Literature+Review.doc

Literature Review Symbols, Symbolism and its development The thesis is to analyze the film from symbolism perspective, however, it is very important to take a hard look at symbol before disscussing symbolism literary. Becaause symbolism is closely associated with symbol and symbolism’s aesthetic pursuit of implication, melody and rhythm if there is no symbol. An outstanding German philosopher G. W. F. Hegel defined symbol as “ From the perspective of aesthetics symbol is a sensuous object, which must not be taken in itself such as it presents itself immediately to us, but in more extended and more general sense (/reference/archive/hegel/works/ae/ch01.htm). Universal symbols and specific symbols are the two categories of symbols. Uniwersal or cultural symbols are those whose associations are the common property of a society or culture and are so widely recognized and accepted that they can be said to be almost universal. These types of symbols are sometimes also called traditional symbols (Lin,2004). This type of symbols is widely used in western literature. For example, the color green for freshness and growth, rose for love, dove for peace. In literature, however, the term “symbol” is taken to represent something which does have some characteristics analogous to, or some natural association with, what is symbolized. Symbol are a kind of medium of in direct expression. It can be a person, object, action, place, situation, group or even artwork. Symbol is one of those words that are often used in a confusing manner. The confusion is increased by different scholars using the word to mean very different things. Most obviously, General Semantics use symbol to designate what other writers call a “sign” . A symbol is a sign that has further layers of meaning. In other words, a symbol means more than it literally says. The more profound the symbol, the greater the complexity of the layers of meaning. In literature, it is important to remember that a novel means m