The legends of Krishna respond to many profound social and spiritual needs. Love is the vital force of Vishnuism. In the Hindu tradition, there is a link between love and the color blue, so God Vishnu and Krishna have represented the blue. "Blue is the color of Krishna and Vishnu. Blue is worn by a woman going to see her lover at night" Lakshmi, a female counterpart, a symbol of beauty and good fortune, represented by the rise of a red lotus.
The scarlet letter shows a symbol of shame but instead conveys the opposite and shows who hester truly is. Her true identity and how strong she truly is. The meteor, to Dimmesdale meant that he should wear a scarlet letter too just like hester. The puritan community thinks it stands for “angel”, and is there because the governor died. Pearl shows a symbol of adultery and sin because she leads Hester and Dimmesdale to accept their sins even with her demon like traits pearl just wanted
This opposition is made more clear, perhaps, when one considers the simultaneity of the Islamic Revolution with women’s liberation movements in the U.S. and Europe, both developing throughout the 1970s.” 4b.) Neshats hidden messages are the chador that represents power. The writing on her face is a Farsi poem that expresses deep piety. The guns represent this division between what femininity means in both cultures. This picture embodies a Iranian woman and dismisses misconceptions of her faith.
Red, a passionate color, represents sin within The Bible. Hester creates a red embroidered A that will depict her sin of adultery; “..I happened to place it on my breast..It seemed to me then, that I experienced a sensation not altogether physical, yet almost so, as of a burning heat; and as if the letter were not of red cloth, but red-hot iron. I shuddered, and involuntarily let it fall upon the floor.” (Hawthorne 31). This A is shown upon her breast as a symbol of her owning up to her sin and setting herself aside from the puritan society. Hawthorne uses this symbol to create a theme throughout the
Is she really evil or does she just simply want a perfect, pleasant life? In this short story, Miss Adela Strangeworth is an elegant seventy-one year-old lady noticeable with her dainty walk and her rustling skirts. The connection between the roses and her wishes for perfection is introduced earlier in the story, where it is stated that Miss Strangeworth never gives away the roses that her grandmother planted as she believes that "The roses belonged on Pleasant Street, and it bothered {her*} to think of people wanting to carry them away." (P.1, Par.3) Her red, pink, and white roses are always spoken of around her town and the tourists. Typically, red roses symbolize passion, pink roses symbolize gratitude and appreciation, and white roses symbolize purity and spirituality.
I placed the red sand at the bottom of the “box of earth” to represent all the blood that was taken by vampires as well as the death of the few characters in the book. I had chosen to use sand since it was dry and I could show that it was old. Along with the red sand, there are red and black roses placed at the bottom of the box. The pure red roses represent purity and cleanliness which the black roses represent evil and impurity. These roses symbolize the theme of “the threat of female expression” and sex.
Gift from God Blanche: White Stella: Star All the characters’ names represent the deeper meaning within the novel. For example Stanley meaning a “Dweller near a stony clearing” could represent how he had to work for everything in his life and that the stones are blocking his path. It could also show his rough, emotionless and primal personality due to the stone figure in his name. Music The Varsouviana polka music plays whenever Blanche is feeling remorse for Allen’s death. According to Blanche in Scene Nine, the music stops with the sound of a gunshot.
Given these points, the rose-bush in The Scarlet Letter symbolizes Hester’s passion and family and helps contrast the community with nature. The rose-bush in the beginning of the story helps represent Hester's passion
Krishna appears as an answer to Draupadi’s prayer, saving her from shame by miraculously extending her sari, the endless folds preventing the final satisfaction of the voyeuristic stares. The question of divine intervention usually takes priority in readings of the scene, which is rarely interpreted from a feminist perspective. In the novel, Panchaali deals with the shame of exposure by remembering Krishna’s advice; she finds
Today, however, the vast majority of performances only include two to five of the fourteen scenes . An actor who would like to undertake the role of Bhima, the protagonist of The Flower of Good Fortune, in the traditional Kathakali style would have to have an informed knowledge of the symbolic hand gestures, called hasta mudras, used to portray both thematic and literal elements in the piece itself. Emotions and actions, and also objects and abstract connotations are all represented by hasta mudras . Therefore, knowledge of the use of hasta mudras is crucial