It can be noted that brighter, vibrant colors, appear at the beginning at the poem, and begin to deteriorate into bleaker, darker colors as the poem progresses, along with the speaking voices emotions. An example of this can be seen at the beginning of the poem ‘Spinster, in which she describes the colors of spring as “a rank wilderness of fern and disarray”, expressing the speaking voice disdain for this disorder. As the poem progresses, the woman praises winter for its orderly format, “Of white and black”. Plath is obviously attempting to portray the speakers disdain for disordered arrays of colors, and prefers the contrasting colors of both white and black.
The Red Tree-Vincent Chen The Red Tree-Vincent Chen Shaun Tan’s text, “The Red Tree”, explores the power of hope, renewal and inspiration. The journey follows that of a young nameless girl as she experiences her day-to-day life in a dark and dull world, expressing her feelings of alienation, loneliness and depression but eventually, finding the hope and passion to see the brighter side of life. This is conveyed through the use of effective visual and language techniques thus allowing the responder to visualise, imagine and understand the emotional impacts of such a journey. The simple story line depicts a young girl moving through a sequence of striking landscapes. The narrating text is left deliberately spare and simple – “Sometimes the
Colour is used as Tan’s way of presenting to us the little girl’s progression in her feeling of belonging. In the picture ‘Without sense or reason’, bright reds and oranges are used to reveal her uplifting hope of finding somewhere she belongs. It contrasts to the shining beacon of the red leaf, which characterizes this feeling of hope. Ultimately, in the final pages when the little girl returns home, there is a big red tree in her room, the colours contrasting the darkness of the rest of her room, symbolising that this is where she belongs, where she started. This can be related to May’s final feeling of belonging because she also ends up where she started through her understanding of where home
He uses symbolism when she is first introduced; “Both men glanced up, for the rectangle of light was cut off.” The reference to the light can suggest that she cuts off the light because she is a negative character, and/or she takes away anything, which is good. The description of Curley’s wife starts with “a girl” that suggests that she appears looking sweet and innocent, childlike even. During the description, the colour red is repeated several times, “rouged lips”, ”her fingernails were red”, “red mules” and “red ostrich feathers”. This is a key thing because usually the colour red means; love, danger, blood, prostitutes – red light district, and passion. Red is also a primary colour in which young children are attracted to, this could explain why Lennie likes her so much; he has a childlike manner.
Elizabeth Meza English 107 MWF Wilcoxen 5 December 2014 Scarlet Red As the fog cleared, she found herself still blinded—rather poisoned by the thorns penetrated deep within her scarlet beauty. Though her beauty was recognized for that flicker of life in her eyes, every time you saw her smile you could not help but envy her bliss. Deep down to her soul she was different. When she could smile, she pondered knowingly how awful it felt to live in darkness. This withdrawn expression froze her face as if she had forgotten what it means to smile.
Despite the warnings that she should go straight to her Grandmother’s, Little Red Riding Hood becomes distracted by feminine pursuits, portrayed through the compound sentence “…gathering nuts, running after butterflies, and gathering bouquets of little flowers.” This emphasises her age and vulnerability as she isn’t aware of her surroundings and the danger they can impose. Her naivety is further displayed through the present participle ‘believing’ in relation to the sound of the wolf’s ‘big voice’ being her grandmother’s, despite noticing many ‘odd’ features such as “Grandmother, what big ears you have!” and
The girl shown in the picture is also positioned in the back corner and this indicates that she has no authority. This is further demonstrated through the angle the picture is shown which is a high angle shot and this positions her as being weak and inferior. The audience can also see a snail in the corner of the picture, which symbolises how slow her life is going. Also the frame of the bright red leaf shows her hopes for life and this is juxtaposed with the decaying leaves around her, which further emphasizes her low mood. From the visual techniques used there are many ideas communicated to the audience as we can feel a sense of loneliness, depression, and desperation.
• “ She had full, rouged lips and wide spaced eyes, heavily made up, her finger nails were red.” Showing her physical description. • “Lennie watched her fascinated” this is showing how pretty she is. • “Jesus what a tramp” showing how George doesn’t approve of her. • “ I could get you strung up a tree so easily it aint even funny”, this is showing how she has a higher status than crooks and she is racist. • “ I get awful lonely sometimes “ showing how the other people stay out of her way and don’t like her.
The effects of sin in The Scarlet Letter are the sins that are represented through characters, events, and symbolism. Hester represents the effects of sin throughout the novel by showing the ways it can affect characters. When Hester is at the forest, she takes off the scarlet letter, and she “felt the freedom.” She has to wear the scarlet letter her whole life because of the crime she committed. This causes her to become depressed and sad, but if she did not wear the scarlet letter she would feel free. Also, when Pearl and Hester were at the governor’s hall, the governor thought Hester was not “of authority and influence” and had “stumbled and fallen amid the pitfalls of this world.” The
When he leaves his wife at the beginning of the story, her pink ribbons symbolize her virtue and goodness but somewhere in the course of the evening he lost the meanings of those pink ribbons and only saw what Faith might have done while in the forest. “Faith! Faith!” cried the husband, “look up to heaven, and resist the wicked one.” “Whether Faith obeyed he knew not.” (162) The pink ribbons now symbolized doubt and fear instead of virtue and