Essays on Allegory
Plato’s cave allegory is a dialogue about perception and people rejecting reality due to ignorance. To demonstrate it, there exists a cave with people bound and tied in such a way that they are able to look only in one direction, towards a wall in front of them. They have been imprisoned since childhood and...
Plato’s cave allegory is a dialogue about perception and people rejecting facts due to ignorance. To demonstrate it, there exists a cave with people bound and tied in such a way that they are able to look only in one direction, towards a wall in front of them. They have been imprisoned since childhood and...
Allegory: First use of the word ‘allegory ‘in English was in 1382, the origin of this word is taken from Latin word ‘allegoria’, the latinisation of the Greek ἀλληγορία (allegoría), ‘veiled language, figurative’ (Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott). Allegory is considered as a literary device; allegory is a figure of speech called “metaphor” in which...