allegories

Related by string. Allegories * * biblical allegories *

Related by context. All words. (Click for frequent words.) 70 allegory 64 allusions 62 parables 60 allegorical 59 subtexts 58 referents 58 metaphors 56 archetypes 56 allegorical tale 56 documentarylike 56 evocations 55 leitmotifs 55 philosophical treatises 55 morality tales 55 subtextual 55 narratives 55 darker undercurrents 54 psychodramas 54 fable 54 biblical allusions 54 fables 54 biblical narratives 54 parable 54 biblical epics 53 subtext 53 mythologies 53 mythological characters 53 philosophical musings 53 grotesqueness 53 cosmologies 53 sentimentalized 53 allegorically 53 phantasms 52 pastiches 52 Bildungsroman 52 allegoric 52 literary allusions 52 Expressionistic 52 recognizably human 52 dystopias 52 mytho 52 supernatural overtones 52 satire 52 koans 52 iconography 52 meta narrative 52 pastiche 52 characters 52 profundities 52 recurring motifs 52 poetic prose 51 dualisms 51 cosmogony 51 metafiction 51 magical realist 51 Pelevin 51 intertextual 51 abstractions 51 morality tale 51 evocation 51 depictions 51 motifs 51 Biblical allusions 51 von Trotta 51 Jungian archetypes 51 Jesus parables 51 Norse myths 51 intricately constructed 51 meta narratives 51 Homeric epic 51 mythology 51 pantomimic 51 metaphor 51 similes metaphors 51 satires 51 Shakespearean drama 51 satirical wit 50 fantasia 50 religious iconography 50 Shakespearean tragedies 50 conceits 50 pathos 50 overly didactic 50 phantasmagoria 50 Anouilh 50 caricatural 50 vampirish 50 cleverly woven 50 metaphorical meanings 50 referentiality 50 cinematic adaptations 50 lodestars 50 themes 50 Orpheus myth 50 sentimentalised 50 humanism 50 German expressionists 50 narrative 50 stylistic tics 50 epics 50 thematic threads 50 sketchily drawn 50 symbolisms 50 Gnostic gospels 50 mythological beings 49 fantasias 49 stylizations 49 didactic 49 picaresque novel 49 hyperrealism 49 lyric poetry 49 German Expressionism 49 poetic imagery 49 Interweaving 49 ambivalences 49 Gothic horror 49 exploitation flicks 49 scathing satire 49 Beckettian 49 palimpsests 49 overly preachy 49 expressionist 49 explications 49 Plato Symposium 49 tableaux 49 historicism 49 Mircea Eliade 49 personifications 49 throughline 49 simplicities 49 metanarrative 49 unadorned prose 49 Italian neorealism 49 re tellings 49 glorifications 49 imagistic 49 profounder 49 doubleness 49 aphoristic 49 broad brushstrokes 49 Tolkien esque 49 etymologies 49 Jean Giraudoux 49 reductively 49 apercus 49 Max Beerbohm 49 limn 49 hagiographies 49 thuddingly obvious 49 Svich 49 Pietro Aretino 49 irreducibly 49 apocalypses 48 richly imagined 48 stylization 48 insubstantiality 48 clichés 48 moralizing 48 sentimentalize 48 mordant humor 48 Honoré Daumier 48 poesy 48 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 48 abjection 48 bitingly satirical 48 recontextualized 48 ancient Greek mythology 48 sendups 48 depiction 48 Conradian 48 stilted dialogue 48 prefiguring 48 epigrams 48 Faulknerian 48 symbolist 48 philosophical musing 48 Hieronymous Bosch 48 historian Thucydides 48 absurdist satire 48 protagonists 48 exquisitely rendered 48 Bourgeois Gentleman 48 transcendentalism 48 sardonically funny 48 Géricault 48 melodrama 48 medias res 48 sociopolitical 48 unreliable narrators 48 rivetingly 48 Allusions 48 retelling 48 repressed sexuality 48 vivid depictions 48 epigraphs 48 melodramas 48 exoticized 48 literalism 48 canonical texts 48 wryly amusing 48 literary pretensions 48 Arthurian legends 48 contemporary resonances 48 dramatisations 48 spaghetti Westerns 48 mythmaker 48 signifiers 48 Oedipus Complex 48 dryly humorous 48 cartoonishness 48 philosophical ruminations 48 Godardian 48 playlets 48 mythological tales 48 intellectual pretensions 48 attitudinizing 48 naturalism 48 meditations 48 literalized 48 homoerotic subtext 48 jarring juxtapositions 48 intertextuality 48 Icelandic sagas 48 millenarianism 48 vanitas 48 homages 48 gnosticism 48 Masculine Feminine 48 supernatural thrillers 48 surrealism 48 Mysterious Stranger 48 biblical parables 48 Communism Nazism 48 overdetermined 48 moralities 47 retellings 47 elisions 47 epilogues 47 Elizabethan playwright 47 recurring motif 47 Maeterlinck 47 mythological 47 paradoxes 47 reified 47 grand guignol 47 tropes 47 lyrical abstraction 47 literary masterpiece 47 theological virtues 47 Abstinence Teacher 47 binary oppositions 47 stylistic flourishes 47 surrealist imagery 47 cliches 47 universal truths 47 Hindu epics 47 reclining nudes 47 beautifully wrought 47 Bieito 47 pulp noir 47 descriptive passages 47 ghoulishness 47 Tractatus 47 gothic novels 47 dualities 47 vampire mythos 47 Russian Constructivist 47 characterisations 47 sly satire 47 fictionalization 47 snobberies 47 objective correlative 47 overly melodramatic 47 Gericault 47 altarpieces 47 mythologically 47 mythological themes 47 Sophoclean 47 stark realism 47 archaisms 47 poetic monologues 47 singspiel 47 de Chirico 47 Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy 47 grotesqueries 47 recurrent motif 47 mythmakers 47 Norse myth 47 weaves tapestry 47 knob gags 47 tableaus 47 framings 47 opera libretto 47 absurdism 47 fictions 47 clichd 47 psychologies 47 Santa Sangre 47 homiletic 47 metaphysical 47 limned 47 slapstick comedies 47 zoomorphic 47 Picasso Demoiselles d' Avignon 47 interwoven storylines 47 mimesis 47 neorealist 47 exquisitely attuned 47 immanence 47 visual puns 47 Greek tragedians 47 commonplaces 47 undertones 47 apocryphal gospels 47 psychologizing 47 Márai 47 constructivists 47 mordantly funny 47 homo eroticism 47 sympathetic portrayals 47 realistic depictions 47 scriptural texts 47 monologues 47 Magical realism 47 tableaux vivants 47 avant gardes 47 Superhero comics 47 mythological creatures 47 da capo arias 47 Stanley Kubrick Dr. Strangelove 46 Absurdist 46 Tautly directed 46 Cervantes Don Quixote 46 feminisms 46 postmodern 46 complexly 46 exhortatory 46 philo Semitism 46 Borgesian 46 Aubrey Beardsley 46 hardboiled detective 46 Louis De Bernieres 46 Silas Marner 46 villanelle 46 mise en scène 46 epical 46 bowdlerised 46 orientalism 46 anthropomorphized animals 46 denotative 46 conceptualizations 46 EM Cioran 46 self referential humor 46 polemic 46 macrocosmic 46 literal meanings 46 triptychs 46 escapist fantasies 46 allusive 46 Dostoevsky novel 46 Grimm fairy tales 46 Whitmanesque 46 impressionistic portrait 46 Götz Spielmann 46 colloquial expressions 46 oaters 46 portrayals 46 magic realist 46 metafictional 46 utterly captivating 46 interpenetrate 46 dogmatist 46 Arthur Schnitzler 46 Gombrowicz 46 sublime silliness 46 tapestry woven 46 unflinching depiction 46 clichs 46 Un Lun Dun 46 impressionistically 46 intertitles 46 Douglas Sirk 46 affectionate portrait 46 fictionalisation 46 child's eye view 46 gothic romance 46 Herge Tintin 46 weltanschauung 46 dramatizations 46 existentialists 46 expressionistic 46 prose 46 evocative imagery 46 mindscapes 46 Herzogian 46 cautionary fable 46 Tanya Barfield 46 existential anguish 46 rhymed verse 46 visually ravishing 46 poetic 46 masterpiece Las Meninas 46 