A Flower For Your Thoughts Flowers have their own language. There is more to a flower than its outward appearance. Ranging from brilliant proses of playwright William Shakespeare to an impeccable, innovative speech by Boeing’s business leader Harry Stonecipher, flowers bloom in the most diverse means of communication. Flowers give greater meaning to topics such as life and death, and diversity to inner self-being. They bring out emotion and characteristics that the audience is able to relate to. The flower symbolism bases not off of one set description; therefore, this aids it in its relevance to flourish on a universal scale. Flowers are used in literature and analysis universally since the start of time, dating back to Greek mythology,
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While Persephone was gathers these flowers, Hades took her with him down to the underworld. Zeus agreed with this arrangement of matrimony. However, Demeter, Persephone’s mother, did not know of this arrangement and casts the earth, inhabited by humans, barren (Thorburn). As the world grew unfruitful, flowers that Persephone did not pick were dead, indicating loss and mourning. These depict Demeter’s emotions towards her daughter and the unexpected engagement. Not all flowers will symbolize such mourning, especially not in all of Greek mythology and other works. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne planned to make natural elements, such as flowers, messages of God. Hawthorne makes it a priority to incorporate God with nature in his book. Through the pieces of nature that Hawthorne incorporates throughout this book gives the reader the opportunity to capture the meaning of flowers, for instance. In The Scarlet Letter, after the General smelled the “fragrance of flowers,” he grew into a “native elegance” that disappears after childhood ends, but while seeing and smelling flowers, it brought the soldier into a “young girl’s” aspect …show more content…
As time elapsed while living in the castle, Beauty wishes to see her family and take care of them in time of crisis since she found out from the Beast (“Beauty”). Her sister was to soon marry the wrong man. In addition, her father became ill. Because Beast accepts this, Beast presents Beauty with a rose to keep with her for one week so he knows that she will come back (“Beauty”). If she arrives back any later than that, Beast will die just as the rose will (“Beauty”). In this instance, the rose preserves its relevance in the story through representing time. It acts as a timer for the Beast’s death. This enables a later struggle as Beauty tries to make up that time as she becomes lost when searching for the Beast’s castle (“Beauty”). The flower instantly resembles the Beast’s health and his qualms regarding his appearance (“Beauty”). This new representation illustrates masculine health, whereas flowers were usually represented as femininity and feminine metaphors (“Beauty”). The rose, and flowers in general, are universally understood to represent feminine attributes; however, people who read Beauty and the Beast, for example, will see that this is not the case. In the story, the rose represents beauty but Beauty could not recognize her “growing” physical beauty until the end of the story. When she looks into the mirror near the end of the story, she realizes that the mirror’s reflection is accurate, and
While Persephone was gathers these flowers, Hades took her with him down to the underworld. Zeus agreed with this arrangement of matrimony. However, Demeter, Persephone’s mother, did not know of this arrangement and casts the earth, inhabited by humans, barren (Thorburn). As the world grew unfruitful, flowers that Persephone did not pick were dead, indicating loss and mourning. These depict Demeter’s emotions towards her daughter and the unexpected engagement. Not all flowers will symbolize such mourning, especially not in all of Greek mythology and other works. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne planned to make natural elements, such as flowers, messages of God. Hawthorne makes it a priority to incorporate God with nature in his book. Through the pieces of nature that Hawthorne incorporates throughout this book gives the reader the opportunity to capture the meaning of flowers, for instance. In The Scarlet Letter, after the General smelled the “fragrance of flowers,” he grew into a “native elegance” that disappears after childhood ends, but while seeing and smelling flowers, it brought the soldier into a “young girl’s” aspect …show more content…
As time elapsed while living in the castle, Beauty wishes to see her family and take care of them in time of crisis since she found out from the Beast (“Beauty”). Her sister was to soon marry the wrong man. In addition, her father became ill. Because Beast accepts this, Beast presents Beauty with a rose to keep with her for one week so he knows that she will come back (“Beauty”). If she arrives back any later than that, Beast will die just as the rose will (“Beauty”). In this instance, the rose preserves its relevance in the story through representing time. It acts as a timer for the Beast’s death. This enables a later struggle as Beauty tries to make up that time as she becomes lost when searching for the Beast’s castle (“Beauty”). The flower instantly resembles the Beast’s health and his qualms regarding his appearance (“Beauty”). This new representation illustrates masculine health, whereas flowers were usually represented as femininity and feminine metaphors (“Beauty”). The rose, and flowers in general, are universally understood to represent feminine attributes; however, people who read Beauty and the Beast, for example, will see that this is not the case. In the story, the rose represents beauty but Beauty could not recognize her “growing” physical beauty until the end of the story. When she looks into the mirror near the end of the story, she realizes that the mirror’s reflection is accurate, and