and yet one cannot help but discern the almost stubbornly symbolic nature of these questions. In chiaroscuro painting, artists vary the values of light and dark to bring their subjects into dramatic clarity. Most prominently, the technique uses the faces...
In Hinduism, the ‘swastika’ is seen as an emblem of eternity; while Christianity uses crosses to signify everlasting life; Buddhism celebrates its Eight Auspicious Symbols which includes one representing longevity; Chinese traditions often depict dragons for their mythical power of infinite life; and...
(24) Eliot is of course concerned with the loss of faith and love in the modern world, while Fitzgerald uses the “valley of ashes” to evoke the emptiness, the hollowness, the futility of America in the Jazz Age. So, the “valley of ashes” is a symbol of the corruption of the ...
The Valley of Ashes provides the scene for the majority of the use of the color gray in The Great Gatsby. Gray most prominently and obviously symbolizes the utter hopelessness that thrives within the Valley of Ashes. Fitzgerald describes the Valley of Ashes as “a fantastic farm where ashes ...