Yellow In Crime And Punishment

One would often think of wealth or a high social status. However, it can be closely associated with Autumn leaves which die and decay. Therefore, yellow also symbolizes death and decay. Gatsby buys a yellow car to show Daisy he is wealthy now and that she will not lose her social status if she marries him. One day, Daisy is driving Gatsby’s car back home with him, “The ‘death car’ as the newspapers called it, didn’t stop; it came out of the gathering darkness, wavered tragically for a moment and then disappeared around the next bend” (Fitzgerald 144). The car was Gatsby’s yellow car that ran over and killed Myrtle Wilson. The author uses the color yellow to foreshadow death nearby. Another day, Gatsby was walking to his pool with a pneumatic mattress in hand, “Once he stopped and shifted it a little and the chauffeur asked him if he needed help, but he shook his head and in a moment disappeared among the yellowing trees” (Fitzgerald 169). This happens right before Gatsby is shot and killed by Mr. George Wilson. The note of yellowing trees foreshadows Gatsby’s death. The color yellow is used in “The Great Gatsby” to symbolize materialism and death. Fitzgerald uses colors to foreshadow events and hint at a larger meaning of an object.

The color yellow can be connected with the symbolism of greed, desire for wealth, and “old money”. Corruption is also distinctly represented by yellow, but death is also a key to yellows dark symbolism. The color yellow can be seen around a tragic death. The first time this is seen is when Myrtle is killed. She is the mistress of Tom, and is also married to a man named George Wilson. Myrtle was killed by Gatsby’s yellow Rolls Royce, in front of her yellow brick house, and under the yellow spectacled eyes of Dr.

The Walls wear dirty clothes and doesn’t have much money to do laundry most of the time. “We loaded our dirty clothes into pillowcases and lugged them down the hill and up Stewart Street” (Walls 177). This is the first time in months they get to go to the laundromat and clean their clothes without Rex. Even though their clothes were clean other kids made fun of their living style. “‘Garbage! You live in garbage ‘cause you are garbage!’’’ (Walls 165). This describe how poor their living condition is and it hurt Jeannette, but she try to make the house more cheerful by painting the house yellow.

The text is very descriptive and loaded with symbols. The author takes the opportunity to relate elements of setting with symbols with meanings beyond the first reading’s impressions. The house that the characters rent for the summer as well as the surrounding scenery are introduced right from the beginning. It is an isolated house, situated "quite three miles from the village"(947); this location suggests an isolated environment. Because of its "colonial mansion"(946) look, and its age and state of degradation, of the house, a supernatural hypothesis is implied: the place is haunted by ghosts. This description also suggests stability, strength, power and control. It symbolizes the patriarchal oriented society of the author’s time. The image of a haunted house is curiously superimposed with light color elements of setting: a "delicious garden"(947), "velvet meadows"(950), "old-fashioned flowers, and bushes and gnarly trees"(948) suggest bright green. The room has "air and sunshine galore"(947), the garden is "large and shady"(947) and has "deep-shaded arbors"(948). The unclean yellow of the wallpaper is

Fortunately, a “bunch of huge wooden spools, the kind that hold industrial cable, had been dumbed on the side of the tracks not far from [the] house, so [they] rolled them home and turned them into tables” (Walls 51). Although it isn’t the most conventional method of furnishing a house, the Walls are inventive. On the other hand the thought of the spools being dumped out by the rail way and not utilized by another family hint that the spools were likely rotten or termite infected. Hence, the idea of these materials being family furnishings portrays the depth of poverty that the Walls’ were in. At the same time Jeannette establishes an atmosphere throughout the novel of an unsatisfactory, endless period of destitution. She makes the best of a bad situation although repeatedly forgoes every opportunity to ascend in social and financial

In both short stories, symbolism is used to portray the impending doom on the characters’ physical state. This idea is clearly presented in “The Yellow Wallpaper” by the image of the bed being nailed down to the ground and how that reflects her isolation in the room. In the beginning of the story, the narrator despises the room she is confined in. She is stuck in the room day in and day out - all day “[she] lies here on this great immovable bed -it is nailed down” (p.337). The significance of the bed being nailed down and immovable plays a great role in the narrator’s physical state: it signifies how the narrator is immovable and can not leave the room. Just like the bed, the narrator is hypothetically nailed down to the ground, unable to leave or rather do anything without the permission of her husband. Another example of this takes place in “The Jade Peony” with the bamboo shoots dying of the cold, just like the grandma. The whole household are strong believers of signs, so after the death of the grandma her son went to her garden to look for a sign. He then “looked at the frost-killed shoots and cringed: no, that can not be it” (p.109). From this point on we are given a hint of how the grandma will die, which is an important detail for further understanding the character’s physical state. For instance, while understanding the cold killing the bamboo shoots, the son then realizes that something his mother loved and cared for dearly died of the same way. Overall, the two short stories share the impending doom of the character’s physical state through symbolism. Given

