FREE ESSAY ON IMAGERY TRACE - LIGHT DARK

IMAGERY TRACE - LIGHT DARK

Throughout The Children of Men, there were various significant images, one of which was
light/dark contrast. James used light/dark contrast throughout the entire book to set the
scene and to outline important events. The light was used to show peace, especially with
the females that Theo was attached to. Although, where there was light, there was also
darkness for the sake of contrast, or vice versa. Darkness helped shape the reality of
the hope that light introduced. This type of contrast gave the story and open ending
until the end. It made hope and failure possible which has become a major theme of the
novel: hoping for something and when it fails, accepting the failure. Towards the end of
the novel, darkness became their hope. They relied on darkness to help them hide, but at
the same time the lights of a village would have given them hope. Light/dark contrast
captured the essence of Omega and Alpha-the and the beginning-and was significant in the
understanding and analyzing of the novel.
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