I need some assistance with these assignment. colors in the novel my name is red by orhan pamuk Thank you in advance for the help!

I need some assistance with these assignment. colors in the novel my name is red by orhan pamuk Thank you in advance for the help! Not a hard thing to do, since we all have had an experience of blood, whether our own or others'. It is this same line of argument that fuels this novel's narrative. Starking images of intense color peppers the entirety of the story, and the title is only but a clue to this.

In the novel, the importance of color in visual art is further reinforced. The horse, in his exposition on being painted by a miniaturist painter said the value of aesthetics in art so succinctly:

Actually, those of you who pay particular attention to the grace of my midsection, the length of my legs and the pride of my bearing will understand that I am indeed unique. But these excellent features point to the uniqueness of the miniaturist who illustrated me, not to my uniqueness as a horse. Everyone knows that there's no horse exactly like me. I'm simply the rendering of a horse that exists in a miniaturist's imagination. Looking at me, observers frequently say, "Good God, what a gorgeous horse!" But they're actually praising the artist, not me. All horses are in fact

distinct, and the miniaturist, above all, ought to know this.

What follows is a discussion of different colors found and used as themes within the novel.

Red

For the Cherokee Native Americans, the color red is "East, the color of the Sacred Fire, blood, and success."1 How apt then, that red titles the novel which is set in Istanbul.

Red is the color of passion, of blood, of love lost and regained, of childbirth, of revolution and change. As mentioned, the novel opens with this color. Blood is the immediate imagery invoked by the first exposition. Red, then, is the primary moving force in this novel.