The White Peacock

A pure white peacock is not exactly subtle metaphor, but it is certainly a memorable one. Which is suitable considering Toni Morrison did not write it into Song of Solomon for giggles. The white peacock represents how materialism prevents flight, or more accurately freedom.This theme is more thoroughly elaborated on with Milkman’s development, as demonstrated by what happened after his first attempt to steal gold. Due to a chance detail Milkman shared with his father, a mad story about a murder and stolen gold was revealed. With Macon II convinced that Pilate has the gold, he ordered his son, he, in turn, recruited Guitar, to steal the gold. Upon Milkman and Guitar’s attempted getaway they were stopped by the police, where they were forced…

After reading the second section of the book I feel bad for Shivana. She is willing to do anything to get an abortion and she is extremely desperate. When she meets the cab driver she engages in sex with him just to make more money. She then has a breakdown because she realizes there will be consequences when she goes home and her mom finds out that she is pregnant. Another example of when Shivana is desperate is in this quote “Jump on my stomach and make me lose this shit.” She is willing to…

scene is described in the book as: “Life, safety, and luxury fanned out before him like the tail-spread of a peacock…” (Morrison 170). From here, it refers to a bird, whose species is associated with flight but whose breed has difficulty to do so. The bird is used to emulate the slow evolution of the element of flight within the text. Toni Morrison uses the tail-spread of peacock as a magic element and this is a simile that indirectly implied the contentment gained from wealth is not permanent…

In the study, college students in the southern part of the United States were shown a color on a computer screen and asked to give their emotional response to each color. The results found that principal hues (e.g., red, blue, green, etc.) were rated 80% positively. The results also showed that achromatic colors (e.g., white, black, and grey) were rated positively only 29.2% of the time. Green was the most positively rated color and participants associated green with nature and soothing…

Fitzgerald associates Daisy with the color white, but to wear white is to be “an absolute little dream” (Schneider 2). Nick discovers white is a corrupt mixture of dream and reality (Schneider 3). To Gatsby, white is not pure, but it is inevitably stained by money. Daisy is a white flower with a golden center. In The Great Gatsby gold, along with silver symbolizes the dream and the reality. When Nick first sees Daisy, he notes they are “like silver idols weighing down their own white dresses…”…

to keep his promise. If he would have left earlier would have had a broader choice of stalls to look for something. In “Fern Hill,” Thomas uses color to evoke certain feelings; metaphors such as “lamb white days,” “green and carefree,” and “Golden in the heydays of his eyes” are sprinkled throughout (lines 46, 10, 5). How is color used in this poem? In “Fern Hill” by Dylan Thomas he uses colors for different meanings like in line 15 where it reads, “And in green and golden I was huntsman and…

Most of these shapes are formed with the use of shifts in color and lines. For example, Sophia’s white hair is formed by the use of a shift from the black background and her darker checkered body. Consequently. both lines and shift in color are implied at the same time as it creates shapes in the artwork. In this artwork, the light source is not seen. On the other hand, the light source is placed in the left of the artwork. This is presented when Minter uses the black Ben-Day dots overlaying…

color “white” in both Sonnet 12 and 99 represents one of Shakespeare’s most prominent themes: the inevitable concept of time, in Sonnet 12, the narrator, reflects that the only defense against Time’s scythe is having children (leaving behind a legacy), while in Sonnet 99, the narrator condemns four different types of flowers for stealing attributes of his beloved (the Lilies stole the whiteness of his beloved’s hand, for example). In Sonnet 12, the narrator uses the color “white” to represent…

1). This shows us the general acknowledgement for golds association with riches. Gold can be seen as a very influential color in The Great Gatsby, because of the multitude of rich characters within the story. Gold is one of the most symbolic colors used in The Great Gatsby. Another symbolic color in The Great Gatsby is the color white. Throughout history, the color white has been used as a symbol of purity and good morals. According to Huber, “White stands for morally unblemished,…

The painting shows the Virgin and a child with blue glass background and a white light over them. This painting is made out of casein which is a protein from cheese and milk, which is popular in Italian artwork. Sister Mercedes title of the painting has vivid understanding on what the artwork is trying to express. This painting Madonna and child Blue has a very vivid focal point which is the light that starts out dull and brightens up as it reaches Child Blue. That white light draws your…