Sentences with phrase «stories as allegories»

Gene Roddenberry often pushed his series to explore stories as allegories for modern life and politics; here «Trek» becomes a Cold War story in which the Federation and a nearly bankrupt Klingon Empire are dropped into the context of a political thriller.

I should have specified at the beginning that only fundamentalist Christians believe the Bible is the literal, inerrant word of God, and that many people interpret the stories as allegories.

Naturally, the temptation is strong to interpret this story as an allegory for the rise of fascism, but I don't believe there is any easy key to understand it.

The play stars Beatrice and Virgil, a donkey and a howler monkey, and Henry comes to see their story as an allegory for the Holocaust.

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In the case of creationism, for example, scientific evidence now exists which contradicts directly with the creation myth (unless one thinks of the creation story as being an allegory or something like that).

Could the story of the Fall be an allegory for the origins of humanity's tendency to sin based not on «original sin» but on the freedom given to humanity in Genesis 1 and the responsibility given in Genesis 1 to govern ourselves and this world as free agents, not puppets or childishly dependent on God?

The problem with Christianity is that you've taken fictional stories meant to stand as allegories and moral lessons... and attempted to force them into being literal and factual.

Perhaps with the feeding of the multitude and the walking on the sea the spiritual lesson came first, and the story grew out of it as a parable or allegory.

By serving as a politically resonant allegory about the ways differing beliefs can divide friends and family, it also became one of Marvel's first, bonafide tragedies — a story of what happens when good people get their priorities confused.

The second story is not strictly a parable, as we think of it, but an allegory containing several meanings.

The fantasy story must be significant in its own right and not, as in allegory, always subservient to the interpretation — a situation that casts reins and boundaries upon the imagination.

Pat likely doesn't believe that; however, many Christians view the Genesis account as allegory which does not «discredit» the spiritual relevance of the stories.

I've talked with Jews about this matter, and they said the stories in the Torah (Adam and Eve, Noah's Ark, etc.) aren't meant to be taken as literal, historical facts, but as allegories and moral tales.

The story is an allegory for the death of Pirola's own father, John, who suffered for years through searing neuropathic pain as a result of a brain stem tumor, and over several years, underwent more than 10 brain / skull - based surgeries.

Carissa Robinson (at To Parent As One Who Has Been Richly Forgiven) has posted The Story of John Law and John Grace which is an allegory which explains the difference between living under the law and living under grace.

The novelty of Mastermind — a book that barely rises above its origins as blog posts — is in introducing these same ideas through the language and allegory of Conan Doyle's stories.

«Coco «is an allegory for the journey that we ourselves embrace and as we pass down the spirit of our own ancestors to our kids, through stories, morals and values passed down to us.

Although this is an animated film and is at its core a comedy (with many dog - related jokes), the story also serves as an allegory for serious topics.

The story is a tragic allegory about the interdependence of individuals in Japanese society and how this conflicts with individual choice and desire, and I can't imagine it being remade in this country, where the rightness of the heroine's choice would more likely be regarded as self - evident.

The political allegory component of the story isn't particularly compelling — it's been interpreted as a commentary on the hysteria of Trump era — but as a movie about parental anxieties, it's steely and effective.

Hallucinatory and perturbing, and fiercely acted by Carla Gugino and Bruce Greenwood, Gerald's Game is a single - setting horror survival story that doubles as a powerful allegory about the specter of sexual abuse.

In case you don't figure out that this story is meant as timely political allegory, there are bill - boarded hints along the way, the most obvious including Kemp holding forth on Nixon's legacy and the despoliation of Paradise.

For as much sound and fury Deadpool makes about breaking the boundaries of superhero convention, Zootopia is a lot quieter about its story that manages to work as an allegory about — of all unlikely subjects — racial profiling.

Godzilla gets a lot right, hiring excellent actors even in bit parts to sell every inch of the story, focusing on characters, the emotional stakes of the leads and even embracing the atomic - age fears and allegories that the Toho Studio films utilized while putting a modern - spin on them — the casualties and cost of life within such disasters (there is a 9 / 11-esque disaster - porn tinge to the film, but it's certainly not as thoughtless as it is in «Man Of Steel»).

Additionally, the entire story can be taken as an allegory of social upheaval.

She writes about her struggle and, in one of the strongest scenes in this film, shares her story, written as a poetic allegory, with her class.

As an adult, he says, he rediscovered the story only to find that it was not a fantasy adventure so much as a satirically charged political allegory about the «author's» home country of Florin (I know it's fictional now, okayAs an adult, he says, he rediscovered the story only to find that it was not a fantasy adventure so much as a satirically charged political allegory about the «author's» home country of Florin (I know it's fictional now, okayas a satirically charged political allegory about the «author's» home country of Florin (I know it's fictional now, okay?)

Santiago Muñoz captures the aspirations and imagined futures of those who are deeply invested in alternative models of being, using the stories of farmers, activists, and artists working in Puerto Rico as allegories for larger political possibilities in the region.

com2kid: I had similar thoughts about math being stereotyped as anti-creative, but I think Hugh had to pick * something * to play the bad guy in this little story, else his quick and simple allegory would have derailed into a tangled spiral of qualifications and disclaimers.

Remote Controls also features the video Seduction of a Cyborg (1994), a poetic allegory about technology's invasion of the body; The Complete Electronic Diaries (1986 - 1994), a 76 - minute single - channel «video typed» confessional that records Hershman Leeson's struggle, transformation, and transcendence as her personal story unfolds before the camera; and several short video works.

He keeps inventing new ways to challenge our beliefs in ostensible truths and convincing lies, creating surreal stories that can be read as allegories for political events and historic accounts.

I started to think about this as I read my own recent story about Alma Asay, the former Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher litigator who founded the litigation management platform Allegory.