Using different figure of speeches in one essay can embellish complexed sentences, as well as enrich the context, and one more important function is to emphasize the theme statement. Normally, author directly writes down his opinions. Sometimes authors are more willing to use some representative symbols to describe their thought. In our reading, “Birth-mark” and “A wall of fire rising”, writers use some representative symbols, such as the birthmark and the balloon, to show his theme statement. Symbolism is one obvious figure of speech using in the two articles. In those two articles, there are some similarities and differences between the function of symbolism. The different symbol methods result in various effects on readers’ feeling and understanding to the articles. …show more content…
In addition, it is also the theme statement— “every living thing is flawed in some way, nature’s way of reminding us that every living thing eventually dies.” And it pushes the developing of the plots until the ending parts. The birthmark looks like the smallest gnome’s hand with rose red. The author’s description seems not positive about the birthmark which indicates the ending tragedy. The absolute belief of science and the revulsion of the birthmark pushes the Aylmer finding ways to eliminate the birthmark no matter whether his wife is willing to. The most ionic description here is that we all know Aylmer is intelligent, but his misinterpretation of the symbol results in him astray.
We can also consider the birthmark as a symbol of mortality. It represents the eventually death of Georgiana because of her husband’s chasing in science. Under this story, the birthmark is a kind of magical hands based on the background and all the description consist of author’s imagination and iconic