Something Wicked This Way Comes Literary Analysis
Section 7 Literary Element
In the novel “Something Wicked This Way Comes” by Ray Bradbury, Will is associated with the symbols the color white and the number three. The symbol of the color white is shown through “hair as blonde-white milk thistle” (Bradbury, 6), “and he was white and much afraid” (99), and “his soul fall over cold and white-jelly”(167).Will’s hair is described in this way because the color white represents purity and Will is the only pure person between him and Jim. Bradbury does this to show that Will is the one that could ruin the carnival’s plans for retrieving Jim. Also the symbol of the number three is shown through “At three A.M.!”(46), “three in the morning”( 54), and “ Three”(67). Three represents the beginning, the
middle, and the end. At three in the morning the first event took place which was when the boys heard the calliope playing the music backwards with a train coming into town and setting up a carnival suspiciously fast. Bradbury does this to show that the train, the carnival and the calliope playing backwards was just the beginning of the many events to happen. He does this by placing the number three at the beginning of the novel.
In the novel “Something Wicked This Way Comes” by Ray Bradbury, Will is associated with the symbols the color white and the number three. The symbol of the color white is shown through “hair as blonde-white milk thistle” (Bradbury, 6), “and he was white and much afraid” (99), and “his soul fall over cold and white-jelly”(167).Will’s hair is described in this way because the color white represents purity and Will is the only pure person between him and Jim. Bradbury does this to show that Will is the one that could ruin the carnival’s plans for retrieving Jim. Also the symbol of the number three is shown through “At three A.M.!”(46), “three in the morning”( 54), and “ Three”(67). Three represents the beginning, the
middle, and the end. At three in the morning the first event took place which was when the boys heard the calliope playing the music backwards with a train coming into town and setting up a carnival suspiciously fast. Bradbury does this to show that the train, the carnival and the calliope playing backwards was just the beginning of the many events to happen. He does this by placing the number three at the beginning of the novel.