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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
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George Orwell
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm
2
George Orwell
Anthem (Ayn Rand)
Anthem
3
Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
Atlas Shrugged
4
Ayn Rand
The Bloody Chamber (Angela Carter)
The Bloody Chamber
5
Angela Carter
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
6
Aldous Huxley
The Butter Battle Book
The Butter Battle Book
7
Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut)
Cat's Cradle
8
Kurt Vonnegut
The Crucible (Arthur Miller)
The Crucible
9
Arthur Miller
The Dispossessed (Ursula K. Le Guin)
The Dispossessed
10
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
Ender's Game
11
Orson Scott Card
The Faerie Queene (Edmund Spenser)
The Faerie Queene
12
Edmund Spenser
Flatland (Edwin A. Abbott)
Flatland
13
Edwin A. Abbott
Folding Beijing (Hao Jin)
Folding Beijing
14
Hao Jin
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gulliver's Travels
15
Jonathan Swift
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
The Handmaid's Tale
16
Margaret Atwood
Harrison Bergeron
Harrison Bergeron
17
Horton Hears a Who! (Dr. Seuss)
Horton Hears a Who!
18
Dr. Seuss
In the Penal Colony (Franz Kafka)
In the Penal Colony
19
Franz Kafka
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man
20
Ralph Ellison
The Last Man (Mary Shelley)
The Last Man
21
Mary Shelley
The Lorax (Dr. Seuss)
The Lorax
22
Dr. Seuss
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Lord of the Flies
23
William Golding
The Lottery (Shirley Jackson)
The Lottery
24
Shirley Jackson
A Madman's Diary
A Madman's Diary
25
Make Room! Make Room!
Make Room! Make Room!
26
The Melancholy of Resistance
The Melancholy of Resistance
27
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
Midnight's Children
28
Salman Rushdie
No One Is Here Except All of Us
No One Is Here Except All of Us
29
One Good Story, That One (Thomas King)
One Good Story, That One
30
Thomas King
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas (Ursula K. Le Guin)
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
31
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Plague (Albert Camus)
The Plague
32
Albert Camus
The Time Machine (H.G. Wells)
The Time Machine
33
H.G. Wells
We (Yevgeny Zamyatin)
We
34
Yevgeny Zamyatin
A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'engle)
A Wrinkle in Time
35
Madeleine L'engle
The Wump World (Bill Peet)
The Wump World
36
Bill Peet
The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
The Yellow Wallpaper
37
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Yertle the Turtle (Dr. Seuss)
Yertle the Turtle
38
Dr. Seuss
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