Both Uses of
allegory
in
War and Peace
- Then he was again led somewhere still blindfolded, and as they went along he was told allegories of the toils of his pilgrimage, of holy friendship, of the Eternal Architect of the universe, and of the courage with which he should endure toils and dangers.†
Chpt 5 *
- Though it was not clear what the artist meant to express by depicting the so-called King of Rome spiking the earth with a stick, the allegory apparently seemed to Napoleon, as it had done to all who had seen it in Paris, quite clear and very pleasing.†
Chpt 10allegory = fictional story symbolic of something real
Definition:
a fictional story whose characters, items, or events are symbolic to express a deeper meaning