lyrical prose 46 biblical allegory 46 antitheses 46 Georges Bataille 46 strange juxtapositions 46 existentialist 46 situationists 46 novels 46 simplemindedness 46 Ophüls 46 Buñuel 46 universals 46 Aphorisms 46 dystopia 46 Swift Gulliver Travels 46 feminist critique 46 analogies 46 painterliness 46 Isaac Babel 46 Vampyr 46 poeticism 46 Dan Istrate 46 Au Hasard Balthazar 46 psychological thrillers 46 clowning pantomime charades acrobatics 46 Carl Theodor Dreyer 46 Svankmajer 46 Biblical quotations 46 Caprichos 46 fairy tales 46 Stalin Lenin 46 disjunctions 46 visually sumptuous 46 Carlo Gesualdo 46 weepy melodrama 46 vampire mythology 46 bunraku puppets 46 milieux 46 Krafft Ebing 46 semiabstract 46 Innaritu 46 Persian miniatures 46 philosophical rumination 46 Austen novels 46 childlike simplicity 46 Zen koans 46 thematically linked 46 Mary Shelley Frankenstein 46 decontextualized 46 Arabian Nights tales 46 anthropomorphism 46 polemical 46 polemically 46 psychological underpinnings 46 realistic portrayals 46 monster mash ups 46 rhapsodies 46 comic booky 46 romanticization 46 encapsulations 46 idealizations 46 German expressionist 46 didacticism 46 gothically 46 wonderfully descriptive 46 poetic musings 46 Sophocles Euripides 46 literal interpretations 46 Albrecht Durer 46 overwrought prose 45 palimpsest 45 richly evocative 45 exegeses 45 poet Christina Rossetti 45 profundity 45 Ox Bow Incident 45 elegies 45 polymorphously perverse 45 symbolism 45 Rudolf Bultmann 45 melodramatic flourishes 45 phantasmic 45 classical mythology 45 blaxploitation films 45 figural sculptures 45 declamatory 45 pastel illustrations 45 Pirandellian 45 expressionistic paintings 45 weaves tale 45 literary masterpieces 45 idealisms 45 Orphée 45 evocative 45 noir genre 45 humor pathos 45 poetics 45 Gustave Doré 45 Ealing comedies 45 maundering 45 films noirs 45 Platonic solids 45 pietistic 45 epigram 45 tragedians 45 mordantly 45 existentialism 45 cleverly interwoven 45 theatricalized 45 Dickens novels 45 Fictional characters 45 Gnostic texts 45 Grimm Fairy Tales 45 Premature Burial 45 subversively funny 45 Grimms Fairy Tales 45 bodice rippers 45 murderousness 45 nonrepresentational 45 inner torment 45 trenchant critique 45 Jean François Millet 45 Jane Austen Charles Dickens 45 German expressionism 45 Biblical references 45 graspable 45 filmmaker Stanley Kubrick 45 anthropomorphic creatures 45 absurdist 45 Hazel Motes 45 revisionist histories 45 scholarly tomes 45 apocrypha 45 thoroughly engrossing 45 stylistics 45 stagey 45 Nussimbaum 45 Edmund Spenser 45 sociological theories 45 omniscient narrator 45 fairytale princesses 45 acedia 45 Odilon Redon 45 Pardoner Tale 45 pantheism 45 autobiographically 45 caryatids 45 descriptive prose 45 genre tropes 45 monstrousness 45 metaphoric 45 Kazuo Koike 45 deracination 45 moralistic 45 Tekkon Kinkreet 45 existential quandaries 45 philosophical underpinnings 45 philosophical conundrums 45 melodramatic 45 Begaudeau 45 Moliére 45 unerring ear 45 metaphysical musings 45 nonliterary 45 disquietingly 45 Ancient Ones 45 Grimm fairytale 45 caricaturized 45 vulgarized 45 dialogue crackles 45 heathenism 45 preachy 45 Hans Bellmer 45 darkly satirical 45 espionage thrillers 45 leitmotif 45 performativity 45 Thematically 45 avant la lettre 45 eternal truths 45 phantasmagoric 45 fascinations 45 broodingly 45 Borzage 45 composer Jacques Offenbach 45 Francisco Goya 45 absurdist humor 45 hyperreality 45 ETA Hoffmann 45 science fiction thrillers 45 poetic flourishes 45 Giraudoux 45 interwoven narratives 