In AC/DC, Williams uses the way in which schizophrenics often feel controlled by external forces as a metaphor for the way the media conditions people's minds.
Refusing the parental legacy, getting loose from the grip of the past, has been a theme of drama from time immemorial and a staple of films in which the external often serves as metaphor for the internal.
According to Martin (1992a), logical and experiential metaphors cooperate when external conjunctive relations are realized metaphorically and "this interaction produces a high level of abstraction in text, making it inaccessible to large sections of the community" (Martin 1992a, p. 407).
Gordon-Reed writes of James, for instance: "As liberating as Paris could be to Hemings's inner life, his enslavement was an important external reality, not the stuff of metaphor or psychology".
So writer's block is a metaphor for an obstacle – something external rather than internal inside of you – that's preventing you from working.
In a rather mixed metaphor, Reichenbach compares our knowledge of the external world to seeing shadows of flying birds on the walls of a cube in which one is confined.
The real external circumstances of her characters' lives serve as literal metaphors of their existential state; they both cause that state and overwhelmingly express it.
This inner meaning must not be divulged to the masses, who must accept the plain, external meaning of Scripture contained in stories, similes, and metaphors.
But it is precisely the viability of such an external standpoint that Quine denies in his embrace of the metaphor of Neurath's boat.
Another entailment of the DISEASE metaphor, especially the mapping between "four winds" and external causes of corruption, is that putting blame on "four winds" for causing corruption distracts from, if not obviates the need for further search of culprits.
