obligation to go back and educate those who remain in the darkness.
Allegory is a noun.
The plural of allegory is allegories.
Allegory is a type of symbolism
it's an allegory
prose allegory is to represent something in another manner
The story is an allegory for man's struggle with nature.
Sandro Botticelli painted the Allegory of Spring
An allegory is a metaphor extended to the length of a story.
Some thought-provoking questions about Plato's allegory of the cave include: What does the allegory suggest about the nature of reality and perception? How does the concept of enlightenment or education relate to the allegory? In what ways does the allegory comment on the role of knowledge and ignorance in society? How might the allegory be applied to contemporary issues or situations?
Time flew by...The Faerie Queen is an allegory for the Bible
Time flew by...The Faerie Queen is an allegory for the Bible