Discuss the use of allegory in Nikolai Gogol's, The Government Inspector?

Allegory: The Last JudgmentThe play may be read as an allegory of the Last Judgment. The townspeople and civil officials are plagued by their own vices and are entranced by the Antichrist in the form of Khlestakov. They woo him, serve their own ends, and are caught off-guard when the real Christ arrives to judge them. According to this reading, Gogol exhorts his audience to pick up on the moral message implicit within the comedy and to confront to their own immorality.