Transcript Symbolism

Color Symbolism
What would happen if we changed the
colors in famous titles?
• Snow White & the Seven Dwarves  Snow yellow & the Seven
Dwarves
• The Red Badge of Courage  The Black Badge of Courage
• The Black Cat  The Orange Cat
Gold
• Today: Money (Gold
coins)
• Bible: Jesus receives
gold as a mark of his
kingship.
• Greek Mythology: The
Midas Touch
Yellow
Green
• “Oh beware, My Lord of jealousy…it is the
green-eyed monster…” (Shakespeare’s
Othello)
White
• Today: Wedding dresses
• Bible: “Though your sins be like scarlet, they
may become white as snow; though they
may be red like crimson, they may become
white as wool.” (Isaiah 1:18)
Rose/Red
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Red Badge of Courage
“Seeing red”
The Sixth Sense
“Red is the color of shame. Crimson cheeks and spilled blood.
Broken hearts, opened veins. A burning desire to return to
white.” (Mary Hogan, Pretty Face)
• “Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas in incarnadine,
Making the green one red.” (Shakespeare’s Macbeth)
Black
• The Black Plague
• Ashes
• Black cats
• “It was odd to notice that by
common consent we had all put on
black clothes. Of course, Arthur
wore black, for he was in deep
mourning, but the rest of us wore it
by instinct.” (Bram Stoker, Dracula)
Blue
• “What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue?”
(Louis Armstrong)
• The Matrix: Blue Pill= “Illusion of Innocence”
• The Giver: “a bearded man with pale eyes”
Gray
• Dust
• Smoke
• “Gray trunks of solemn trees” (Hawthorne,
The Scarlet Letter)
• “The warmth and richness of her
womanhood, departed like fading sunshine,
and a gray shadow seemed to fall across her.”
(Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter)