Contained within Economic Sophisms is the famous satirical parable known as the " Candlemakers ' petition " which presents itself as a demand from the candlemakers ' guild to the French government, asking the government to block out the Sun to prevent its unfair competition with their products.

Other guilds presented scenes appropriate to their trade: the building of the Ark from the carpenters ' guild ; the five loaves and fishes parable from the bakers and the adoration, with its offerings of gold, frankincense and myrrh, from the goldsmiths.

The album's release was preceded by the release of its first single, " Short Skirt / Long Jacket ", described as a parable about " the relationship between prosperity and the population boom ...

In Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, a play is staged as a parable to villagers in the Soviet Union to justify the re-allocation of their farmland: the tale describes how a child is awarded to a servant-girl rather than its natural mother, an aristocrat, as the woman most likely to care for it well.

Thus cast appropriately, the parable regains its message to modern listeners: namely, that an individual of a social group they disapprove of can exhibit moral behavior that is superior to individuals of the groups they approve.

This parable ’ s content is clearly practical and dramatic in its obvious meaning, but a time-honored Christian tradition also saw the parable as an impressive allegory of the Fall and Redemption of mankind.

One of its beautiful stained-glass windows portrays the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden at the top of the window, and, in parallel, the parable of the good Samaritan at the bottom.

Bernard Brandon Scott, a member of the Jesus Seminar, questions the authenticity of the parable's context, suggesting that " the parable originally circulated separately from the question about neighborliness " and that the " existence of the lawyer's question in and, in addition to the evidence of heavy Lukan editing " indicates the parable and its context were " very probably joined editorially by Luke.

Like the allegory, the parable uses metaphor to make its point.

Peter Travers, in a favourable review for Rolling Stone, praised the film for its timely AIDS parable and described Ryan as miscast in the role of the troubled Katherine.

" Kevin Thomas wrote in the Los Angeles Times that the film is " a mesmerizing parable of good and evil and a splendid example of Southern storytelling at its most poetic and imaginative.

W. Cleon Skousen has stated that aside from its spiritual message, this parable also resembles capitalism and entrepreneurship.

The story is used as a gnostic parable of the soul's pre-existence and return from its terrestrial sojourn ".

An anecdote thus is closer to the tradition of the parable than the patently invented fable with its animal characters and generic human figures — but it is distinct from the parable in the historical specificity which it claims.

In its lack of explicit moralism it is much closer to the novel than to the parable: " the story is the first thing, the moral the second, and the latter is never suffered to interfere with the former.

A parable is equally an ingenious tale intended to correct manners, but it can be true in the sense that " when this kind of actual event happens among men, this is what it means and this is how we should think about it ", while an apologue, with its introduction of animals and plants, to which it lends ideas, language and emotions, contains only metaphoric truth: " when this kind of situation exists anywhere in the world, here is an interesting truth about it.

A few scholars have suggested that the novel hides in its story a parable critical of the military dictatorship, particularly through the portrayal of a repressive but ineffectual assistant police commissioner, Pedrito Gordo.

Not only does the parable function as a philosophical and religious work in its own right, but it also furthers the character development of the larger novel.

The story is used as a gnostic parable of the soul's pre-existence and return from its terrestrial sojourn ".

During the 1970s, prior to its sign-off message Richmond, Virginia television station WWBT broadcast " Justice and The Circuit Rider ", a rural preacher appearing on his mount, Justice, and presenting a brief parable using props from his saddlebag.

While " a considerable number of exegetes in fact suppose that the parable of ' The Wise and Foolish Virgins ' ultimately goes back to Jesus ," some Bible commentators, because of its eschatological nature, doubt that Jesus ever told this parable and that, instead, it is a parable created by the very early church.

The Hobbit may be read as Tolkien's parable of World War I with the hero being plucked from his rural home and thrown into a far-off war where traditional types of heroism are shown to be futile.

