Choose any two symbols that emerged in this scene and discuss their significance. While you are certainly welcome to connect that significance to the entire text, I want you to focus on the details of how they are used in these first 12 pages. Look at the stylistic choices surrounding their use and build up to a discussion on the role they play or will play in developing theme/character/setting/tension...
Knife- I think that the knife is mainly used by the mother and when she does talk about it, she feels passionate about what she is saying. There is tension built because of what the knife brought upon their family. Also it is not just the knife but other dangerous weapons as well such as a pistol and a shotgun. The mother is very exaggerated when she talks about the knife. She also says that the wound cannot be taken back and how a small item killed a big man. It creates the theme that
Blood- Even though blood is only mentioned once I see that it is starting to develop a theme that is bigger throughout the rest of the book. When ever his mother mentions it, she usually uses it in a family context referring to family related problems. She talks about blood in a way that can be carried and is mobile even though your blood is predetermined and you have no control over it. I believe that this symbol creates the theme of fate/destiny and how your blood is predetermined like your fate.
I agree with your idea of predetermined fate when you refer to blood. And I found at least two examples that connect to that idea in just the first couple pages of the play(:
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of blood being your fate/destiny and how you can't choose what you get. The knife also relates to blood it is what sheds blood. It also shows the idea of once you do something like stabbing a person it can be undone.
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