Journal #4: 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...
The two major symbols in the first 12 pages is: flowers and the knife. The knife is observably a weapon of murderous deeds. It has caused grief to a family, who has lost a brother and a father; a son and a husband.
To my understand, the description says "yellow room", but by the uneasiness and the fact they mention breakfast and needing a knife makes the setting into aged-yellow kitchen. The beginning follows through two main topics: the family's tragic and the marriage. Flowers were uses to describe the characters and scenic view. The true importance of them, I am not totally sure, but they appear as often as water and the horse throughout the play.
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