SYMBOLS
THE GIRL IN THE RED COAT
- Innocent Jews who were being persecuted and ruthlessly slaughtered
- Ignorant views of many who decided to not be concerned with oppression towards Jews
- Red colour relates to immense amount of bloodshed of WWII and the Holocaust
- Turning point in Oskar Schindler - finally forced to opened his eyes to truth and determined to act
THE GOLDEN RING
- Incredible efforts to save thousands of Jewish lives
- Permanent mark Oskar Schindler left on the world through his heroic work
- Freedom given to the Jews and how much they appreciated their saviour
THE LIST
- Power to determine who survives
- Develops theme of dehumanization
- Schindler's List represents life
- “The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All around its cramped margins lies the gulf.” (Keneally 290)
Imagery
“It is hard to describe what they saw when the doors were at last open. In each car, a pyramid of frozen corpses, their limbs madly contorted, occupied the center. The hundred or more still living stank awesomely, were seared black by the cold, were skeletal.” (Keneally 355)
Allusion
“It is a scene from
a cautionary engraving of Judgement Day—the ones without the right mark
attempting to creep onto the line of the justified and being spotted by an
angel of retribution ....” (Keneally 297)
Simile
“Oskar is
associated [with wine and cognac] like Bacchus with the Dionysian line of
gods.” (Keneally 232)
Juxtaposition
“[Oskar] did not seem to see, in
his offer to Amon, any parallel with God and Satan playing cards for human
souls.” (Keneally 279)
Foreshadowing
“ ... what none of them knew
[was] ... that a disinfectant chemical compound, Zyklon B, would supplant
Madagascar as the solution.” (Keneally 60)
Metaphor
“Under this sort of
regimen you felt that life offered no footholds, that you were slithering into
a pit which had no bottom. But perhaps the ghetto was the bottom ....” (pg. 85)
Irony
“Now that [Oskar] is about to begin
his life anew, let us help him as once he helped our brethren.” (Keneally 391)