Victorian Life Through Color The use of color in Victorian literature and art has gone far beyond simple description to form it's very own sort of diction. Whether reading Victorian prose or looking at a Pre-Raphaelite painting one is drawn in and deeply affected by the arrangement and combination of it's colors. In the two of these mediums, each color is both powerful and used precisely either to represent a trait or emotion or to …showed first 75 words of 1815 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1815 total…that colors has gone beyond just being an adjective. It is an integral part of the identity, emotion, and desire of every character. It has truly transcended all expectations and become it's own entity, it's own power, and most of all, it's own language. Bibliography Works Cited Abrams, A.H., ed. The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Victorian Age. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, 2000. Tennyson, Lord Alfred. In Memoriam (54-56 fragment) 1850. 7 Nov. 2000