Post History
When I use symbolism, I think of replacing something concrete with an abstract idea, but can you use these abstract ideas and then tell a story inside a story that's inside a story? As in: Us...
#3: Attribution notice added
by
System
·
2019-12-08T10:54:09Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/42264 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
by
repomonster
·
2019-12-08T10:54:09Z (almost 5 years ago)
When I use symbolism, I think of replacing something concrete with an abstract idea, but can you use these abstract ideas and then tell a story inside a story that's inside a story? As in: > Using symbolism to tell an allegory and use the symbolism inside the allegory to tell yet another allegory. > > Actual story \> Allegory \> Another allegory I feel like this is not possible, or was never done. When I think of symbolism, I think of an unique space where all symbolism have the same depth? Are there other ways in which a symbol can be deeper than another one?
#1: Imported from external source
by
System
·
2019-02-16T01:25:54Z (almost 6 years ago)
Original score: 3