How is it going to all who choose to read my blogs, I hope that
mental answer is good!
After reading the directions
of this week I was quite excited all to the sole fact of this week’s topic, and
this topic my friends is symbolism. I like symbolism or the idea of symbolism
because it looks beyond the superficial things of the world/society. I click
with the idea of symbolism quite easily do to my great obsession with comic
books and anime for as long as I can remember. In comics, a person usually
reads about a super hero. Superficially a superhero is just a hero on steroids,
that is someone who “saves the day" but looking at the hero symbolically
they are symbolic for justice and altruism. This is the opposite for villains.
What gets me going even more when a person looks at it in an even bigger
picture everyone wants a good battle of good versus evil but they want good to
always prevail. When it comes to heroes down to it the hero always beats the villain.
Which ties into the comic makers giving into what the society wants which is good
prevailing.
This solidifies the reason
why I love the literary element symbolism because symbolism can apply to everything
in life and society, such as the typical modern family. Fathers for instance in
the nuclear family are considered the paternal birthing unit but symbolically a
father is a person of structure and security. This also can apply to mothers of
a nuclear family. Mothers are superficially considered the maternal birthing unit,
but symbolically they are the unspoken care givers and nourish the environment
for eloquent minds.
John Steinbeck’s “The
Chrysanthemums” is a perfect example of symbolism. At a first superficial glance,
the text is just about an apparently beautiful lady tending to chrysanthemums.
Looking at the text symbolically reveals that the chrysanthemums and the
woman attending to them are connected in much deeper way. The woman
attending to the chrysanthemums at first glance looks fragile and at that time
period very weak due to her female biology (society view of woman at that
time). The woman is very similar to the chrysanthemums in that way looking
fragile and dainty, but actually when a person take a closer
look the woman is putting a "man's effort” into tending the
chrysanthemums showing she is quite tough deep on the inside just as the
chrysanthemums are touch at the roots but aren’t seen. Once the woman goes inside
after talking to a visitor she looks dirty and worn, the woman begins to wash
them vigorously to return to her pristine sate as how society wanted woman to
be. Once clean the woman walks around puffing out her chest like a man.
To me this seeming strange behavior, pose of inner conflict within her, the
conflict in her maintaining society’s view how woman should be or her pursing her
aspirations to be touch and wild.
To me symbolism is
a comparison of two things that eventually brought to an underlying concept. I’ve
begun researching central ideas of symbolism of people, organizations and even
bed stories. Anything, no matter how diverse those aspects of society may be.
Once again that is
all for now fellow bloggers. Till next time cheers
Cheers!
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