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This doesn't mean Moby Dick is not a classic, but it also doesn't mean that Moby Dick is the be-all-end-all example of an allegorical tale.

This one looks like it was meant to work as a literal story as well as an allegorical one.

The whole point of 'unobtanium' is to draw attention to the allegorical nature of the film.

It often featured the exact same kind of allegorical criticism of conformity and paranoia.

Many people consider Moby Dick to be a classic - but when compared to more modern allegorical works, it's rather dry and boring.

I'm not a die-hard animal lover, but it just somehow seems allegorical to many of humanity's problems...

The Man Who was Thursday by GK Chesterton....very well written allegorical spy novel.

Setting critical literature in fantastical or allegorical contexts is as old as writing.

Agreed -- reading it, it felt like it needed to be more allegorical.

Catholics historically (going back to Augustine) have believed that parts of the Bible like the creation account in Genesis are allegorical rather than literal.

I see it as an intentionally abstract and allegorical world, more like a cartoon or fairy-tale.

More modern versions of Christianity view that Bible as largely allegorical.

I'm assuming that here, "FizzBuzz" is more of an allegorical example than a literal test question, as it would be rather useless in a test.

I have (internally) dubbed such economic systems "management economies" and have even gone as far as to write the openings of an allegorical novel that explores the consequences of such an economy.

For instance, there are those of us creationists who believe in the story of creation as somewhat allegorical, a cultural way of explaining a complex series of events that originated from an intelligent design, possibly including a singularity, evolution, and whatever else might be considered the "anti-creationist" view.