The Visit By Friedrich Durrenmatt

For a story by an author to be signified as a classic literature piece, it requires a timeless feature which the main passage can echo throughout the ages. Particularly, a relation to society's behavior and values. The characters, created by Washington Irving, most especially Tom Walker, gives us an insight on how his life centered predominantly on wealth up to the point where he is consumed by temptation. Tom Walker’s engagement in a deal with the Devil portrays how money-driven society has become more prominent through the times of the 1700s and today's world.

For a lot of people gold means wealthy, In The glass Castle gold are used as hope and happiness and something to look forward to in the near future. The family held onto the thought that gold could give them something to be looking forward to whether it's the wedding ring or the glass castle it was valuable to them. "That was why we had to find gold. To get mom a new wedding ring. That and so we could build the Glass Castle" (Wells28). This example proves that gold symbolizes the one thing superior to look forward to during the difficult times. In conclusion, I feel like gold has a very strong importance to the Glass castle and the family.

Manny is golden because to her, he is perfect, even after the wrong he has done to her. The color gold is often associated with wealth. China's association with white and silver is very similar. White is considered pure and raw. That is exactly what China represents, along with strength.

One of the ways the death of the American Dream is demonstrated in the Great Gatsby is through “enchanted colors.” Yellow is the color of gold, and traditionally symbolizes wealth, beauty, and materialism. After Jay Gatsby becomes rich, with a mansion of his own, everything is yellow. Gatsby’s tie is yellow; his car is yellow, the buttons on Daisy’s dress are yellow. At one point in the novel, Nick Carraway even describes some flowers smelling like gold, as it states in chapter five, “...the sparkling odor of jonquils and the frothy odor of hawthorn and plum blossoms and the pale gold odor of kiss-me-at-the-gate.” All of these yellow and gold things suggest that the Jazz Age was a time in which materialism was the most important thing, and being wealthy was all that mattered. In the 1920’s, and still today, the American Dream was, and is, to be wealthy, and to attain something greater that almost seems out of reach.

Yellow being the color of gold, which symbolizes money, is an accurate representation of his wealth. The color yellow separates the rich individuals, such as Tom and Daisy, from the color green run-down individuals, such as Jay Gatsby. Gold and green used in the book thus contrastingly symbolize old wealth and new riches. The color yellow also represents positive and wealthy future which is why yellow is the center of a daisy. Tom’s greed for money is increasingly at peak throughout the book.

The color yellow and gold in The Great Gatsby symbolizes two different things, but having the same meaning at the end.Yellow can symbolise the flaws and corruptness of doing something. At the same time gold symbolizes richness, and the desire of winning or wanting something, but having failure at it or having false hope the end

The third most important symbol in “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” is the colors Guin uses to describe the city of Omelas. Guin uses green and gold the most to describe the city Omelas and its citizens. She also uses red, silver, white, and dark blue to help describe the city of Omelas. In “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” gold is used as a symbol for power and wealth, while green is used as a symbol for energy. Correspondingly “The horses wore no gear at all but a halter without a bit. Their manes were braided with streamers of silver, gold, and green” (Guin 1). As one can see by this quote green and gold are obvious, yet important symbols. Green and gold as symbols relate back to the citizens and the city of Omelas. Hence green and gold can lead the reader to find many themes they would not think of without these two very important symbols.

The author of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, reveals the issues of money, happiness, and the unattainable which separated the privileged and unprivileged. Fitzgerald hints to the reader numerous times of the issues of money and how it can ultimately affect a character's life. The main character of The Great Gatsby, demonstrate the struggle of the 20s and how somethings can be within arms reach but cannot be grasped. All throughout the novel, Jay Gatsby, struggles to keep, Daisy Buchanan, the woman he loves, happy enough. Due to the separation of money, Gatsby is identified as a man of “new money”, this makes it hard for Gatsby to achieve his dream of reuniting with Daisy. The color green is used to show Gatsby’s dream and how he struggles to obtain the unobtainable. He hints poverty and hopelessness through the color gray. The author presents the color white in order to expose the true nature of Daisy Buchanan and the privileges of living in the west egg. Fitzgerald uses colors to symbolize the inequality between social classes of the 1920s, ultimately proving that money does not guarantee happiness.

