Yellow, or gold, is an archetype that in a room is commonly the first color to be noticed. The gold around the red letter draws the attention of the public towards her scarlet letter, thus drawing attention to her sins. This shows her truth cannot be kept a secret. Lastly, as the novel is coming to a close, the narrator is describing the burial place and headstone of Hester Prynne. He describes that upon the tombstone, there appears to be a coat of arms that has inscribed on it, “On a field, sable, the letter A, gules.” Red is used to represent sin or passion.
Pearl is the product of Hester’s sin. “Her mother, in contriving the child’s garb, had allowed the gorgeous tendencies of her imagination their full play; arraying her in a crimson velvet tunic, of a peculiar cut, abundantly embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread. So much strength of coloring, which must have given a wan and pallid aspect to cheeks of a fainter bloom, was admirably adapted to Pearl’s beauty, and made her the very brightest little jet of flame that ever danced upon earth” (Hawthorne 69). Pearl is as well called the names “Ruby,” “Coral,” or “red Rose,” and “a little bird of scarlet plumage,” further extending Pearl as a red representation of Hester’s sin. Pearl is the scarlet letter in another form because without Pearl, Hester would have never had to wear the scarlet letter and she wouldn’t have been humiliated and taunted therefore causing her to lead a better life.
Levy’s “naivety” (in her own opinion at least)of what a real marriage is like is totally shattered by what a marriage should be in her own terms. Besides that, Levy really helps the audience receive an image that their relationship (Levy’s and her fiancé) was just like any other one, because they would fight, bicker, and love all at the same time. One particular example of this would be the small scene in which they are picking wedding dresses, and Amy (her fiancé) really sees the wedding as an important piece, therefore she is incredibly picky over Levy’s dress, and generally other elements of the wedding, just like any other couple. Levy stated“ I modeled a low-cut pale-gold dress with spaghetti straps and a gauzy skirt from Mission. ‘Nice!’ said Amy.
The mirror reflected the woman’s face as she applied her mask. Foundation, powder, eye shadow, liner, mascara, blush, and lipstick are all applied as she satisfies her need to appear beautiful. In Susan Sontag’s passage, Women’s Beauty: Put Down or Power Source?, she explains the definition of beauty and the plight of contemporary women with respect to beauty. Women are overly concerned with superficial appearances and they do not express who and what they really are. Although beauty was once considered a virtue and can be considered a form of power, it is really a form of oppression that leaves women objectified and constantly working to be attractive.
This embodied sin of Hester follows her wherever she travels to, just as the actual embroidered letter sticks with Hester. Just as Pearl depicts her mother's sin, she also shows her mother's resilience and emotional strength. This is equivalent to how the scarlet letter ends up being a symbol of power in the Puritan society. "The scarlet letter had the effect of the cross on a nun's bosom. It imparted to the wearer a kind of sacredness which enabled her to
The story starts out with Hester and Pearl on the scaffold. This where the scaffold means shame because this is the place where Hester receives the scarlet letter. The letter is a very wonderful looking but it is has a terrible meaning. "On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold-thread, appeared the letter A. It was so artistically done, and with so much fertility and gorgeous luxuriance of fancy, that it had all the effect of a last and fitting decoration to the apparel which she wore; and which was of a splendor in accordance with the taste of the age, but greatly beyond what was allowed by the sumptuary regulations of the colony.
Character Ingredients In the story Macbeth, they are many ingredients that can describe Lady Macbeth. In the order in which the ingredients would be, set from most to least is Greed, Devotion, Envy, Desire, and Sacrifice. In the way of Lady Macbeth shows greed is by how much she wants to be on top of the social class. In the story Lady Macbeth says, “Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be / What thou art promis'd. Yet do I fear thy nature, / It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness / To catch the nearest way.” (I.V.15-18).These lines tell how much she wants power so bad that she makes Macbeth feel unmanly by telling what she could do.
Bracelets dangling and making noises when she moves her arm… The dress is loose and flows, and as she walks closure, I like it. I hear Maggie go "Uhnnnh" (Walker 2439). She shows a very selfish characteristic and that trait is repeatedly brought out in the story. For instance, she begins to ask for things in the house like the chair and desk. Another instance is when she asks her mother for the quilts her grandmother had made, her mother said they were for Maggie; Dee's reply was, “Maggie wouldn't appreciate the quilts” and Maggie says, “Dee can have them” (Walker 2441).
Later in the novel we meet Curley’s wife, she is portrayed as a provocative character with her “full, rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes”. From this quote we can infer that Steinbeck is presenting Curley’s wife as a sexual object, with her red lipstick. In addition we can say that her red lipstick and her red nails can indicate danger, lust and passion. However on the other hand we can say that she puts on her makeup to cover up her loneliness and the shattered broken dream of her becoming a star. Steinbeck’s creates effect through illustrating
This is seen when Steinbeck repeats red colour ‘Her fingernails were red’ and ‘red ostrich feathers’. Red colour has the connotation of love, passion and danger. The use of red colour with curley’s wife enforce the reader to think about her life as she have no love in her life, her passion, being an actress, died and she can be dangerous for Lennie because he is only one who is attracted towards her. Moreover, Steinbeck has also used simple short sentence ‘Her figure nails were red’ to put emphasis on the colour red and to keep the readers engaged by portraying his