45 illusionism 45 geometrical patterns 45 romanticist 45 moral ambiguities 45 medieval chivalry 45 dramatis personae 45 Hamlet Othello 45 misanthropy 45 Rafael Yglesias 45 utilitarian objects 45 viciously anti Semitic 45 Dashwood sisters 45 Hofmannsthal 45 classical antiquity 45 utopian ideals 45 Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five 45 formlessness 45 unrelievedly 45 po mo 45 tangled webs 45 penetratingly 45 kitchen sink realism 45 gothic tale 45 auteurism 45 hidden meanings 45 hieratic 45 myths fables 45 Jean Paul Rappeneau 45 grandiloquence 45 tonal contrasts 45 wonderfully evocative 45 dishonesties 45 illusionistic 45 mythological beasts 45 mythic 45 Cthulhu mythos 45 Gesamtkunstwerk 45 gods goddesses 45 Soren Kierkegaard 45 Flaubert Madame Bovary 45 dichotomies 45 bigotries 45 liltingly 45 gimcrackery 45 tellings 45 fairytales 45 blackly 45 postmodern irony 45 conceit 45 Melville Moby Dick 45 character arcs 45 fantastical 45 limning 45 Schlöndorff 45 tearjerkers 45 erotic overtones 45 Reigen 45 phallic symbolism 45 Social Realist 45 Martin Chuzzlewit 45 weepies 45 Shelley Frankenstein 44 Stellet Licht Silent 44 revivifies 44 ethno centrism 44 Polytheism 44 kaleidoscopically 44 alternate universes 44 Jacques Tourneur 44 Švankmajer 44 cultural signifiers 44 Akira Kurosawa classic 44 gnostics 44 à clef 44 mesmerizingly 44 Dr. Pangloss 44 paranoias 44 leitmotivs 44 ludic 44 dandyism 44 charcters 44 Plato dialogues 44 swooningly 44 Hitchcockian suspense 44 grotesquery 44 Ford Madox Ford 44 Salem witch hunts 44 esotericism 44 oneiric 44 Ivan Ilyich 44 Georges Rouault 44 Two Fridas 44 prose poems 44 contrived melodrama 44 unlikable characters 44 Erik Lochtefeld 44 Suffused 44 reification 44 finely etched 44 Homer epics 44 Tolstoy Dostoevsky 44 recountings 44 Chandleresque 44 Emily Brontë 44 pre Raphaelites 44 Mia Katigbak 44 Vedic texts 44 expressionism 44 Italian neo realist 44 odd juxtapositions 44 Yiddishisms 44 blaxploitation flicks 44 sociopolitical commentary 44 St. Josemaria 44 W Somerset Maugham 44 richly layered 44 monumentality 44 belabors 44 Brian Helgeland script 44 irreconcilable contradictions 44 spareness 44 implausibilities 44 ripping yarns 44 gothic overtones 44 deeper meanings 44 novelette 44 abstract compositions 44 narratively 44 philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein 44 unhistorical 44 Wallander novels 44 Mahabharatha 44 Lonely Crowd 44 cartoonlike 44 inflects 44 side splittingly 44 German playwright Bertolt 44 mysticism 44 neo romanticism 44 Elizabethan Age 44 flashback sequences 44 interwove 44 aestheticism 44 postmodern pastiche 44 overtly 44 Plautus 44 Kafka Metamorphosis 44 avant gardism 44 Georg Büchner 44 besetting sin 44 densely plotted 44 vanishings 44 Messud 44 Film Socialisme 44 imaginary worlds 44 interlaces 44 Vertov 44 What Maisie Knew 44 soullessness 44 Rabbit Redux 44 inescapability 44 Shakespearean comedies 44 symbolic meanings 44 Ashutosh Gowariker Lagaan 44 Nietzschean 44 Social Realism 44 Godfrey Reggio 44 jokiness 44 darkling 44 threnody 44 sensualist 44 romantic fable 44 unworldliness 44 Marcel Broodthaers 44 rasas 44 Crialese 44 fantastical tales 44 linear narrative 44 Hieronymus Bosch 44 Director Julian Jarrold 44 novel Cat Cradle 44 Charlotte Brontë classic 44 syllogisms 44 limns 44 poetries 44 dystopian sci fi 44 medieval tapestries 44 unabashedly sentimental 44 impressionistic 44 Grimm fairytales 44 referential 44 Miéville 44 sententious 44 Lamorisse 44 astonishments 44 surrealist painters 44 meanings 44 