Symbolism In The Wizard Of Oz

F. Scott Fitzgerald uses color imagery in his novel, “The Great Gatsby” to convey themes and influence emotions. The color green is symbolic of Gatsby’s hopes and dreams. White represents Daisy’s pure, yet selfish mind. Lastly, the color yellow foreshadows wealth and decay. Humans unknowingly associate feelings with colors. The idea of color description is used by authors to set the mood or evoke certain emotions in the

In the story, gray is brought up many times. War, like the color gray, is dull and depressing. War distorts humanity, making everything civil seem to vanish. Bierce uses the color gray to convey this message. Bierce writes, “-a gray-clad soldier rode up to the gate and asked for a drink of water. Mrs. Fahrquhar was only too happy to serve him with her own white hands” (Bierce 2). This man, appears to be a confederate, hence the gray-clad uniform he is wearing. But this man is actually a Federal scout. The color gray made him seem trustworthy and on the same side of the war as Fahrquhar. This scout knows Fahrquhar is a southern plantation owner and decides to try convincing him to commit a crime. The crime of burning down a Union bridge. The scout does this so Federal soldiers could catch Fahrquhar and hang him. A scout wearing a gray uniform in hope of hanging a regular southern man is an act of complete inhumanity. This scout would not have done this if war was not present. This example just shows war brings out the monster in people. The color gray allows this scout to accomplish

The standard color wheel puts blue to the right which correlates with the direction of the East. Yellow is to the left on the color wheel which correlates in same direction as the West. Symbolic associations affect emotions and we're chosen particularly to create direct and indirect perceptions that help create the essence of the story for the audience. The creator of The Wizard of Oz uses the significance of color combined with the significance of symbols to guide the readers attention to details or charactors is used to influence & engage the reader through the journey by influencing perceptions of charactors and psychological associations necessary to follow the plot. Experiencing the yellow brick road & the concept of a rainbow communicates better days ahead, hope & optimism. That hope led Dorothy to become stronger for the difficulties she had to overcome & overall empowered her rather then portraying her as a Daniel in distress. The yellow brick road creates the direction of Dorothy's dreams of a better happy place in contrast to home in dreary dark and white

Grey is the color that’s everywhere among the valley implies the unfaithful condition of those people who lives there. Under the circumstance of that time, people cannot override these obstacles to be successful; therefore the American Dream is not achievable for them since the poor’ have no opportunities to progress their will. In addition when Tom told Wilson, Gatsby killed his wife in the valley of ashes. “Wilson’s glazed eyes turned out to the ashheaps, where small grey clouds took on fantastic shape and scurried here and there in the faint dawn wind”(Fitzgerald 167). Through Wilson’s grey eyes once it again proves the dilemma people have to go through. Meanwhile Tom in this case represents the corrupted one utilizing Wilson as a tool to go against Gatsby. By applying the color grey it shows the hopeless of the poor and spreading the corruption among people. Furthermore, when Nick and Tom went to Gatsby’s party, they gathered and talk about the surrounding of Gatsby’s mansion. “It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with grey turning, gold turning light” (Fitzgerald 159). Both two colors gold and grey are being implied. Gold means the wealth, grey in another hand means the depravity that exists among the wealth. Fitzgerald used grey and gold describe Gatsby’s house since he is rich in a way, but he got his money from a unregulated way, which shows among the

Color throughout history has been used to represent a variety of things. From social class to individuality, color has played an important role in identifying people or objects. Color holds a great amount of symbolic value, not only in real world situations but also in novels and visual art. Much like how color in the real world can demonstrate wealth or style, color within The Great Gatsby symbolizes important factors of the text. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses color in association with characters, objects and the world in order to give the text deeper, symbolic meaning.

Colors are an essential part of the world around us. They can convey messages, expressing that which words do not. Gentle blue tones can calm a person and bright yellows can lift the spirits. If an artist is trying to express sorrow or death he often uses blacks blues, and grays basically he uses dreary colors. Without one word, a driver approaching a red traffic light knows to stop. Colors are representative of many things. In his novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses color symbolism throughout as a major device in thematic and character development. He uses colors to symbolize the many different intangible ideas in the book. Throughout the book characters, places, and objects are given "life" by colors, especially the more

The novel Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding is a very iconic book in my opinion. This novel consists mostly of symbolism. Lord of the Flies talked about the relationship of teenage boys who survived a plane crash together. The boys are all on their own and struggling. They encounter many incidences that comply symbolism. A couple of the acts of symbolism are the beast the boys kept imagining, Piggy’s glasses, and the conch. The boys are all afraid of the beast, Piggy’s glasses demonstrate the fact that he saw everything more clear then the boys and how he started the fire. Lastly, the last of the most important symbolisms in the novel is the conch, showing the civilization and order.

