![]() Symbolism was used to define the importance of escape and capture, which in turn supports the theme, and by how running like rabbits through the wood can just get you eaten by a fox. The fireworks represent a bright future in Mexico and the happiness of their freedom from the oppressive totalitarianism of the future government.Īt the festival there was a dragon manned by the head searcher sent after the couple, and stood for all the danger of being caught and brought back to the future. In Mexico, at the beginning of the story, the couple is at a celebration, and there are fireworks. Staying in Mexico and evading the searchers permanently symbolized freedom, a good future, peace, and happiness. They hated the future, and it represented a bad life, unhappiness, and pain for them. Another use of symbolism is what escaping their future to the past meant for the couple. The searchers from the future would be the foxes, slyly running down their prey. The couple, Susan and William Travis, is like rabbits running through the trees, trying to hide and escape their hunters. The story title itself is symbolism, because foxes hunt rabbits in the forest. Symbolism is almost half of the story, in “The Fox and the Forest,” and is used extensively to express the meaning of escape and freedom. These two elements support the theme because they give meaning to all the parts of the plot that show how the couple tried to jump out of one bad situation, but got themselves right into one much worse. The other main literary device used in this short story, foreshadowing, is defined as a warning or indication of a forthcoming event. Symbolism is a literary device that is defined as a greater meaning attached to a natural object or fact. ” Symbolism and suspense are a key part of understanding why the couple so want to get away from the searchers and the future and why staying in the past is so important for them. The theme of the story is, “Out of the frying pan and into the fire. That’s where they are hiding when the searchers find them and a high tension capture of the couple happens. ![]() They use time travel to go back in time to Pennsylvania as a vacation, but during their stay, they ran away to Mexico. They want to escape the future because it is all industrial, with a bomb and biological war occurring and human’s lives having little value. In the story, a young couple, William and Susan Travis, are trying to escape their past, which would be our future. ![]() In the short story, “The Fox and the Forest,” from the anthology The Illustrated Man, Ray Bradbury uses suspense and symbolism to support the theme of the story.
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