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Khaydar-zade G.A.
Teacher of department "English and literature"
Bukhara State university Uzbekistan, Bukhara THE IMPLEMENTATION OF COLOR SYMBOLISM IN "THE GREAT GATSBY" BY F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Annotation: The following article discusses the role of green, yellow, blue, white and grey, lavender and other colors, used in "The Great Gatsby".
Key words: morality, doubtfulness, the state of melancholy, innocence....
Since the stories were composed colors have been associated with them. Writers and poets represent ideas symbolically through colors in order to create vivid images of their characters, scenes and events. It is considered to be understood completely the meaning of color symbolism in the literature creatures, it is essential to mention the second meaning of words, have meant colors in English.[1]
However, it is analyzed, by means of article " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, traditional color-symbolism, which fixed firmly in the consciousness of the carrier of this culture, these meaning can be founding the words of article.
Green 1) fig. still strong or vigorous 2) ( of a memory) not fading 3) arch. ( of a wound) fresh, not healed 4) as sign of jealousy or envy
Yellow 1) faint-hearted 2) expressing jealously and doubtfulness Blue 1) the state of melancholy, being depressed or cheerless White 1) morally and spiritually pure 2) untainted or innocent Grey 1) cloudy and undescribed
Lavender 1) implied in order to refer to the perfection and gentility[2] Scott Fitzgerald's writing is characterized by the beauty of expressions, in terms of implementation of color-symbols in his creatures, specifically, "The Great Gatsby". The diversity of color-symbols and their perfect harmonical combination at each stage of action released by the readers. As it was explored, the colors represent not only dream but the reality as well.
Nick provides a specific description about Gatsby , expresses" like an ecstatic patron of recurrent light". In addition, Nick also draws the attention on Gatsby as " a universe of ineffable gaudiness" - a world, illustrated by the colors of the rainbow, presented in the book. [3] Gatsby's clothes, particularly, shirts are shown as "coral, and apple-green and lavender and faints orange, with monograms of Indian blue," thus indicating that the world of Gatsby was an imaginative. Additionally, another noticeable
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characterization was that the grotesque valley of ashes-rightly manifested by one critic as being "the sordid reality lying beneath the fictions of the American dream of limitless Opportunity and Achievement."
Attention was paid to the light green at the end of Daisy's dock - the symbol of the "uncontrolled future" (Piper 145), the expectations of the dream, Gatsby pursues to its end; have known with the "widespread yellow" (Piper 145) -express money, the materialism that depreciates the dreams and destroys it. The yellow is first discovered when Nick demonstrates the period of his life in the east. He describes himself as "casual observer...."looking up and wondering" (Piper 147) at "our line of yellow windows"(Piper 147) in the " long white cake of apartment houses" " I was within and without, charmed and rejected by the endless variety of life" From "without", "the windows glow with the dream but inside the apartments Nick noticed only greed. He comprehends that the glow is not of charm, but that of money. These combination of white and yellow symbolize the difference between the dream and the reality.
Coming back to the light-dark symbolism, it is discovered that Daisy and Jordan are first arranged in white. White naturally expresses purity, however it was investigated that Fitzgerald demanded us to apprehend the ironic play the "obvious purity" of Daisy and Jordan and their actual corruption. But, it has occurred in Gatsby's mind that the white does not symbolize purity, it is spoiled by the money, the yellow. Or it can be demonstrated as the purity expressed by means of the white, when actually it is spoiled that making it dirty or black. Daisy's voice is illustrated as being "like money" which expresses of favourable Gatsby's opinion of the white being contaminated by the yellow.
The first allusion of blue is mentioned at the beginning of chapter two, where Fitzgerald portrays the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg looking over the Valley of Ashes. Later during the development of events, Wilson staring at eyes said " God sees everything", he is opposed to the idea and just claimed that it was an advertisement. According to the critics words, Fitzgerald urged us to see the eyes as a symbol of "corruption of spirit in the Waste Land - as if even God has been disregarded by materialism and hucksterism - reduced to an advertisement'. This part indicates that blue symbolizes a certain ideality. This color is characterized in chapter three as a romantic ideal when implied in revealing Gatsby's house as having " blue gardens" in which " the majority of men and women came and went like moths between the whisperings and the champagne and the stars". The color of Red is revealed to have a similar feature as yellow, has meant that it demonstrates "inexpressible gaudiness of the dream" (Piper 148) or the " unpleasantness of the reality". It is one of the colors in Gatsby's romantic world so that it has been seen as a dream. Gatsby represents himself as a collector of rubies and in chapter six Nick discovered Gatsby's " opening a chest of rubies....with their crimson-lighted depths, the gnawing state of a
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broken heart".
It is not easily apprehended to cope with color-symbolism in literature works. At the beginning of the book Gatsby's car was introduced as " a rich cream color, bright with nickel swollen here and there with its monstrous length..." The spark of the car is like the dress of Jordan and Daisy, however is also replaced with color of yellow. In the subsequent chapters after the killing of Myrtle that the car was illustrated as the death car and it pointed out that " the color of the dreams begins to disappear". Witness is quoted saying "It was a yellow car" has meant that the dream is dead, replacing being " a rich cream color".
Coming back to the green light at the end of Daisy's dock it has revealed that the light convenes Gatsby to go ahead " run faster, stretch out your arms faster.". The expression of the light should be clarified: green, being the combination of yellow and blue should be acknowledged as the tragic connection of dream and reality. Gatsby, searching the blue, is blind to the yellow. The money is not so important for him on the ground that all is done for Daisy. At last the only color that charms him is blue and in the pursuit of this color he is absolutely destroyed.[4]
"Great Gatsby" by Fitzgerald is the best example of works with implementation of color symbolism. The author used colors widely, which acquired the symbolic characters as well as served as equipment to revealing the world of art. They have become an inseparable part of the world of hero and demonstrate his character, exhibited, by means of opposition, hero to another one. . With the usage of colors the author was able to depict capacity of a rich features and bright symbols, it might be difficult to realize completely the heroes and the work without it.
References:
1. Whitfield TW, Wiltshire TJ. (Nov 1990). "Color psychology: a critical review". Genet Soc Gen Psychol Monogr. 4 (116): 385-411
2. O'Connor, Z. (2015). Color Symbolism: Individual, cultural and universal. Design Research Associates, Sydne
3. F.Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby Cambridge University Press. 1991
4. F.Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby Cambridge University Press. 1991
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