Throughout the whole novel, Zamyatin uses the color yellow to symbolize complexity and rebellion, which are qualities from the primitive and ancient world, that United State tries to suppress. One of the main ways Zamyatin uses this color is in connection to I-330, who is the second main female character that is introduced into the book and D-503’s first love interest. The first time I-330’s association with yellow appeared in this story is in Record Six, when D-503 visited I-330 for the first time at the Ancient House, the only building in the entire society that is not made out of glass. In this scene, I-330 went to a room and came out “dressed in short, bright-yellowish dress, black hat, black stockings” (28). The bright yellow dress described in this scene is a relic from ancient times, before the “Green Wall” was built and two-hundred year war occured.

So Sasha, on a monetary loan from a concerned friend, is visiting Paris for the second time in her life. Sasha has never been able to properly afford such extravagance and takes the chance here that is given to her. When she arrives her friend has set her up in a room that Sasha describes as “dark . . . [with] red curtains.” (12) Sasha feels insulted by this and continues on to say that the room is covered in dark specs which she sees as insects and dirt. This image reflects the hopelessness of Sasha’s situation because she feels that the specs reflect her life.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of the most recognized American novels. The love-story relates and molds itself into the prominent era of Prohibition, and bases itself off the drunken and impetus glory of the American culture. Fitzgerald’s writing plays with the complex and intricate meaning; his magnificent descriptions, metaphors, and character development beam through the pages of the novel. While looking into his descriptions and symbolism, Fitzgerald resorts into regarding the use of color in the story as a form of structure for symbolism. The use of the color Blue, White, and Yellow are prominent components

While reading, the reader can notice how the author continuously uses the color yellow as symbolism. We can see that in the color of Gatsby’s car. In addition, we can see it in Doctor T.J. Eckleburg’s glasses and we can see it in Myrtle Wilson’s eyes.

In the novel “Crime and Punishment”, the author, Fyodor Dostoevsky gives the reader a glimpse into the mind of a tormented criminal, by his guilt of a murder. Dostoevsky’s main focal point of the novel doesn’t lie within the crime nor the punishment but within the self-conflicting battle of a man and his guilty conscience. The author portrays tone by mood manipulation and with the use of descriptive diction to better express his perspective in the story, bringing the reader into the mind of the murderer.

We can observe the selection of blue color symbolizing melancholy in these scenes. Also, during the film, another color scene, this time yellow, can be seen, reflecting madness, insecurity, and obsessive by these scenes in the jury and streets. The catastrophic events, scenography and audio incremented the tension of every scene and complemented the facial expressions in the characters, creating a circle of the dramatic tension in the movie.

Color brings in a certain mood for instance blue could mean cold or scared. This scene is yellow toned which gives it a vintage vibe rather than the rest of the film which is blue toned which is cold, scary sterile. The scene is of Vincent as a child, his parents are dressed in a more 1950s style but with modern technology. I think the use of color makes sets the scene as homelier. A lot of horror films use blue as the main color when things are “scary” and then the next scene they use yellow to make the scarier scenes seem scarier.

Roy links yellow to disgust, which creates a sense of foreboding in the reader’s mine when Estha first meets the Orangedrinklemondrink man who later molests him. Objects meant to disgust the reader are associated early on with the color in yellow in phrases like, “[Baby Kochamma] was wearing a limp checked seersucker nightgown with puffed sleeves and yellow turmeric stains.” and, “A yellow brook burbles through a mountain pass”. Later, when Estha meets the Orangedrinklemondrink for the first time, the scene is bathed in yellow, which mirrors Estha’s disgust. His teeth are, “ like yellow piano keys”, and the man’s name is usually forgone is favor of referring to him by his teeth. Even before Etha is molested, the author uses a tone of foreboding by introducing the color yellow.

In “It gleamed on the woman's yellow hair, over her flapping pinafore and the rifle she was carrying. The child hid behind her, and the yellow dog, a mangy beast, scuttled back into the whare”, the woman is shown to be protective, proved by her rifle as the travellers approach. We also do not know her name. The child is hidden and could be described as timid and/or unwilling to form relationships with strangers. Lastly, there is the yellow dog, which is not described as domesticated, but rather a ferocious animal. The colour yellow could be used to portray a sickly vision of the characters. These small phrases all subtly show certain traits of the characters without telling them to us, showing a certain display of language skills by Mansfield while in the meantime demonstrating the underlining strangeness of the