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38 Political Allegories

Northrop Frye discussed what he termed a "continuum of allegory", a spectrum that ranges from what he termed the "naive allegory" of The Faerie Queene, to the more private allegories of modern paradox literature. In this perspective, the characters in a "naive" allegory (particularly a political one) are not fully three-dimensional, for each aspect of their individual personalities and the events that befall them embodies some moral quality or ideological aspect; the allegory has been selected first, and the details merely flesh it out
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1984 (George Orwell)
1984 (George Orwell)
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Animal Farm
Animal Farm
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Anthem
Anthem
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Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged
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The Bloody Chamber (Angela Carter)
The Bloody Chamber (Angela Carter)
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Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
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The Butter Battle Book
The Butter Battle Book
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Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut)
Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut)
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The Crucible
The Crucible
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The Dispossessed
The Dispossessed
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Ender's Game
Ender's Game
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The Faerie Queene
The Faerie Queene
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Flatland
Flatland
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Folding Beijing (Hao Jin)
Folding Beijing (Hao Jin)
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Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels
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The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
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Harrison Bergeron
Harrison Bergeron
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Horton Hears a Who!
Horton Hears a Who!
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In the Penal Colony
In the Penal Colony
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Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
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The Last Man
The Last Man
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The Lorax
The Lorax
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Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
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The Lottery (Shirley Jackson)
The Lottery (Shirley Jackson)
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A Madman's Diary
A Madman's Diary
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Make Room! Make Room!
Make Room! Make Room!
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The Melancholy of Resistance
The Melancholy of Resistance
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Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
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No One Is Here Except All of Us
No One Is Here Except All of Us
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One Good Story, That One (Thomas King)
One Good Story, That One (Thomas King)
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The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas (Ursula K. Le Guin)
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas (Ursula K. Le Guin)
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The Plague
The Plague
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The Time Machine (H.G. Wells)
The Time Machine (H.G. Wells)
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We (Yevgeny Zamyatin)
We (Yevgeny Zamyatin)
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A Wrinkle in Time
A Wrinkle in Time
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The Wump World (Bill Peet)
The Wump World (Bill Peet)
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The Yellow Wallpaper
The Yellow Wallpaper
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Yertle the Turtle
Yertle the Turtle
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