The Nightingale: Book Analysis: Symbolization Of The Nightingale

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Michael Schimke
Dr. Donahue
HUMN 211
March 5, 2018
Symbolization of the Nightingale
In the story of Laustic there is many symbolizations throughout the text if taking a moment to reread the story and looking more in-depth the author places certain things in the text. The town of Saint-Malo there is two knights and one of the knights is married and the other is a bachelor knight. The wife of the married knight has an affair with the other knight. In the story there is many objects that represent different things; the dark stone wall representing the sin of adultery, the husband throwing the dead nightingale at the wife, for the husband has found out about the wife’s love for someone else but doesn’t know who, and finally the nightingale representing …show more content…

The “high wall of dark stone,” is representing sin (1422). The reason I say that is, because the author could of use any other color. Why would the author choose the color dark for the wall? It is for the representation of sin. The sin that it is representing is adultery, because in the ten-commandment given from God to Moses, God says, “you must not commit adultery” (“Topmarks”). When someone commits a sin and cleansed they would go to hell and hell is total darkness with no light. That is why I think the author used the description as dark, for it representation of sin for the high stone wall. If they would have crossed the dark stone wall, then they would have sinned and gone to hell to live in …show more content…

This will show that she loves him, but the husband figured out the wife’s love. She must send it by a servant, so the husband doesn’t know of her involvement with the bachelor knight. When the knight gets the dead bird, he realizes what it means that they can’t be with each other and then places the bird in a special seal casket. He says, “he will carry it with him always” (1424). The dead bird in a sealed casket that he will carry with always is a symbolization of their love that he will cherish it forever and never forget her. According to Wikipedia, the nightingale represents powerful and beautiful song (“Common nightingale”). This story is about two people that love each other in a strong and beautiful way. The strength to go so far to hide their love and never give up is the strength. Then the beautifulness is that it’s a romantic story about two lovers. The author didn’t just used the nightingale for love, but the complexity of the

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