1. messages of morality
... which objects and persons within a narrative are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The allegorical figure exists simultaneously on two levels of meaning "the literal one or what the figure does in the narrative, and the symbolic level, what the figure stands for, outside the ... use of allegory was held in reserve for a literate audience, and in the Middle Ages this meant the nobility and clerks. Morality plays spoke to medieval man's anxiety about being prepared for death without delving into the depths of Biblical history; they simply focus on the time span of...
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