(sorry if I'm being silly, I'm a noob in all things arts and literature)
I was reading some stuff and realized that, when hope is the matter, the symbols are usually variations of these: nature awakening (flowers blooming, birds singing...), sunrise, sun coming from behind clouds, illuminated subject in a dark ambient.
As a mental exercise, I tried to remember/think of other images that are used or could be used to convey hope, but I can't think of any.
Have you ever written or read anything that uses other symbols to convey similar feelings as the images mentioned?
Snowpiercer has the weirdest symbol of hope I've ever seen lmao
train movie spoiler
Dude represents the outside world (communism) being viable by having the protagonists stumble on a fucking polar bear
Like sure, it's proof that there's a big enough biosphere to sustain a bear, but now for the last decade you have people going "lol they characters die at the end bc bear eat them" which wasn't supposed to be the point at all
shouldve shown caribou herd smh