论了不起的盖茨比中的象征主义英语论文(4)

Chapter One Symbolism of colors

A Green

People often associated the color green with youth ，spring ，hope，however，in this novel，the color green was shown by the author in a different meaning，the green light on another side of the seashore is the main symbolism in this novel，Gatsby ’s faith is in the green light, it was his future wonderland and the biggest dream in his life. In the evening, Gatsby always stood by himself staring at the green light and open his arm to embrace the green light. The green light is youth and love for Gatsby ,as if the embodiment of Daisy. Although these things are beyond his ability to achieve，Gatsby still put all his effort to pursue his unpractical dream. Gatsby hold parties every weekend in his cottage entertain those visitors with courtesy and warmth in order to catch the attention of Daisy. He wants to flaunt his wealthy and the high social position. He wants to prove that he has all the things Daisy want including wealthy and love, so he can flaunt his wealthy to catch the attention of Daisy. But Gatsby ignores the most important factor that the love established from money and high social status cannot last long , what he got nothing but hypocrisy from Daisy . the “American dream” of Gatsby is going into a wrung direction at the beginning of he started, and this mistake leads to Gatsby’s tragic fate. Finally ,he sacrifices his life for Daisy and his unpractical dream. At the end of this novel, nick remember the green light which Gatsby trusted, the light looks like not far to reach, but you cannot get it forever .his aim seems aspirational rather than feasible .his dream has gradually gone. Green usually stands for the warm spring, trust, and activity and young. American dollar bills are also Green. The green light also means expectation in this novel. It is closely associated with Gatsby and his unachievable

dream in the fiction. In our real life, green lamp is the symbol of money and power ，it seems like money and social position can do everything， which is also the hope of American in 20thcentury. In the fiction, green can be seen in every step in Gatsby’s life. The color green indicates money and power and social position also stands for his hope, trust and belief---all those things put together into one object: Daisy.

The image of green lamp showed in the novel three times correspondingly at the very important points of the plot’s development in this novel, and plays a vital and very function in the course of developing the protagonist Gatsby’s character. The green light stands for the expectation of Gatsby, and the most important object in this novel is also the color green, which stands at the end of the port of the Daisy’s house. Every time when he watches the green lamp, there is a aspiration in his deep heart that he can acquire the love of Daisy we need to discuss what is English learning ,English learning actually is a kind of ability ,not for exam ,is for society ,is for real life ,which is another way of saying we should regard English as a tool to help you express your thought ,you need to use the English ,so you can get a good score ,and listening is the most important part of English learning ,try to imagine how a newly born baby started to learn a language ,listening, right? at first a baby can hear some voice which is meaningless to the baby ,but with the same voice began to accumulate ,and thousands of time practice ,somehow the baby understand the meaning of the voice ,gradually a baby began to know how to use those meaningful voice !so we can get a conclusion that if you want learning English well you need pay great attention on listening ,because this is the most basic part ,and anther thing is accumulate ,that is the secret of English learning!

The light is so weak and can’t be seen easily almost imperceptible the week light just like his unachievable dream can never be powerful enough to exemplify Gatsby, but the light shines every night and every day, just like his dream for Daisy is never quenchable. It is appropriate to compare his action to a certain pilgrim.

At the end of this fiction, Nick thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the edge of Daisy’s port.”2 We can learn a lesson from failure of Gatsby, that is the essence of the American dream.

B White

When nick first met Daisy at Tom’s house, Daisy dressed a white skirt, the light color emitted from Daisy made the whole room warm . the white color definitely belongs to Daisy, just the beautiful, innocent, pour white of Daisy attract Gatsby so much, the image of Daisy dressed in a white skirt as a girl pressed in Gatsby’s deep heart, which has been the most impressive image in Gatsby’ heart and cannot be forgotten forever and ever, to pursue the image of that innocent beautiful girl became his lifelong dream, a dream in the wonderland, which is another way of saying the dream is a dream can’t be accomplished forever. But Gatsby try his best to pursue his dream, under the arrangement of Nick, Gatsby met Daisy in the house of Gatsby .what impressed Daisy are not the infatuation of Gatsby , in contrast, the luxury house and the wealthy and the luxury lifestyle of Gatsby was impress Daisy most , Daisy are not the girl dressed white skirt with innocent mind ,the background of her age has transformed her completely into another person. Daisy has became a person with greedy selfish and indifference under the effect of the material life in eastern. No matter how much wealthy does Gatsby possess still cannot fulfill the greedy desire of Daisy. To understand this idea from side, the white color also means that the ignorant shallow and sluggish thought of Daisy, that is the nature of Daisy. The American dream of Gatsby never can be integrity and satisfactory, for the love of Daisy, Gatsby earn money desperately, he got so much wealthy and money ,but the money and wealthy can never fulfill his lonely thought. To pursue the innocent and beautiful

Daisy became the spiritual brace of Gatsby to continue his life, however, Gatsby was struck by the ruthless reality again, and this make the broken of American dream.

C Red

The white and red are the basic color of the house of Tom and Daisy. Since the white stand for the innocent and beauty of Daisy, and the red color perfectly show the selfish, and brutal characteristic of Tom, superior family background made Tom proud and arrogant ，Fitzgerald wrote this in the novel this way：He always brutally push retaining everyone in front of him，A red rash bull image was described vividly in novel，Although he and Daisy married, but often date with others，Even after he was aware of the affair rof his wife and Gatsby, he even took his wife to the front of Gatsby ,to prove that Gatsby cannot hurt him . finally ,he knows that his wife drove car and kill his lover accidentally ,for the sake of be jealous of Gatsby ,and Tom told his lover’s husband that his wife was killed by Gatsby, so leads to the death of Gatsby, in essence, Tom are the men with blood on his two hands ,the color red is the color of Tom.

D Yellow

Among those symbolic color ,yellow is also play an important role In the

novel, a symbol of the money, power, riches and wealthy in the novel always associated with death, the color of the car Daisy drove is yellow, and Daisy drove the car kill Tom’s lover, after Gatsby was killed by Wilson the moment he drop into water Fitzgerald described him as a yellow leaf fell into the jungle, Perhaps through this link, the author wants to tell the readers sometimes money is the source of evil leading us to the death..

The two girls in the party wear “twin yellow dresses”, Doctor T. J. Eckleburg’s spectacles are yellow, the orchestra in the party plays “yellow cocktail music”, Jordon’s arm is gold, and Gatsby’s car is yellow……it seems that money is all for this society and the society is full of yellow, which is another way of saying full of gold and money.

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E Blue.

The color Blue stand for tranquillest, resentment, and delusion, Fitzgerald regard the color blue as the mark of dream. In the fiction, when Gatsby was a teenager, he is honesty and Loyalty man. The captain trusted him completely, and gives him a blue color naval uniform. In the book, the huge eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg“stared at the solemn dumping ground is the color blue”. This symbolizes the unlucky and stands for the disaster. The skirt Myrtle Wilson is dressed is the blue color. The color of Gatsby’s garden and the lawn is blue; driver’s dressed in a cloth of robin’s-egg blue, etc..”4

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