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    Pink Floyd's album "The Wall" tells the story of Pink, who grows up isolated after his father dies in World War II. He is overprotected by his mother, which causes him to become dependent on her. Various symbols in the album represent Pink's isolation and mental breakdown, including a broken heart from his father's death and a pool of blood symbolizing his pain. Pink uses metamorphosis and changing forms to hide his true self. Birds and darkness in the album symbolize enemies and his worsening hallucinations. The wall Pink builds and the hammer represent his increasing authoritarianism and isolation from the outside world. Overall, the album reflects postmodern themes like the anti-hero and the isolated individual.

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    Pink Floyd's album "The Wall" tells the story of Pink, who grows up isolated after his father dies in World War II. He is overprotected by his mother, which causes him to become dependent on her. Various symbols in the album represent Pink's isolation and mental breakdown, including a broken heart from his father's death and a pool of blood symbolizing his pain. Pink uses metamorphosis and changing forms to hide his true self. Birds and darkness in the album symbolize enemies and his worsening hallucinations. The wall Pink builds and the hammer represent his increasing authoritarianism and isolation from the outside world. Overall, the album reflects postmodern themes like the anti-hero and the isolated individual.

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    Pink Floyd's album "The Wall" tells the story of Pink, who grows up isolated after his father dies in World War II. He is overprotected by his mother, which causes him to become dependent on her. Various symbols in the album represent Pink's isolation and mental breakdown, including a broken heart from his father's death and a pool of blood symbolizing his pain. Pink uses metamorphosis and changing forms to hide his true self. Birds and darkness in the album symbolize enemies and his worsening hallucinations. The wall Pink builds and the hammer represent his increasing authoritarianism and isolation from the outside world. Overall, the album reflects postmodern themes like the anti-hero and the isolated individual.

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    Symbolism in Pink Floyds The Wall

    Introduction to story
    Grows up in Post WWII to self-imposed isolation
    Father killed off; in search for
    someone to take place

    Overprotective mother, protecting and


    encouraging his fears

    Parents

    Parents and war

    Not having a father affected Pink in a


    bad way
    His overprotective mother also had a
    negative impact, because he becomes
    dependent to her. (The pillow
    symbolizes his mother)
    In the song Mother the person is
    asking his mother on advice for
    everything
    The mother responds that she will
    always take care of him
    This shows that Pink was raised being
    very protected by his mother
    therefore always looking at his mom
    for any problem he has expecting her
    to make it things right

    War
    World war II represents another brick in
    Pinks wall

    His father left Pink and his mother alone to


    go to war

    His father was killed in the war

    Pink never had any memories of his father

    This caused him to isolate and shut himself


    off

    Broken Items / Pool of Pain


    All the items he breaks
    in his room
    Put back together but
    different
    His broken heart
    because of his fathers
    death
    symbolizes change

    Blood secreting his


    body.
    The pool
    that he bleeds
    in.
    Symbolizes
    pain and suffering

    Metamorphosis/ Isolated Kid/ Shadowed Woman


    Metamorphosis

    Isolated Boy

    Shadowed Woman

    - Symbolizes his
    ability to change.
    - Hide the real him
    when he wants
    to.

    - Been lonely
    since a child
    - Due to fathers
    death in military
    - Never had
    father figure

    - Symbolizes how he
    is lonely.
    - The people around
    him change against
    him.

    Birds/Darkness
    The enemies and bombings
    An infection thats slowly taking over
    Drugs cause him to hallucinate dark & evil things

    Wall and Hammer


    Authoritarianism

    Isolation

    Self vs. World

    Destruction of
    government
    system

    How it relates to POSTMODERNISM


    The rise of the ANTI-HERO
    Magic Realism
    Individual in isolation
    Non-permanent values
    EX: THE DARK KNIGHT, MACBETH,
    CATCHER IN THE RYE, etc.

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