Mccarthy Color Red Analysis

The “Roaring Twenties” was a particular time in American history when the success of the post-industrial era was glorified and exploited. However, this era also developed a shadowed side that would eventually lead to the Great Depression. As these events are metaphorically represented by its characters, The Great Gatsby endures as a staple of American literature. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a novel depicting an illusioned man’s fall into despair. Throughout this book, Fitzgerald draws connections between varying colors presented and their symbolism in the story. One such connection is seen in his use of the color black to represent hopelessness. In order to examine this conclusion, the color black will first be directly connected to its

Friedrich’s choice of color provides a solemn mood, close to desolation, as the man standing close to the shore ponders. This choice of color shows an

394). The second connection is found with the color red in the story are the American ideas of the negative things found in association with it. These things included blood, aggression, danger and war. These negative associations are connected with Henry throughout the story. When he returns home from war, Lyman says "once I was in the room watching TV with Henry, I looked over, and he'd bitten through his lip. Blood was going down his chin". This depiction is important because not only does it show Henry's misdirected aggression, but again uses red. "There was still blood going down Henry's chin, but he didn't notice", in this we see how a color once associated with the car that made Henry so happy, has become a body fluid going unnoticed (p. 396).

Cole has no restrain in describing the beauty of all the elements found in the American scenery. He talks about the mountains, the sky, the streams, the sunset, waterfalls, all of which are overflowing in richness, full of magnificence, and unsurpassed by any other. For Cole the scenery and nature are subjects which must be present in the souls of every American. While he considers himself and even others underserving of “such a birthright”, he is thankful for the beauties given to us by nature. Cole suggests to his audience that the reason behind him painting natural scenes relates to the experiencing of a particular emotional response while doing so. This is a response which can only be compared to a “calm religious tone”, full of “tranquility and peace.” Witnessing the beauties of the American scenery, anywhere one goes, makes one realize how “the sublime and beautiful are bound together in an indissoluble chain. In gazing on it we feel as though a great void had been filled in our minds.” Cole places great emphasis on the importance for all members of society to learn how to cultivate “a taste for scenery.” This can be achieved by appreciating the physical beauty of nature and the ability of said beauty to provide mankind with a different perspective about life and with

Irving uses color imagery to reveal aspects of his characters in this story by having a black mark on his forehead where the devil touches him. This color indicates that Tom has been tainted by the devil and is considering becoming similar to the devil. Tom has green spectacles in one scene of the story they represent money because money is green. Tom is wearing a white cap in another scene and then commits bad acts and ends up riding away with the devil. These colors bring a lot of mystery to the story of the "Devil and Tom

He also uses figurative language to stress the amount of blood he lost on the battlefield. He personifies it; “and a leap of purple spurted from his thigh”, to focus the reader’s attention on that he was bleeding profusely. It was bleeding with so much speed and volume that it took on the appearance of a fountain.

The purpose of our project in the form of a drawing is to represent the life of Janie Mae Crawford. The image of the world shaped like a heart has both a light side and a dark side. In general, the world is in the shape of a heart to show how Janie views her world: completely involved in the concept of love. Janie, constantly encompassed within goals of finding and understanding love, views the world as a giant melting pot of love, and all she has to do is travel the planet to find it. The light side of the planet demonstrates her hopes and dreams of finding her true love, searching for it with optimism and joy in believing that her love is out there somewhere, and it will satisfy her. However, the shaded, dark side of the planet represents

In ‘The meatworks’ Gray presents a vivid and disturbing description of a North Coast slaughter house. It demonstrates Roberts’s concern of the cruelty and indifference of humankind’s relationship with nature. Sensory imagery is one of the strongest techniques used by the poet.

In literature, red is often associated with blood and violence. Four researchers, Erella Hovers, Shimon Ilani, Ofer Bar-Yosef, and Bernard Vandermeersch, studied colored symbolism and concluded; “Color symbolism is one of the symbolic frameworks used extensively by contemporary societies to convey information and abstract messages through material objects” (Hovers et al.,2003.) Through the use of colors, May vividly expresses the emotions of the speaker towards society, regarding the topics of warfare and education. He specifically selects certain colors, like black and red, to stir up emotions within Jontae. The colors create a symbolic image, ultimately leading up to represent the violent scenes taking place. May writes his fear; “I know how often red is the only color left to reach” (18-19), to show his apprehension for Jontae a young male in society surrounded by warfare. Red in literature often represents blood, sacrifice, and violence. Using colors throughout the poem, creates a more vehement atmosphere, in which Jontae is left to choose between warfare, and discovering his identity in an alternative

Not excluding death.” (p 136) McCarthy also uses this connection of blood and nature to produce an feeling of something is slowly dying as the novel progresses: “The sun to the west lay blood red among the shelving clouds and the distant cordilleras ranged down the terminals of the sky to fade from pale to pale of blue and then to nothing at all” (p.59) This is a representation of John Grady’s dying childhood. His decision to embark in this journey is partly due to the fact that his relationship with his family was distant; he and his fathers seemed like more like merchants, their talk was nothing but business. John Grady went out in search not only for love of land and beast but also love of people.

Orr uses imagery to show the reader that events can mentally scar one’s memory, in which a person vividly remembers that moment perfectly. To do this Orr uses lots of descriptive words and phrases that bring the reader to visualize the scene of the poem. An example is, "the dark stain already seeping across his parka hood"(2). The speaker has this image implanted in his mind, because it is the first thing that he sees right after he has shot his brother. As one reads this line, they can picture the image of blood seeping through the material of the hood in their mind, making them feel as if they are standing there with him. In addition, Orr uses the imagery of death throughout the poem. By writing, “In the bowl, among the vegetable chunks / pale shapes of the alphabet bobbed at random or lay in the shallow spoon” (15-17). The speaker is visualizing the pale deceased

In “All the Pretty Horses’ By Cormac McCarthy, blood symbolizes all the pain and suffering that John goes through to protect everything that he loves. This is a recurring symbol throughout the whole book and depicts all of the suffering and pain that John has to endure. In this

The Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West is a novel written by an author of the name Cormac McCarthy. Cormac McCarthy wrote this to show a runaway teenager’s perspective on living during the late 1840s. Throughout this novel, McCarthy shows the reader the feeling of being in hell and describing a kid’s journey through hell. This eye-opening novel takes place in Mexico and the American Southwest, Circa. This historical fiction novel is surprisingly accurate when describing the events that occurred during the situations in the Southwestern U.S. and Mexico around the 1850. The Blood Meridian contains tons of bloody events that build up to the subjugation of the Apaches and the southwestern expansion of the United States of

In both of these examples, the color red represents the stain of immorality that has tainted Dorian’s soul. Even if Dorian tries to return to a life of innocence, the blemish that sin and hedonism has brought upon his soul, and their scarring influence, will always affect him. There is an underlying feeling of the red consuming and tainting his purity, and of not being able to return to light after being overtaken by

MacNeice’s use of allusions/diction portrays the idea of corruption and impurity. These include a “bloodsucking