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You need to distinguish allegory and applicability. Tolkien wrote on the subject: I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and th...
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2019-12-12T21:57:36Z (almost 5 years ago)
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2019-12-08T11:11:13Z (almost 5 years ago)
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You need to distinguish allegory and applicability. Tolkien wrote on the subject: > I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author. Any time you write about genocide, it would be applicable to the Holocaust to some extent, people would be thinking of the Holocaust to some extent, because the Holocaust is the most prominent point of reference to such an event on people's minds. Even discussing real-life genocides, the Holocaust is mentioned as a point of reference and comparison. How do you make your story not an _allegory_ of the Nazi regime? You do your research, and then make your story sufficiently different. With fewer similarities, the allegorical interpretation is too weak. To achieve this difference, you might find it helpful to look at other instances of genocide, such as the [Armenian Genocide](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide), and other fascist governments, such as Franco's and Mussolini's.
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2019-03-07T00:46:44Z (over 5 years ago)
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