Complex sentence: On its surface, "The Adventures of Telemachus" was a novel about Ulysses'son Telemachus, but in reality, it was a biting attack on the divine right absolute monarchy which was the dominant ideology of Louis XIV's France.
Split into simpler sentences: On its surface, "The Adventures of Telemachus" was a novel about Ulysses'son Telemachus. On another level, it became a biting attack on the divine right absolute monarchy which was the dominant ideology of Louis XIV's France.