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Color Symbolism

Color Symbolism. Red : immoral; blood, passion, emotion, danger, or daring; often associated with fire Black: seen as a cold and negative aspect suggesting passivity, death, ignorance, or evil; black hens are used in witchcraft as are black cats

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Color Symbolism

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  1. Color Symbolism • Red : immoral; blood, passion, emotion, danger, or daring; often associated with fire • Black: seen as a cold and negative aspect suggesting passivity, death, ignorance, or evil; black hens are used in witchcraft as are black cats • Green : inexperience, hope; new life, immaturity; it is a comforting, refreshing human color; it is the color of plant life • Yellow : rotting, heat, decay, violence, decrepitude, old age, and the approach of death; bright; happiness • Blue : cool, calm, peaceful; an insubstantial color in the real world except as translucency, the void of heavens • Pink : innocence, femininity • Purple : royalty, bruising or pain • Brown : a color somewhere between russet and black; it is the color of earth and ploughed land and soil, it represents humility and poverty • Orange : the emblem of divine love or extreme lust; vibrancy, life • Violet : composed of red and blue, it is the color of temperance, clarity of mind • White : innocence, life, light, purity, or enlightenment

  2. You Try • Based on what we just looked at what is a possible theme or message of the Wizard of Oz? • How do you know?

  3. Lets Read the Following brief poem by Emily Dickenson and briefly unpack her symbolism and theme!

  4. Theme • What is the theme of the poem? • How do you know?

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