1. Allegory
Allegory:
A form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself.
The underlying meaning has moral, social, religious, or political significance, and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas as charity, greed, or envy.
Thus an allegory is a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.

2. The Allegorical Portrait of Elizabeth I
with Old Father Time at her right. Death is looking over her left shoulder while two Cherubs remove her weighty crown, so she became princess but not queen.

3. The Cycle of Terror and Tragedy
In 2002, Douglas Hyland, the director of the New Britain Museum of American Art, approached Graydon Parrish to create an allegorical tribute to the terrorist attacks of September 11, The completed painting… is over 18 feet long and is one of the largest realist paintings ever created in America. However, it has become somewhat controversial… for its highly symbolic content, said to express the cycle of denial and tragedy.

4. Allegory of the Cave “Human Beings” “Underground Cave” “Chains” “Fire”
“Behold! human beings living in a underground cave, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the cave; here they have been from their childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them, being prevented by the chains from turning round their heads. Above and behind them a fire is blazing at a distance, and between the fire and the prisoners there is a raised way; and you will see, if you look, a low wall built along the way, like the screen which marionette players have in front of them, over which they show the puppets… And do you see, I said, men passing along the wall carrying all sorts of vessels, and statues and figures of animals made of wood and stone and various materials, which appear over the wall? Some of them are talking, others silent.” Groups:
“Human Beings”
“Underground Cave”
“Chains”
“Fire”
“Marionette Players” (Shadows)
“Men Passing Along”

5. Allegory of the Cave Groups: Steps:
Select a focus from the groups below
Create an image for this focus
On the image include…
A quote that exemplifies how the focus symbolically operates in the larger allegory
An analysis explaining the quotes significance.
The answer to your assigned question from the homework
Groups:
“Human Beings”
“Underground Cave”
“Chains”
“Fire”
“Marionette Players” (Shadows)
“Men Passing Along”