05-16-2007, 08:34 PM
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Colors used in "A Potrait of an Artist as a young man"
What is Joyce's purposeand symbolism behind the use of the colors like green, marron and yellow?
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02-08-2008, 11:21 AM
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read the first page of the novel in chapter 1 for the reference to maroon and green, green was also the color that Irish Catholics identified with, and marched under. Orange the color for protestantism. Yellow is the color of decay, and sickness, of something wrong or old and dying...i.e. the culture of Ireland dying under their old fashioned and provincial ways...due to religion and custom, and not being home ruled.
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02-08-2008, 11:43 AM
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Green is the Emerald Isle, it is the color of Spring, and youth, it is beautiful...
Yellow is the color of wild flowers, the flowers of youth Fallow is a brown, the color of wet hay drying, it is also the color of Heather, and Hearth...the color of people that endure cold winters, and await the rise of Spring.
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