beast fable

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as in allegory

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  1. allegory
  2. parable
  3. morality play
  4. bestiary
Noun
  • In her role as well as elsewhere, Kalle downplays the explicit homophobia that might have rendered this a more simplistic allegory, making Asla less a figure of interfering jealousy than a woman who simply doesn’t want to be abandoned yet again.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 26 July 2026
  • This Pulitzer-winning neo-slave narrative reimagines the Underground Railroad as a real subterranean network, in a Sisyphean allegory that illustrates the relentless metamorphoses of white supremacy and Black resistance.
    — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 22 July 2026
Definition of allegory
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  • Mandela’s life and South Africa’s history should never be flattened into a corporate parable.
    — Gerald J. Leonard, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • The pair’s mysterious interactions in the early chapters give way to a series of parables of doubt and belief, in which a rational character is confronted by an irrational event—and immediately convinced of its absolute truth.
    — Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026
Definition of parable
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  • Ben-Ghiat’s comparative work on fascism does not function as a morality play either.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 July 2026
  • Every policy debate becomes a morality play.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 2 June 2026
Definition of morality play
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  • Kratos and his son Atreus traverse the nine realms, dig up old traumas, and stand off against a whole bestiary’s worth of gargantuan, flesh-eating monsters.
    — Luke Winkie, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Citizens of Louisiana only have to look up at their state flag to see an animal doing some pretty wild — and deeply symbolic — stuff out of a medieval bestiary.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 28 Mar. 2025
Definition of bestiary
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