What is an allegory?

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System of ideas reflecting a particular social and political vision.

When an abstract idea is expressed through a person or a thing.

Relates to a common racial, tribal, or cultural origin or background that a community identifies with or claims.

A vision of a society that is so ideal that it is unlikely to actually exist.

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An allegory is an abstract idea expressed through a person or a thing.
Artists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries discovered a solution by personifying a country. In other words, they portrayed a nation as if it were a person. An allegory is when a person or thing represents an abstract idea (such as selfishness, envy, freedom, or liberty). A literal meaning and a symbolic meaning are both present in an allegory. Instead of representing a specific woman in real life, the female form used to personify the nation aimed to give the nation's abstract idea a concrete structure. In other words, the female character evolved into a national allegory. Artists throughout the French Revolution employed the feminine allegory to represent concepts like Liberty, Justice, and the Republic.

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