mindless repetition 44 totems 44 blackly humorous 44 psychosexual 44 Last Sin Eater 44 repressed desires 44 overarching narrative 44 geometric patterning 44 suspense thrillers 44 Hugo von Hofmannsthal 44 intricately structured 44 prose poem 44 blacklisted screenwriter 44 eroticism 44 Ein Sof 44 Historicism 44 fervid imagination 44 wickedly satirical 44 oeuvre 44 Cesare Pavese 44 Gustave Dore 44 alliterations 44 deftly woven 44 banally 44 Lovecraftian horror 44 maudlin sentimentality 44 Kathe Kollwitz 44 diaristic 44 hypocrisies 44 self reflexivity 44 bleakly comic 44 phallocentric 44 ingeniously constructed 44 vampire lore 44 Neo Realist 44 imaginatively conceived 44 Flannery O'Conner 44 thematic preoccupations 44 Swiftian satire 44 Louvish 44 folktales 44 Amenábar 44 Eumenides 44 wrenchingly 44 grittily realistic 44 supernaturalism 44 reimaginings 44 cantos 44 wordplays 44 abstract nouns 44 Hegel Marx 44 False prophets 44 historiographical 44 multiverses 44 essayistic 44 unknowability 44 hagiographical 44 sermonizes 44 Taiyo Matsumoto 44 Boccaccio Decameron 44 Michael Petroni 44 ornate carvings 44 boundlessness 44 Bertolt Brecht 44 restages 44 Bach chorale 44 humanistic 44 charaters 44 subjectivities 44 Maya Deren 44 intellectually vapid 44 essentialist 44 theologian Reinhold Niebuhr 44 wholly believable 44 stageplay 44 changelings 44 Chekhov Seagull 44 verismo opera 44 soaringly 44 Barlach 44 denouements 44 patriarchies 44 Jules Verne HG Wells 44 Leonardo Michelangelo 44 Francis Picabia 44 allusion 44 evoking 44 preachiness 44 illusional 44 Iliad Homer 44 cinematic oeuvre 44 Biblical texts 44 cross pollinations 44 theological treatise 44 bracingly 44 aching tenderness 44 film noirs 44 feminist theorists 44 suspenseful tale 44 folk idioms 44 narrative coherence 44 Calasso 44 faux naïf 44 naturalistically 44 Nechama Tec 44 Claude Cahun 44 juxtapositions 44 Morte d' 44 Laclos 44 Marco Bellocchio 44 Racism sexism 44 George Eliot Middlemarch 44 metaphors similes 44 clichŽs 44 villain Iago 44 existential dilemmas 44 nuanced portrayal 44 slavery colonialism 44 Freudian psychology 44 Roland Barthes 44 non sequiturs 44 medievalism 44 ideograms 44 rhetorician 44 Suprematist 44 Rabbit Angstrom 44 Little Eyolf 44 rhyming couplets 44 gore fests 44 neo dada 44 novelettes 44 trilogy 44 Divinely inspired 44 pieta 44 Moliere comedy 44 Jacobean tragedy 44 literalness 44 curiously detached 44 autobiographic 44 cogitations 44 Lola Run 44 Euripides Medea 44 skillfully weaves 44 Victorianism 44 parallelisms 44 Brontë sisters 44 darkly comical 44 gorgons 44 DW Griffith Intolerance 44 hermeneutic 44 hamminess 44 Italian giallo 44 female nudes 44 Puranic 44 exoteric 44 Erich Fromm 44 film noir 44 treacheries 44 Vivre sa vie 44 protag 44 versified 44 aestheticized 43 originary 43 utopias 43 wonderfully imaginative 43 recite passages 43 Schreker 43 Shakespeare Moliere 43 epic sagas 43 finely shaded 43 melodramatics 43 quasi autobiographical 43 hair raisingly 43 cloying sentimentality 43 Corelli Mandolin 43 Aesop fables 43 poetic sensibility 43 existential 43 tautologies 43 Tarkovsky 43 Bronte sisters 43 Neo Realism 43 Mordden 43 Vinyan 43 Dostoevski 43 celestial beings 43 erotics 43 captivatingly 43 slapstick farce 43 wildly imaginative 43 overarching themes 43 Zinnemann 43 achingly sad 43 arch villains 43 Lucifer Satan 43 hyperrealist 43 declarative sentences 43 self dramatizing 43 Håfström 43 Menander 43 Interspersing 43 sermonic 43 Light Carlos Reygadas 43 Sor Juana 43 Platonist 43 poetical 43 Shavian

Back to home page