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Allusion is an indirect reference to something famous that the reader is expected to be familiar with. It allows writers to simplify complex ideas by comparing them to known references. Examples of allusions in the document include "Romeo" referring to Shakespeare's Romeo, and "Pandora's box" referring to the Greek myth. The novel Catcher in the Rye contains many allusions to other works of literature, historical figures, and elements of pop culture that add depth and context.

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Allusion 2

Allusion is an indirect reference to something famous that the reader is expected to be familiar with. It allows writers to simplify complex ideas by comparing them to known references. Examples of allusions in the document include "Romeo" referring to Shakespeare's Romeo, and "Pandora's box" referring to the Greek myth. The novel Catcher in the Rye contains many allusions to other works of literature, historical figures, and elements of pop culture that add depth and context.

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Allusion in

Catcher
What is allusion?

Allusion is a brief and indirect reference to a


person, place, thing or idea of historical,
cultural, literary or political significance. It
does not describe in detail the person or thing
to which it refers. It is just a passing comment
and the writer expects the reader to possess
enough knowledge to spot the allusion and grasp
its importance in a text.
Function of allusion
By and large, the use of allusions enables
writers or poets to simplify complex ideas and
emotions. The readers comprehend the complex
ideas by comparing the emotions of the writer
or poet to the references given by them.
Furthermore, the references to Greek
Mythology give a dreamlike and magical touch to
the works of art. Similarly, biblical allusions
appeal to the readers with religious
backgrounds.
Examples..
● Don’t act like a Romeo in front of her.” –
“Romeo” is a reference to Shakespeare’s Romeo,
a passionate lover of Juliet, in “Romeo and
Juliet”.
● The rise in poverty will unlock the Pandora’s box
of crimes. – This is an allusion to one of Greek
Mythology’s origin myth, “Pandora’s box”.
● “This place is like a Garden of Eden.” – This is a
biblical allusion to the “garden of God” in the
Book of Genesis.
Allusions in Catcher
Literature
● Beowulf (2.31, 15.20)
● "Lord Randal" (2.31, 15.20)
● Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa (3.4)
● Ring Lardner (3.4, 18.7)
● Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native (3.4, 15.18, 15.20)
● Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage (3.4)
● William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (15.20-27)
● William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (15.20)
● Robert Burns, "Comin Thro' the Rye" (16.3, 22.51-55)
● William Shakespeare, Hamlet (16.6)
● Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (18.5)
● Rupert Brooke (18.7)
● Emily Dickinson (18.7)
● Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (18.7)
● F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (18.7)
Continued..
Pop Culture Historical Figures
● The Atlantic Monthly (2.3)
● Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (4.1)
● Benedict Arnold (21.27,
● Song of India (4.1) 25.56, 25.65)
● The Ziegfeld Follies (4.16) ● Wilhelm Stekel (24.54,
● Cary Grant (5.6) 24.56)
● Vogue (8.50)
● The Baker's Wife (10.3)
● Raimu (10.3)
● The 39 Steps (10.3)
● Robert Donat (10.3)
● Peter Lorre (10.23, 10.30)
● Gary Cooper (10.43)
● The Lunts (Alfred Lunt and Lynn
Fontanne) (16.6)
● Sir Laurence Olivier (16.6)
● The Saturday Evening Post (17.6)
Allusion explained..

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Allusions in music

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In relation to the “Catcher”:
Comin’ Thro’ the Rye has gained almost all its audience and
readership maybe because of Holden Caulfield’s
misinterpretation in the novel, The Catcher in the Rye. While
relating his fantasy to his sister Phoebe, he becomes the
catcher in the rye who saves the children from falling from a
cliff. During this, Phoebe corrects his mistake and says that
the poem does not deal with a Catcher in the Rye but is
about a girl named Jenny who meets her lover in the Rye, to
“kiss” him or what is originally meant. The title of the novel
The Catcher in the Rye written in 1951 by J.D Salinger has
been borrowed from this poem because of Holden Caulfield’s
misinterpretation and he keeps imagining some children
playing at the edge of a cliff in a rye field and dreams that
he rescues them from falling off.

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