![]() White, the next color, suggests age – think white hair, and bones. ![]() Green, the next color, suggests the "spring" of life (youth), orange the summer and autumn of life. The next room is purple, a combination of blue (birth) and red (associated with life, intensity) suggests the beginnings of growth. The color suggests the "unknown" from which a human being comes into the world. East is usually the direction associated with "beginnings," and birth, because the sun rises in the east west (the direction of the sunset) is associated with endings, and death.Īccording to this reading, the blue room, which is furthest to the east, represents birth. The first clue that the suite is allegorical is that the rooms are arranged from east to west. ![]() Each room, in other words, corresponds to a different "stage" of human life, which its color suggests. Supposedly, the suite is an allegory of human life. The colors of the seven rooms are just too juicy a detail not to mean something, aren't they? The black and blood red room seems so obviously to represent death, shouldn't the other rooms mean something too? A lot of commentators have thought that, and there is something of a general agreement among many of them about the meaning of the rooms. ![]()
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