The entire play takes place atop a hill, which some may interpret as being closer to heaven, giving the play a purpose as religious parable.

* Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov features a famous parable involving Christ coming back to Seville in the days of the Spanish Inquisition, and being confronted by Torquemada as the Grand Inquisitor.

* The parable of the sheep and the goats ( Matthew 25: 31-46 ) portrays the judgment of the nations as being based on each individual's compassion on others, not on their religious background.

The core idea, of a man traveling to a far country being related to a kingdom, has vague similarities to Herod Archelaus traveling to Rome in order to be given his kingdom ; although this similarity is not in itself significant, Josephus ' account also contains details which are echoed by features of the Lukan parable.

The parable does not criticise the virgins for sleeping, since both groups do that, but for being unprepared.

3rd-2nd centuries BCE ) has a famous parable involving emperors Hundun 渾沌, Shu 儵 " a fish name ; abrupt ; quick ", and Hu 忽 " ignore ; neglect ; sudden ".

In support of this is the coincidence that the father and five brothers who will not be convinced even if the parable Lazarus is raised from the dead ( Luke 16: 31 ) predict that Caiaphas, Annas, and the five sons of Annas would not believe and plotted to have the real Lazarus killed when he was raised ( John 12: 10 ).

With a significant nod to the parable style the old man's act of saving and caring for a stray kitten saves his life when he is lost through a soft place in reality and meets Morpheus, recently released from his imprisonment ( Preludes and Nocturnes ), and still weak.

The point of the broken window parable is to show that one cannot ignore the hidden costs of taking wealth to build the road when totalling up any such " net benefit.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times observed, " It's a little surprising, although not boring, when it turns from a mystic travelogue into a feminist parable.

Price alleged that the clip portrayed him describing his wealth in extravagant terms, when he was actually telling a parable about a rich man.

The parable regarding Motonari, his three sons, and the lesson of the three arrows is believed have been a source of inspiration for Akira Kurosawa when he was writing his epic film Ran.

The agents intend to keep a watchful eye on Danny, but become drunk and are not paying attention that night when Danny, while preaching at the Freewill church, relates a parable about Joseph that convinces the miners that they have been deceived by a false story.

Kierkegaard started out, in Either / Or, by saying, "“ You know how the prophet Nathan dealt with King David when he presumed to understand the parable the prophet had told him but was unwilling to understand that it applied to him.

For Herzog, the point of the parable is the need to act in solidarity when confronting injustice.

That Ibsen was offering a parable was noted in a review of the first London staging, when the translator, Edmund Gosse, was asked to explain the meaning of the work.

The arguments in favour of identification of the Rich Man as the Sadducees are ( 1 ) the wearing of purple and fine linen, priestly dress, ( 2 ) the reference to " five brothers in my father's house " as an allusion to Caiaphas ' father in law Annas, and his five sons who also served as high priests according to Josephus, ( 3 ) Abraham's statement in the parable that they would not believe even if he raised Lazarus, and then the fulfillment that when Jesus did raise Lazarus of Bethany the Sadducees not only did not believe, but attempted to have Lazarus killed again: " So the chief priests made plans to put Lazarus to death as well " ( John 12: 10 ).

It is not improbable that St Paul, an educated Roman citizen, knew this story ( not necessarily through Livy ) and was prompted by it in his use of the same parable when he admonished the Christians of Corinth that, for all their " diversity of gifts ", they were all members of one body ( I Cor.

The term was used in the play Inherit the Wind ( a parable that fictionalizes the 1925 Scopes " Monkey " Trial ), when the character of Matthew Brady ( representative of William Jennings Bryan ) argued that " Ladies and gentleman, devolution is not a theory but a cold fact ... the ape devolved from man ", mocking evolutionary theory by offering an alternative he considers just as plausible.

" The Old Homestead " presents a winding, oblique parable of Young's career, including reference to those who question Young's insistence on using the band Crazy Horse when more polished musicians are easily available.