A question about The Wall?!
Question: In Pink Floyd's album The Wall what exactly is the Wall supposed to represent or symobolize?
Answers: In Pink Floyd's album The Wall what exactly is the Wall supposed to represent or symobolize?
"Th Wall" has two meanings, from the way I interpreted it.
One wall, the wall that Roger Waters wrote about is the emotional wall that one builds around themselves to prevent anyone from hurting them. It's a mental isolation of sorts. There was an incident in the Animals tour when Roger Waters spit in the face of a crazed fan, and he really began to understand that the fame that he was thrown into has made him build a mental wall from his fans and the people around him. It's a semi biography of Water, with elements of Syd Barrett thrown in. The degration of them by their fame and this feeling like they're alone in the massive crowd and the only way to protect yourself is building this meental barrier. the album goes through all the things that would lead him to build the wall (his over protective mother, his education, his wife cheating on him etc.) through the sings and later describes his life "behind the wall".
The other wall, which comes from a personal interpretation is the wall stands for society. By just simply being a sheep and doing as your were told, you're just another part of the huge picture, exactly like the rest of the "bricks" that have no method of differentiating yourself.
But the second interpretation is in no what wahat Roger Waters meant, LOL. I have no idea why I wrote it....
The wall symbolizes the barrier which is being created inside of Pink. It symbolizes his isolation from the rest of the world and his progression into insanity.
According to Wikipedia: Pink withdraws into his own fantasy world, building an imaginary wall, an allegory for being emotionally distant, to protect himself from the rest of the world
I've always thouhgt it as being 'life'. All its trials and tribulations are just another brick.........
Have you seen the movie? His father dies, his mother is neglectful, his life spirals out of control, everything goes wrong. He built up a wall around himself (emotionally). All these things that happened were just more "bricks in the wall."
Eventually, he cuts himself off completely from reality to the extent that he can't even hear what you say. At this point, the person the movie was based on (Syd Barrett, or some say Roger Waters) was hospitalized, but in the movie, it gets completely 180' and the main character literally sheds his skin (representing him shedding his wall) and turns into what he hates, a cult leader dictator.
THAT, my friend, is the wall.