Flight Of The Swan Symbolism Essay

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The symbolism of time and the color of red in the novel represented Madame’s behavior with her Id, Superego, and Ego. Red was signified as an emblem towards Madame’s clothing that portrayed her fierce sexuality. In Flight of the Swan, Ferré stated, “Time had softened her image of Dandre, and his hoodlum ways now didn’t seem so menacing. She had missed his pampering and his attention to detail, which were very different from the undependable embraces of her firebrand lover” (232). The overwhelming impact of emotions that was portrayed in Madame contained hints of blood, corruption, and decay with the result of her lover’s death. Depression and abandonment increased the blackness in Madame’s heart and showed no mercy after everything was taken away from her. She contrasted her own dignity as provisional and self-destructive that damaged Masha, Dandre, and Diamantino’s outlook …show more content…
The characteristics of her validity are stringent and perseverance. According to Fanon, “Madame provided an allegorical connotation of her reflections and personality in the novel, Flight of the Swan” (1). The traits of her secretive impulse were an outspoken boldness of confidence with an exaggerated versatility of harmony and repentance. The significant importance of seeing one’s self and the world clearly was the reality acceptance between Madame and her relationships with Masha, Dandre, and Diamantino that demonstrated a connection in their hearts of darkness and bitterness for eternity. In Flight of the Swan, written by Rosario Ferré, Madame, the famous Russian ballerina created a charismatic energy within her psyche such as the Id, Ego, and Superego, which affected the people who adore her such as Masha, Dandre, and her true lover, Diamantino Marquez. Madame was a mysterious Russian ballerina that would forever be trapped in an illuminous light between heaven and

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