Great sci-fi often serves as an allegory for current social and political issues.
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James Hibberd,
HollywoodReporter,
6 May 2025
The comic is often read as a political allegory, particularly resonant due to the author's disappearance under Argentina's last military dictatorship, according to the Buenos Aires Herald.
These distortions reduce a complex conflict to a morality play.
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U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Apr. 2025
But the set, in which Dylan played the electric guitar and embraced rock ’n’ roll publicly, was more complicated than a morality play pitting backward folk purists against forward-looking rockers.
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.
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Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
28 Mar. 2025
This fair is also a bestiary, with many of its animal objects ready to serve.
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