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Definition of Allegory
An allegory is a work that conveys a hidden meaning—usually moral, spiritual, or political—through the use of symbolic characters and events. The story of "The Tortoise and The Hare" is... read full definition
An allegory is a work that conveys a hidden meaning—usually moral, spiritual, or political—through the use of symbolic characters and events. The story of "The... read full definition
An allegory is a work that conveys a hidden meaning—usually moral, spiritual, or political—through the use of symbolic characters and... read full definition
Act 1, Scene 2
Explanation and Analysis—Jealousy:
Attempting to convince Camillo to lay aside his suspicions that his wife is conducting an affair, Flamineo metaphorically compares a jealous husband to a man who sees the world through glass:
FLAMINIO
Now should
you wear a pair of these spectacles and see your wife tying her shoe, you would imagine twenty hands were taking up of your wife’s
clothes, and this would put you into a horrible, causeless fury.CAMILLO
The fault there, sir, is not in the eyesight.FLAMINIO
True, but they that have the yellow jaundice think all objects they look on to be yellow. Jealousy is worser: her fits present to a man, like so many bubbles in a basin of water, twenty several crabbed faces; many times makes his own shadow his cuckold-maker.
