Seelewig was a moral allegory inspired by the example of contemporary school dramas and is the first German opera whose music has survived.

The use of the animal characters is an unmistakable signal that the tale can be read as a moral allegory and example.

With "The Lottery," she offered a brilliant moral allegory for small-town America.

Combining heartfelt moral allegory with astonishing craftsmanship, they had a power and sincerity to which much modern stuff pales.

What appealed to American painters in Martin's art was its potential for moral allegory, crucial to artists who saw themselves as creating a national myth.

The play is a moral allegory about Mankind, a representative of the human race, and follows his fall into sin and his repentance.

The set could possibly have been The World series, depicting various moral allegories and including a globe.

Many stories explain events or establish moral allegories from iconic or symbolic characters of the past.

But they quickly assume the uneasy, sweet-sour look of moral allegories, some of which have topical sources.

This influence is evident in Spenser's text, as demonstrated in the moral allegory of Book 1.