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This essay will discuss what symbolism and motifs contribute to the film of Billy Elliot. Billy Elliot is a British drama film about a boy becoming professional ballet dancer, set in Everington, Durham, north-eastern England and directed by Stephen Daldry. Billy as one of the main characters has to face challenges in his life. The symbols and motifs in Billy Elliot are used to suggest both the sense of depression and hopelessness of Billy’s environment and the sense of hope that he can escape this environment. 

The sense of depression and hopelessness of Billy’s environment is shown in one of the symbols and motifs that occurs early in the film in the motif of the door. The door outside the boxing hall: Billy is pushed at the door, suggesting he is not one of the boys. Another boy enters the hall and pushes Billy out aggressively, supporting the idea that Billy is already an outsider. The door is a symbol of an opportunity and a barrier. This door represents the barrier between Billy and the world that he is expected to be a part of.

Another symbol in the film is a little girl. This girl is seen a few times in the film, just standing around. This girl symbolizes what a depressing outlook most children of miners face in the film.  She speaks for the first time at the end of the film when she says, Goodbye Billy. This suggests that Billy is not going to be a normal mining child anymore and it foreshadows that he will be something great as we see in the last scene of the film. Before that happens, Billy has to face the challenges in his life both from family and the environment.

The film of Billy Elliot also uses symbols to suggest a sense of hope that Billy will overcome his problems. These symbols are the boxing gloves and ballet shoes which appear in the beginning of the film. They represent the struggle that Billy has between what his dad wants him to do and what he wants to do which is ballet. The boxing gloves are what his dad wants him to do and the ballet shoes are what Billy wants to do. He has found himself in ballet dancing and he expresses all he wants to do through his ballet shoes rather than his boxing boots. He has taken Mrs Wilkinson at her word when she said, please yourself, darlin'.

  

 The sense of hopelessness and the sense of hope come together in the film. One of the symbols in the film that we hear about and hear the music of and finally see Billy dancing, is Swan Lake and there are many symbols of swans evident. The story of Swan Lake is also a symbol of Mrs Wilkinson as she, like the swan loved a man who now does not love her, and she like the lady in the song does not follow her dream and dies, as does her dream of being a professional ballet dancer. The swan is like Billy who turns from an ugly duckling at a young age to a graceful swam when he is older. It is also echoed in the wallpaper of Debbie’s room.

Right, Mr. Braithwaite, "The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow". [To herself]

Fat chance!

As a baby swan is yellow, so is the sun. Both are a symbol of hope. Mrs Wilkinson’s apparent throwaway line, actually foreshadows what will happen to Billy. He will not follow what his dad expects him to do.  The same colour is also noticeable in Billy’s house or the “nest” from which Billy will emerge as a swan.

Early in the film when Billy is dancing at the ballet practice, his father sees him through bars which suggest imprisonment. This reflects his seeing Billy as equally trapped within a macho, working class paradigm:

Lads do football... or boxing... or wrestling. Not friggin' ballet.

At the climax of the movie, Billy dances defiantly in front of his dad’s face without a cage. This symbolizes that he no longer cares about what society expects him to do.

The symbols and motifs in Billy Elliot are used to suggest both the sense of depression and hopelessness of Billy’s environment and the sense of hope that he can escape this environment. Doors, shoes, the little girl, the colour yellow and cages are amongst some of the most noticeable symbols.