The colors gold and yellow are one of the clearest examples of misleading appearances. Gatsby flaunts his “new money” by throwing massive parties hoping to attract Daisy’s attention so she will come back to him. However, Gatsby is not old money like Daisy, and does not see the difference between him and her. Gatsby’s bigger purchases like his car and his house are both very flashy and ostentatious, which is not the way of “old money”. Gatsby's car is bright yellow and makes a statement, unlike Tom, Daisy’s husband’s car, which is blue. The fact that Gatsby’s car is also yellow proves that the does not see the difference between “old money” and “new money”. Gold and it's display is one of the strongest differences between old money and new money that creates the division of classiness and flashiness. Gold is a pure,

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, colors are one of the most important details in the book. Throughout the story Fitzgerald cleverly uses colors in order to focus on specific themes and characters. He wrote this book in a way where one can read it for pleasure, and where one could analyze it and truly appreciate the work that he has put into this book. Every color has a specific meaning which correlates with each of the characters. Specifically, gold represents wealth, high class, selfishness, and relationships; while white represents honesty, purity, innocence, and a symbol for surrendering.

The colour golden is spoken to in terms of time. He is comparing the value of time to the value of gold when he says "Golden...Time let me play" (313), and "Time...Golden in the mercy of his means" (313). He realizes the value of time now that he is older and no longer youthful. We can hear through his words that he wishes he could have cherished time as a child as he now cherishes and values it. He last uses the word golden in the past tense. The children are spoken of "before...golden" (313). As an adult he is no linger as powerful as he was as a child. "Golden" (313) time has forever taken him far away from his "childless land" (314).

A second focal point in the book is the importance of the color yellow. The effects of yellow or golden colored objects in the book highlight the second portion of Rousseau’s ideology, that the natural purity is only ruined by the outside world. Examining Gatsby’s character more closely, we can see that he is surrounded by gold references just as Daisy is surrounded by references to white. At the beginning of the book, when Nick is narrating his description of the party, there are two key references to illicit money: the more direct one being “dark gold” and the more subtle being an implication of this from the order in which the orchestral instruments are named. A black instrument such as an oboe is followed by a golden colored instrument like a saxophone and so on, leading the reader to think that the gold is dark, or as we find later, illicit in nature. This idea of dark gold has a direct correlation to the idea of societal practices tarnishing one’s inner purity. Gatsby, with his pure intentions, moved to the house just across the bay from Daisy, but took up bootlegging to make so much money so he could ostentatiously and deliberately exhibit it to everyone, with the hopes of catching Daisy’s eye. Eventually however, it was not the money that reunited Gatsby and Daisy, and out of this Gatsby

The colors gold and yellow carry symbolism for wealth in the Great Gatsby. Even though the two colors represent wealth, they both are a little different. Gold represents richer or more lavish things, whereas yellow represents newer wealth or not as valuable. Yellow is used many times in the novel to describe certain objects. For example, many structures are described in yellow like the building on the edge of the valley of ashes or some window panes. Also, during one of Gatsby’s parties, the music is described as yellow cocktail music, Gatsby’s car is also yellow. Gold is used to describe people like Jordan Baker who is not as rich as many characters like

Booked into custody and physical injury are extortions no longer, of almost all circumstances, he can bribe his way out? Yet, if whatever thing, Candide is much dissatisfied and doomed as a rich man. The possibility of seeing his money drop away into the hands of unprincipled merchants and officials puts his hopefulness in a trial in a way that no extent of flogging could. In fact, when Vanderdendur frauds him, seems to hit Candide’s optimism an all-time low; at this point it is that he selects Martin as his traveling companion who is pessimist. Candide’s wealth appeals untrue friends persistently. He could not praise great piece of art because Count Pococurante’s money pushes him to such discontented monotony. As terrible as the poverty and oppression that disease the poor and weak may be, it is obvious that money—and the power that goes with it—makes at least as many difficulties as it

Scott Fitzgerald’s use of characterization and symbolism in The Great Gatsby denounces the superficial nature of the Roaring 20s and by doing so demonstrates the threat of materialism. First, through Tom and Daisy Buchanan’s wealth and lack of hard work to achieve their status exposes their lack of purpose. As a result, they attempt to occupy their boredom through their lavish lifestyle, but instead creates problems that they are immune to and exhibits their power-hungry personalities. Thus, good hearted people such as Gatsby is forced into becoming a materialistic man in order to achieve his American Dream of acquiring Daisy. Nonetheless, Gatsby’s disregard and sacrifice towards his identity and moral values only creates a fake representation of himself. In this manner, the use of the color yellow to decorate one’s self only represents that they are not the real deal and that they will never attain the gold, which symbolizes real wealth and prosperity. This sets a boundary between the old rich, the new money, and the lower class who will never be able to integrate within the gold-standard club. In this way, Fitzgerald denounces that on the surface the Roaring 20s is a synonym to prosperity, however beneath this cover, the American Dream has lost its values due to people’s lack of integrity, dignity, and