Symbols
Symbols are objects, animals, people, figures, colors, etc. used to represent abstract ideas or concepts related to the main themes.
Symbols are objects, animals, people, figures, colors, etc. used to represent abstract ideas or concepts related to the main themes.
The heart is an old symbol meaning the organ pumping blood as well as union and togetherness and especially sexual love and affection. The heart sign appears as a symbol in all the major cultural spheres. In the Christian trilogy of faith, hope and charity stands for charity and hope. It also appears with a religious or positive meaning among Aztecs, Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, Jews, Celts, and Taoists. In ancient Greece the heart sign (together with the flower) was related to , the lyre, the attribute of Eros, the god of sexual love, around 600-400 B.C. Later, the attribute of Greek Eros, his Roman counterpart Amor, and even Cupid (Latin = desire) was changed to the bow and arrow.
I just wanted to share a beautiful quote by C.S.Lewis,my favourite writer ,about Symbols:
“Symbols are the natural speech of the soul,
a language older and more universal than words”.
Finding out that a colour can also be a symbol, I wondered what can the green colour means (it is pretty used in this site, and is also my favourite colour).
“Green” is related to the old English word growan, to grow. We use it to refer to plants or oceans but it also can describe an inexperienced person, jealous or sick, and even money (if we are in America). There are also some idiomatic expressions, as “green around the gills” (which describes a person who looks unwell), derived from the meanings of this word.
In “Mrs. Dalloway” by Virginia Woolf, Septimus Warren Smith fall in love with a character from Waterloo Road, Miss Isabel Pole, dressed in a green dress.
In some cultures green colour symbolize hope, while in others is associated with death, sickness. For Septimus it can symbolize either hope for a better life without doctors who can not cure anything, or the approaching death, not wanted but seen as the only way to escape.
Concerning symbolic colours, We musn’t forget that yellow express bad luck on stage. Personally I have never believed in such things, but there it is.