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Year 2019, Volume: 5 Issue: 13, 266 - 274, 28.04.2019
https://doi.org/10.18769/ijasos.534647

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ENVIRONMENTAL ELEMENTS AND THEIR SYMBOLIC MEANINGS IN SELECTED DRAMATIC AND FICTIONAL WORKS

Year 2019, Volume: 5 Issue: 13, 266 - 274, 28.04.2019
https://doi.org/10.18769/ijasos.534647

Abstract

Symbolism, closely related to imagery, served to indicate an object or
an idea. It is possible for the author to refer to the meaning indirectly when
he believes his themes expressed eloquently by using symbols rather than by
referring to the aim directly. In any literary topic, an author enhances the
themes of his writing through using certain symbols to add more richness and
color. Objects often used as indications to create meaning in a work.
Throughout various forms of literature, environmental elements such as a lonely
streetlight, tree, scarecrow, etc., help readers to understand and follow
meaningfully the event sequences.



To shed the light on the significant use of some of the environmental
elements, the paper includes two main parts; the first is concerned with some
environmental elements discussed separately in two plays through sub parts while
the second part discusses some other, environmental elements in two novels
through sub parts. Each sub part stresses on a symbolic literary reference that
differs in meaning but all devoted to define, at least, one essential theme.



The first part is mainly concerned with dramatic elements that presented
in certain plays. The function of the “Dry trees” or "leafless trees"
as a theme naturalistically devoted to explain poor emotions and lifeless meaning
that obviously seen in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. This part
also deals with the element of the “scarecrow” in Marina Carr’s Women and
Scarecrow
. The second part is concerned with the use of “postbox” in
waiting glimpses of hope in Alice Walker's The Color Purple. This part
also sheds the light on the significance of the “windmill” in George Orwell’s Animal
Farm
as the writer gave an alternative meaning for industrialization.

References

  • Anderson, Laurie Halse.(1999).Speak. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux. Beckett, Samuel.(1954).Waiting for Godot. New York : Grove press. Bevington, David (ed).(1987). William Shakespeare: Henry IV, Part I. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Bona, Mary Jo.(2015).Women Writing Cloth: Migrating Fictions in the American Imaginary. Lexington Books. Bridges, Robert.(1890).The Shorter Poems of Robert Bridges. Berkeley: University of California. Carr, Marina.(2014).Woman and Scarecrow. London: Faber and Faber. Colvin, Sarah.(2003).Women and German Drama: Playwrights and their Texts, 1860-1945. Camden House: Boydell and Brewer Inc. Graver, Lawrence.(2004).Beckett: Waiting for Godot. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Huckuale, David.(2018) A Green and Pagan Land: Myth, Magic and Landscape in British Film and Televesion. North Carolina: McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers Jefferson. Juten, Naney Lewis and John Zubizarreta (ed).(2011).The Robert Frost Encyclopedia. London: Greenwood Publication Group. Orwell, George.(1989). Animal Farm: A Fairy Story. Houghton: Mifflin Harcourt. Rose , Walter.(2006).The Village Carpenter: The Classic Memoir of the Life of a Victorian Craftsman.Fresno,CA: Linden Publishing, Inc. Stevenson, Robert Louis.(1914).The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson: Vitginibus puerisque. The New York Public Library. Bequest of John L. Cadwalader, LL.D., Tennyson, Alfred Lord.(1892). The Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Volume I. Boston and Vew York: Houghton, Mifflm and Company, Cambridge University.
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Primary Language English
Journal Section Articles
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Nahidh Falih Sulaiman

Publication Date April 28, 2019
Submission Date January 2, 2019
Published in Issue Year 2019Volume: 5 Issue: 13

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EndNote Sulaiman NF (April 1, 2019) ENVIRONMENTAL ELEMENTS AND THEIR SYMBOLIC MEANINGS IN SELECTED DRAMATIC AND FICTIONAL WORKS. IJASOS- International E-journal of Advances in Social Sciences 5 13 266–274.

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