Firstly, the symbolism of colour plays a major role in expressing various emotions throughout the story. In the beginning, Dorothy sees “nothing but the great grey prairie on every side” (Baum 3); surround by grey Dorothy feels drained and unhappy. Kandinsky a Russian painter and art theorist sates “it is soundless and motionless… grey expresses a hopeless stillness” the greyness of her home life emphasizes how boring the real world can seem at times. In contrast, the Land of Oz is full of bright vivid colours and “beautiful sights” (Baum 7) representing a dream world full of adventure and excitement. As Dorothy arrives in Oz she is

Colors are very apparent in The Great Gatsby. They often show up as descriptions to many important items throughout the book, and make those items resemble symbols. The color white confuses the reader, and often causes him/her to rethink their logic. It describes false purity and deception within something, which is very apparent in the character Daisy in this novel. The color grey gives the reader a comparison, and that is of humans to machines. Something that is lifeless is described as grey. After that, there is the final color of blue, something that is very dreamy. This is mostly associated with the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg but is also seen in other things as well. The colors white, grey, and blue cause the reader to rethink this whole book, and are associated with the most important symbols, in this novel. It is colors that truly make The Great Gatsby, a marvelous book to read.

F. Scott Fitzgerald creatively utilizes colors throughout his novel, The Great Gatsby, not only to provide the reader with a rich visual image of the scene taking place, but also to convey certain symbols within the story. To begin with, one must understand what each color symbolizes. Green symbolizes hope, blue symbolizes illusion, red means violence or love, yellow illustrates wealth or death, white is innocence, and gray or black symbolizes corruption. The reader can see that color symbolism is used to characterize Tom Buchanan. Another character, Daisy Buchanan, is also associated with a few different colors. The usage of colors in The Great Gatsby conveys many ideas―personalities of the characters, foreshadowing, events in the story,

The color gray not only suggests a dull quality in the men’s life, but it reflects the idea of blurred moral lines and no direction. The clouds are gray, the smoke in the farmer’s house is gray, and in the dying daylight the monochrome of the ground and sky is gray. The gray smoke in the farmer’s house reflects the men’s disorienting experiences there that lead to further destruction, such as Kenny’s wound that results from confusion over the farmer’s request for Kenny to shoot the dog and the farmer’s specific directions that only bring the men further into the gloom of the night and leave them stranded when Tub forgets the piece of paper in a tavern. The monochromatic gray color of the landscape only further represents the unkind world for these men, leaving them to create the boundaries for themselves.

The color gray exemplifies the lifelessness of The valley of ashes, an area populated by inhabitants who are unable to pursue the American dream of a wealthy life. Despite all his hard work, George Wilson, a boring man, is powerless in his ability to escape the valley of ashes due to the lack of business at the car garage and unsupportive wife. Due to Wilson’s low social standing, he lives in “... the valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the

An author's usage of color imagery can reveal character’s mood, thoughts, and convey messages. Fitzgerald use of color imagery in “The Great Gatsby” is prominent throughout the novel. The major colors used included green, white, red, yellow, blue, and grey. These colors act as symbols and each color symbolizes a person’s inner thoughts or feelings. The significance of each of these different colors help contribute to the meaning of theme.

Many colors are represented and shown throughout the story The Great Gatsby. These color each represent small details and even big details. They are shown as important details to the story and how they are portrayed by the reader. Each color is portrayed in a character, idea or even a event that takes place. The color symbolism in The Great Gatsby is represented by the colors green, black, and purple.

The color gray is referenced in the beginning of the story. Gray is used repetitively to describe the setting in Kansas, their home and it is even used to portray the characters of Aunt Em and Uncle Henry. Kansas was not exciting, there were no other homes and not even a tree in sight. “When Dorothy stood in the doorway and looked around, she could see nothing but the great gray prairie on every side” (Baum 13). Baum describes the farmhouse as “dull and gray as everything else”. Aunt Em’s eyes, cheeks and lips were even depicted as gray. Uncle Henry’s beard and boots were gray and he sat on the door-step looking at the sky that was “grayer than usual” (Baum 14). Gray was also used to show the character’s feelings. Aunt Em was worried and Uncle Henry was tired from working. Life was already “gray”, gloomy and depressing and then the cyclone hit.