Pink Floyd The Wall Analysis

The Wall Perhaps, the single most important text that I have ever encountered is Pink Floyd’s The Wall. The album has been constantly listen too, thought about and felt throughout my childhood; and now my adult life. I cant quite remember why I found the album attractive in the first place. I started listening before I could fully understand what the album was about but I knew that is was, and would be even more, significant as I learned more about myself. As my life went on it became clear why I had these feelings. The main character, Pink, mimed me; and my emotions were what was signified in the film. The Wall is a concept album that was released in 1979 and was accompanied by a synonymous film a few years later. The text features Pink, …show more content…
She is full of fear, phobias and treats Pink as if he would die at any moment. Her over protective nature provides the groundwork for the wall which Pink would later build. In a similar fashion my mother was deathly afraid of the decisions I made as a child so she took away my ability to make them. She, just like Pinks mother, was convinced that by doing so improved my safety while in reality it made a hard situation more difficult to deal with. This alienation towards our mothers caused us to not be concerned with social norms, the absence of affection left a hole that was hopelessly filled with experimentation. In the song “Mother” Pink asks his mother a series of rhetorical questions, including “Mother should I build the wall”? This emphasis the disconnection he has with his mother unable to ask questions he is forced to navigate life on his own. Pink faced certain difficulties in school, he wanted to write poetry and explore the world but this eagerness to explore was met with suppression and corporal punishment. The governmental institution that is school, left a lasting impression on Pink. Here he was at a crucial stage of his relatively ‘new’ life and he was met with hostility and the inability to express himself. This was expressed perfectly in a song ironically named “The Happiest Days of Our …show more content…
When the teachers that were responsible for the humiliation of the children went home at night were also greeted with a malefactor the punishment that these kids face is most likely the result of a the teachers themselves purging emotions. Similarly to how the pain that Pinks mother feels causes her to overtly protect him and consequently push him away. Once the film jumps to Pinks adult hood and we are introduced to his wife we begin to see how isolation, the effort he puts forth to protect himself, perpetuates his distress. His wife offers help but cannot break through. She becomes distant before leaving him and while she is in the arms of another man Pink tries to reach out to her but she does not respond making him feel more alone than he ever