The Magical Term With Different Meanings- Darkness
Darkness always gives a very gloomy and moody feel. No wonder darkness is associated to horror and loneliness in movies and literature. It has such a negative impact on the emotions. It also denotes evil or depression in poems and even death or sufferings. No wonder you feel very low during winter times when the sun goes down and the darkness outside reflects on your moods too.
It is amusing that we cannot obtain darkness. Darkness happens when there is no light. So theoretically you can have lightlessness. An object appears dark because it reflects less particles than a lighter object. A white object appears white, because it reflects all the visible light. Scientifically it is not possible to create pitch darkness.
The term is a noun form. Yet it does not have a plural form. The antonym of the term is lightness but will depend on what background the term is used.
In the artistic front, darkness play a key role. Darkness is used to emphasise the brightness or contract of the other colours. The right balance of darkness in colours, gives the picture proportion and form.
Darkness depicts different meanings in different context. Here are a few:-
•The darkness of the forest was captivating.
Here darkness stands for the colour, blackness, absence of light, that indicates the stae of the forest.
•She cannot be kept in darkness any further
In the above sentence, darkness stands for secret or privacy. It means the person concerned cannot be kept away from the truth for any longer.
•The followers of darkness will never earn paradise.
This depicts a state of ignorance on religious or moral point of view. This means, when a person tends to follow evil, he will not attain goodness.
•I feel like a cloud of darkness weighing upon me.
Here the word denotes state of mind, distress or gloom. It indicates how depressed the person is
•The darkness of her face was not appealing
Darkness denotes the colour of skin in the above context. This could be either the tiredness or the racial colour of the person.
Besides these Darkness stands for the following:-
•The Darkness is a well known comic. It was published by Image comics.
•Darkness is a popular poem written by Lord Byron in the year 1816.
•There is a video game by the name Darkness, which is based on the comic.
•There were 3 movies by the name Darkness released in 1993, 2002 and they were directed by Leif Jonker, Jaume Balaguer