Themes,symbols and Motifs

Motifs  

A motif is a recurring image, word, phrase, or action  that tend to create unity within a  literary work.



Symbolism  

Symbolism is the practice of representing things by means of symbols or of attributing symbolic meanings or significance to objects, events, or relationships.

A symbol have more than one meaning such as:

• Personal: That has a meaning  uniquely associated wit our experiences. 
• Contextual: That has a private meaning  created by an author.  
• Cultural: That has a meaning uniquely influenced by a culture.  
• Universal: A meaning that is given to a thing by most people and cultures.

Themes   

A theme is the main ideo or message of a literary work. It has a significant statement a story  is making about society, human nature, or the human condition. 

A theme will never completely explain the story, but rather supports all of the other elements in the story.

There are two different types of themes:

• Stated Theme: that expressed directly 
• Implied Theme: that reveled gradually through other literary elements such as plot, character, setting, point of view, imagery, figures of speech, or symbolism. 

THEME = IDEA 

The difference... between a motif and a theme 

• A motif differs from a theme in that in a motif can be expressed as a single word or fragmentary phrase, while a theme usually most be expressed as a complete sentence. 

A similarity... between motif and theme. 

• Sometimes the motif helps to create a theme in literature.  

1. Symbol:

Burning Books 

1. Audience/purpose: Society, especially for people who like to read and also for people that like to enrich their knowledge also the symbol may reach the governors of different nations to encourage policies that promote individual thought.  
2. Content/theme: In this image we can see how the different books are burning. 
3. Tone/mood:  People who associated the burning books with sadness, they can feel identified with what they were reading.
4. Stylistic Devices: The symbols are perfect to understand what the author is trying to tell the readers, the author can express herself  in a different way the readers don't understand but through the symbols readers can have a lot of different  perspective of what is happening.  
5. Structure: The books are constructed by paper, inspiration, imagination, knowledge, Ignorance and more...  books are accompanied by fire, thats why they represent burning books. 

2. Theme: 

Knowledge vs Ignorance.

1.  Audience/ purpose: The audience for this theme is people who is destroying knowledge and promoting ignorance in the society.
2. Content/theme: It represent the resultant search for knowledge destroying unquestioning ignorance everyone else used to share, and also the battles the basic beliefs of the society.
3.Tone/mood: The tone of the theme knowledge vs Ignorance is good at the point the author is telling the readers the true that all the world is passing through there are different tension between knowledge and ignorance the knowledge promote ignorance in order to equalize the population.
4. Stylistic devices: The theme makes that the people aware more in what is happening now in the world through two important words that are knowledge and Ignorance. He is using a perfect language to convince people about it.
5. Structure: This theme is constructed of two words that are represent in the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.