Right You Are, If You Think You Are | Style
Parable
Parables, like the stories told by Christ in the Bible, are simple stories designed to teach a lesson. The simple, flat characters and rather thin plot serve to illustrate an important idea. Thus, the characters do not need to seem realistic, nor does the plot need intrinsic interest. In this way, the parable is a kind of allegory, which Coleridge defined as ‘‘a translation of abstract notions into picture-language.’’ Pirandello’s Right You Are, If You Think You Are is a parable in the sense that it is not really about a specific man, Laudisi,...
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