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| While it is easy enough to represent a ruler through a portrait or a statue, how does one go about giving a face to a nation? Artists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries found a way out by personifying a nation. In other words, they represented a country as if it were a person. Nations were then portrayed as female figures. The female form that was chosen to personify the nation did not stand for any particular woman in real life; rather it sought to give the abstract idea of the nation a concrete form. That is, the female figure became an allegory of the nation. |
What is an allegory?
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The female form that was chosen to personify the nation did not stand for any particular woman in real life, rather it sought to give the abstract idea of the nation a concrete form. Female figure became an allegory of the nation.
The male form that was chosen to personify the nation stands for a particular woman in real life, rather it sought to give the abstract idea of the nation a concrete form. That is, the female figure became an allegory of the nation.
The male form that was chosen to personify the nation stands for a particular man in real life, rather it sought to give the real idea of the marriage a concrete form. That is, the female figure became an allegory of the nation.
The female form that was chosen to personify the nation did not stand for any particular woman in real life, rather it sought to give the real idea of the marriage a concrete form. That is, the male figure became an allegory of the nation.
Solution
The female form that was chosen to personify the nation did not stand for any particular woman in real life, rather it sought to give the abstract idea of the nation a concrete form. Female figure became an allegory of the nation.
