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15 days agoExactly. It’s the difference between “the ring is a great power that corrupts” that the reader can draw parallels to their own experiences with, and “ring = nuclear bomb, Isengard = No Man’s Land” like it’s a slide puzzle with only one right answer.
A work can be deeply personal and reflect your beliefs without having to be strictly allegorical.
Bush did 9-11 is dumb, because he would have chose a symbolic NY site instead of an economically critical one: the Statue of Liberty (aka, Deus Ex got it right).