An Argument Of Humanity, Justice, Horror, Duty, Mercy, Hope

The color red symbolics all of the colors and how each can have numerous emotions coming

This movie explores issues of greed, human relationships, betrayal and redemption, personal innocence and responsibility as well as the effects on the human mind

Colors are used in literature to describe the different emotions of a character. Colorism is a type of symbolism used in literature. Death uses color symbolism in The Book Thief to describe a character's emotion because he is the narrator. Color symbolism in literature is when the author uses a color to symbolize the character's emotion; it occurs throughout The Book Thief. Red, white, and gray or silver are the colors that are used the most frequently and have the biggest meanings throughout the novel.

4. What was the point of the movie? (ex: a political statement, a moral idea, reflections on society)

In the movie, The Shining, Stanley Kubrick uses shades of red and blue to symbolize innocence and perniciousness. In the beginning of the film, the owner of the Overlook Hotel wears a dark blue jacket with a deep crimson tie as he informs Jack Torrance of the macabre past of the hotel. In the following scene, Wendy Torrance, Jack’s wife, wears a bright, colorful blue dress with a vibrant red shirt and socks while discussing the positive side of Jack’s outbreak against his son. Similar to Kubrick’s use of color in The Shining (AdvSC), F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the colors yellow and gold to symbolize new and old money. Both authors use similar, but different colors as a symbol to display the relationships between both themes. Gold represents old

“At the beginning of the cycle, the darkness calls, drawing like to like until one comes who is empty: like a vessel who will gather the darkness into it, and enable infection to grow and extend like cancer. The vessel has come, the darkness now gathers” (page 84). Evil that gathers in Cheshunt comes in shades of colours: “fire-red” and “uniform-blue”. But each of these evils are defeated by “love-white”. The mental battle of evil and how evil can be abusive, aggressive and violent (fire-red) and the deceptiveness and dishonesty of authority (uniform – blue) can be hard to fight, but the good (love-white) overcomes all and wins against any colour of evil even though every colour makes white and every shade of evil makes up good.

Finally, these colors relate to the one of the themes of the book, humans savage instincts will come out when rules are removed, because Jack puts on the hunting paint and he lets in prevail and consume him. Red-

Madison McDonald Dr. Jeann Owens English 2110 November 25, 2016 Color Symbolism Colors hold a great significance for many people around the world, varying throughout cultures, religions, and ethnic groups. Colors are also used to evoke different emotions in our soul such as; red for power and aggression, bright colors like yellow and orange representing warmth and happiness while blue and black portray sadness and depression. Along these same lines do authors compose their symbolistic work. Throughout history authors have used color to express a deeper level of intellectual thinking to their audience, we refer to this as color symbolism. Charlotte Perkins Gilman chose an ordinary color in one of the most well known examples of color symbolism, yellow.

Death, the narrator of The Book Thief, sees colors as a distraction while he does his job. Death carries souls out of a person’s body. Death sees color in nature as a way to distract himself from the dreary deeds he must perform. Death also visualizes colors in nature as a way to divert his true feelings towards the survivors of those who pass. Blue symbolizes complacency as a way for Death to surpass his true feelings while doing his job.

Friedrich Schleiermacher, a German philosopher, taught of the importance of culture within the hermeneutic circle. The hermeneutic circle is the understanding that to understand a full text you must understand its parts, yet to understand the parts of the text you must understand the full text. This statement by itself forms a paradox that appears to capture the reader in a circle of which one cannot escape. While understanding hermeneutical texts is difficult, the full meaning of the text and its parts can be grasped by researching the history and culture of the topic in question. The novel Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko is written in a hermeneutic style, which results in many loose ends at the end of the novel.

What significant cultural value or belief does the film convey? What is important about it?

Some examples of color associations include yellow, representing false golden quality and death, and white, which represents innocence and possibly femininity,

The symbolism of colors across the novel plays a major role for many of the characters’ and their relationships, but they hold one of the

These colors represent how evil people are usually are mysteries

The color green appears a lot in this film and is the first color we see right away. Green in an indirect way represents the matrix. The scene where Morpheus and Neo meet for the first time in the matrix, Morpheus is in an all black suit with a green tie. However, in the real world, Morpheus does not wear a green tie. Also, the oracles apartment walls are painted green representing the matrix. Another odd occurrence in the movie is that the exit signs in Neo's world are green unlike how exit signs are red in the real world. The color blue is also used frequently in the film. Most scenes filmed in Morpheus' ship are blue themed. Also the delivery guy, who gives Neo the phone he first talks to Morpheus on, is dressed in a blue outfit. Another color used a lot in this film is the color red. It is safe to say the color red in this movie represents the sacrifice for freedom. Another time red is used in this film is during the scene where Neo must choose the red or blue pill. The red pill led Neo to his freedom and new life, whereas the blue pill would have brought him right back to his life within the matrix. The use of colors in this film allowed for artistic appeal and created a solid amount of symbolism throughout the movie (“Observations about the Movie”,