How allegories were used for visualizing a nation?

1.	How allegories were used for visualizing a nation?
Answer» Since the eighteenth century, several poets and artisans had started developing an idea of visualizing a nation as if it was a person. They felt that personifications of a nation helps in inculcating a sense of common identity, of a collective heritage among the Europeans, be it even illiterates. They believed that it makes the people feel that there is some sort of similarities among them through symbols of their cultural aspirations. Thereafter, ALLEGORIES have been used to personify the nation.

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