Flowers...

- When you read a new book, poem or play it is really important to understand it. Why does author wrote it? Very often authors hide their ideas in symbols and make different allegories. And even more often it is rather hard to understand, if the author wants to tell anything or this is just a detail. At the beginning of the play "The Sound of a Voice"  by David Hwang flowers immediately catch the readers attention. But what are they?

- They certainly have deeper meaning. 

- Do they? Maybe they are just flowers for "design" of the story?

- I think flowers symbolize the circle of life. They are an allegory of life and death.

- I have always thought that flowers are symbol of beauty, but not the circle of life.

- Well, let's think logically...

- Ohh... "Ms. Logic"...

- ... 

- Ok, I am sorry. Let's think logically...

- If we think logically, we'll pay our attention that at the beginning of the play flowers are very fresh, but when Hanako dies - flowers are dead as well. Flowers are alive as long as the main character is alive. The circle is rather clear, isn't it?

- Hmm...yes. Now it is clear and rather simple. All of the above make a lot more sense.