Spenser's continuation and divergence from the Arthurian romance tradition are discussed in order to clarify the dialectical equiponderant relationship between romance and allegory of the poem.
In another revealing story, Catholic seminarians strode past a distressed bystander while in a hurry to give a lecture on the parable of the good Samaritan.
It's only in the Victorian era that they become moral children's tales and it looks like we're going back to the inception of fairy stories now with a more adult take on them.
The film is, he said, is " another parable of parental crisis dressed up as a brightly coloured family adventure" - and a " cautionary tale about online childhoods" .
The speculative side has a more introspective aspect to it – it deals with using symbolism, language, and allegory to speak of spiritual truths and lead one along the path to wisdom and maybe even transcendence, in some ways.