When I was young I really sucked at Literature classes. The teacher was always asking for symbolisms behind the classics by Dickens, Verne and yes at one point in my latter college life, Shakespeare. I learned to climb my way through it by making up a lot of symbolisms which I strongly forced down the throat of my teachers.
And you know what, they couldn't do anything about it because that was "how I saw it!"
Then you start to realize that maybe a lot - if not all of these great writers were so adept at making these symbolisms - these metaphysical insights come true to life. I bet some of these were just coincidence. If I may borrow a quote from Robert Masello,
Writers write a story, not a theme. They write about things, not symbols. They write dialogue, not polemics.
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