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.
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.
Between his writings on Socrates and his allegory of the cave, he reminds me what it means to be a true philosopher: gaining insight into reality and sharing it with the people around you.
After serving an apprenticeship under one of the best Florentine painters at the time, Fra Filippo Lippi, Botticelli was able to make a name for himself with his painting Allegory of Fortitude.
Others saw in it a veiled attack on the Catholic Church's role in the Inquisition, while yet others thought it was an allegory for the post-WWII order, where conferences at Yalta had carved up the globe.
" The Threepenny Opera" was such a runaway success not because people were so on fire for Brecht rendering London's criminal underworld as an allegory for exploitative labor practices in a play-staged-as-such.
Dean Gendler walks her students through this allegory to challenge them to consider this question: How do you discover truth given that the human mind is imperfect?
Scholars have also suggested the genre was a religious allegory relating to the heresy of Catharism, whilst others claim that it simply represented the superficial games of the medieval French court, but more on that later.