What does the little girl in Schindler’s List represent?
Me? wrote:
She’s the one in the red that Schindler sees from the mountain. As violence is occurring around her, nothing is affecting her. I heard that she symbolized “hope.” Is that right?
She’s the one in the red that Schindler sees from the mountain. As violence is occurring around her, nothing is affecting her. I heard that she symbolized “hope.” Is that right?
Yes, she does symbolize hope, and her being the only one in colour makes the viewer focus in on that hope. Her constant wandering is the plight of humanity trying desparately in vain to find a way out of this awful plight. Ultimately, though, she too will die, and hope will die with her as well. So in a very real sense, she ultimately symbolizes the bleeding of all hope from those that live in the ghettoes and **** death camps. What Spielberg is literally saying through this character is that there was no escape. That all hope had died in the ghettoes.