22 communicate unique personal feelings. The pragmatic approach is represented by
Dewey regards all words which represent objects and actions as symbols. All symbols have a meaning, but the meaning is not in the symbol itself. Here are
some symbols that are related to the topic, which is discussed:
a. Pearl Earrings
As stated by The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols 1996, the pearl is the essential symbol of a feminity wholly creative. The Ancient Greeks regarded
pearls as symbols of love and marriage. The pearl may also be seen in the role of mystical centre. It symbolizes the sublimation of instinct, spiritualization of
matter, transfiguration of the elements, the gleaming goal of evolution. Pearls are rare, pure, and precious. They are pure because they are regarded as being
flawless and white, and this is unaffected by their being dredged from the muddy depths or taken from a clumsy shell.
Diadochus of Photike taught that, the merchant selling “all that he had” to get the “pearl of great price”. The pearl is also compared with the female sexual
organs. In China, it was a symbol of immortality. In Persian literature and folklore, the unflawed pearl is regarded as a symbol of virginity. However,
threading pearl is versification. Earrings, which are decorated with rare and precious pearl, cast a shadow of this holy nobility upon their wearers p. 742-745.
According to The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols 1996, in North Africa, earrings carry an especial and originally sexual significance. The obscene
implication of a rogational prayer “May God bedew her earrings” is “May God bedew the lips of her vulva”. The sexual symbolism of earrings is plainly
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23 demonstrated by the women of the Aurès region of Algeria. Be this as it may, the
sexual symbolism of the earring French: boucle agrees with the etymology of its Latin source, its literal meaning being “little mouth” pp. 330-331.
b. Eyes
In The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols 1996, it is only natural that the eye, the organ of visual perception, should almost universally be taken as a
symbol of intellectual perception. The human eye is regarded as a symbol of knowledge and of supernatural perception; it is sometimes endowed with
surprising qualities. During sexual intercourse “the wife is joined to her husband through her eyes as well as through her sexual organs.”
Throughout Ancient Egyptian tradition, the eye retained its solar, fiery nature, as a source of light, knowledge and fertility. The Bambara say that “sight
is desire; the eye is the wish” and, lastly, that “a man’s world” is “his eye”. Also, metaphorically, the eye is able to correspond to notions of beauty, of the world, of
the universe or of life ibid. pp. 362-366.
c. Hair
