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   In rec.arts.books.tolkien westprog  wrote:   
      
   > "Steve Hayes"  wrote in message   
   > news:4fhgt1td54gijc31etookgoj1m71bp3vdp@4ax.com...   
   > ...   
   >> To call a whole work "allegory", as some insist on doing with the Narnia   
   >> stories (illegitimately, i believe) is quite different. In allegorical   
   > works,   
   >> the allegory is intended by the author,   
   > ...   
      
   > I think that an allegory needs to have a single interpretation. It isn't   
   > really possible to have multiple viewpoints as to what Pilgrim's Progress or   
   > Animal Farm are allegories of.   
      
   > If a work plausibly suggests multiple interpretations, then it certainly   
   > isn't an allegory.   
      
   > J/   
      
   How about "Moby-Dick" then?  The dictionary.com definition of   
   'allegory' cites "Moby-Dick" as an example of allegory.  Is   
   there only one possible interpretation of "Moby-Dick"?   
      
   Stephen   
      
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