A symbol is something that have more than one layer of meanings. For example the roses symbolize love. Roses on the literal meaning is just a kind of flower but to many of us roses is the way to show love and is directly relates to valentines day. The reason rose could symbolize love is because everyone gives out roses on valentines day or when they pop the question. Red rose especially have this layer of meaning, I think it is because when you are with the one you love, you feel red rush on your cheeks, how your heart beat just for him or her. Both of the rush and heart are red. This layer of meaning probably has been decided and well use long ago. The advertisement modern days further spread it out, the flower shop benefit a lot from this.
I think the symbol always occur naturally because it depends on how often people use and think of it. As the frequency increases, it becomes a symbol in people’s mind. It is not create at well because people don’t just decide something is going to be a symbol and it becomes one. An symbol’s other layer of meaning has to appear in people’s mind as they see the symbol or else it is useless.
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