Salvador Dali- Symbolism Rough Draft

months before he was born, his older brother died, so

his parents found ways to convince him that he was a

reincarnation of him. Apparently, Dali even told

people that the terrifying memory of this dead brother

haunted him for the rest of his life. It’s been heard

that one of his favorite pastimes was walking around

his house in a blue emperor's costume. Because his

parents felt like Dali was actually his dead brother,

they treated him like a king because they feared his

death once again. Because of the way his parents

treated him, and since he always trying to be as

wonderful as his dead brother, made him have a

Since he had to put up with so many strange thing at

such a young age, I guess that somewhat explains why

Dali had such an odd and amazing personality, which is

highly shown in his paintings. I learned that he even

said in one of his journals that the stress he had to

deal with when he was little, trying to live life as

his dead brother and himself, made him really

fascinated with death and body decay.

He started painting at the age of 10, which disturbed

his parents. They were not used to seeing such

basically just a defence mechanism for us in fear of

to see anything inside them that could better them as

some time went by, he was still obsessed with death

feel that we all would be better people. It is

on certain objects, be it a tree, or a box. I think

crawl around infesting and projecting their evil onto

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