Katherine Anne Porter’s famous short story “Flowering Judas” follows a women named Laura who is being courted by a man named Braggioni. The story itself uses symbolic meaning with flowers and religious symbols . With every event taking place in her house the reader feels the isolation with her. in Katherine Anne Porter “Flowering Judas the themes, author styles and literary devices all make the story more enjoyable to read.
In Katherine Anne Porter’s “ Flowering Judas” the theme of Ideals vs Reality permeates throughout the story. While the audience follows Laura’s throughout the story,they become more entwined with Laura’s thoughts about the revolution and the people actually leading it. Taking a quote from “Flowering Judas” itself . Porter says:“Braggioni has become a symbol of her many disillusions, for a revolutionist should be lean, animated by heroic faith, a vessel of abstract values. This is nonsense, she knows it now and is ashamed of it. Revolutions must have leaders , and leadership is a career for energetic men.”(Porter 311).This means that Laura sees Braggion as personification of all that she finds wrong …show more content…
As said by the editor of Short Stories For Students, Ira Mark Milne says about symbolism. “Symbolism is the most important stylistic feature in “Flowering Judas”. The most important thing to understand about Porters use of symbolism is that it is multi-faceted and ambiguous. Indeed, symbols that porter employs often refer to one idea and its opposite.”(Milne 29). This means that the entirety of the story has symbolic meaning right down to the obvious religious symbolism of the flower from a Judas Tree. with the flower representing purity and Judas referring to Judas Iscariot, The man who betrayed Jesus Christ in the Bible. (Mark 14:9-45).More religIous symbolism can be found in the story itself like in this excerpt from “Flowering
In Katherine Anne Porter’s “ Flowering Judas” the theme of Ideals vs Reality permeates throughout the story. While the audience follows Laura’s throughout the story,they become more entwined with Laura’s thoughts about the revolution and the people actually leading it. Taking a quote from “Flowering Judas” itself . Porter says:“Braggioni has become a symbol of her many disillusions, for a revolutionist should be lean, animated by heroic faith, a vessel of abstract values. This is nonsense, she knows it now and is ashamed of it. Revolutions must have leaders , and leadership is a career for energetic men.”(Porter 311).This means that Laura sees Braggion as personification of all that she finds wrong …show more content…
As said by the editor of Short Stories For Students, Ira Mark Milne says about symbolism. “Symbolism is the most important stylistic feature in “Flowering Judas”. The most important thing to understand about Porters use of symbolism is that it is multi-faceted and ambiguous. Indeed, symbols that porter employs often refer to one idea and its opposite.”(Milne 29). This means that the entirety of the story has symbolic meaning right down to the obvious religious symbolism of the flower from a Judas Tree. with the flower representing purity and Judas referring to Judas Iscariot, The man who betrayed Jesus Christ in the Bible. (Mark 14:9-45).More religIous symbolism can be found in the story itself like in this excerpt from “Flowering