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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Casshern Sins]]'': {{spoiler|Casshern is Satan but good. Luna is Jesus but evil.}}
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** Fagin, the [[Affably Evil]] crook from ''[[Oliver Twist]]'', is named after an Irish co-worker of Dickens's (from his hated years in the boot-blacking factory.) Subverted in that Dickens's Fagin is explicitly Jewish (ethnically, anyway: in the scene where he's introduced we see him breaking Kosher laws by eating pork sausages.)
* Shirly Jackson wrote a short story called "The Lottery". It is about a town who ritually sacrifice a person, RANDOMLY DRAWN from the entirety of the townspeople, to be stoned to death to help the harvest. [[Word of God|It is about nothing else.]] There is no symbolism and deeper meaning in it beyond that.
* Tolkien. Poor, poor Tolkien. You can't write a successful good-versus-evil story in the twentieth century without every other English High School teacher hijacking it for a "Tom, explain how ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' is an allegory on WWII!" lesson. He stated in the introduction of the first volume that no, it's not an allegory of any kind (and was apparently against [[The Chronicles of Narnia|straightforward allegories]] anyway), and doubly no, not one on fascism, Nazis, WW II or what have you. Doesn't stop some teachers.
** Some people also seem to think that 'the West' into which Frodo & Co eventually go is ''only'' allegorical. While it ''can'' be construed as symbolic, it's also very much an actual place (as explained in the Appendices and ''[[The Silmarillion]]''.) Yes, it's a place. Where the angels and immortals live, and the dead rest in the ever-expanding halls of Mandos. It's not allegorical, it's stated.
** Tolkien drew a distinction between "allegory" and "applicable". The fact that a story has parallels with a real life event doesn't mean the parallels can't be legitimately drawn, but it doesn't justify 'explaining' the story by the parallels. Nor does it mean the author intended the parallels.
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