What to write an allegory about
Writing Lessons : How to Write an Allegory
Hi, this is Laura Turner. And today I'm going to talk to you about how to write an allegory.
First of all, you need to decide why you're writing your allegory. Are you going to be
writing your allegory to teach people about a certain moral point. That you want to get
across. And then, what is that moral point. And what is the best way in which you can
sort of, force this point out. A good play to read. If you want to look for a very good
example of an allegory in general would be, the play Every Man. By an anonymous play write
in the middle, medieval times, the middle ages. Every man is a story of every man. Who
goes on a journey of life to allegorically. So he is actually standing in for the idea
of every man. So he's going to allegorically go through life. And experience all of the
trials such as relations that we to experience. And he encounters allegorical characters like
death, for example as personified. So think about also what genre, you want to write in.
Do you want to write an allegorical play? You want to write an allegorical piece of
fiction. And then also think about why this writing is going to help people understand
and connect with your idea. And why is this story best told in this way. You always have
to be very self aware with allegory. It's not something that you can just sort of, use
off of the fly. You really have to think it out before you get into it. So this is how
to write an allegory.
