CLANNAD, an anime by Key/Visual Arts, makes use of this trope on several occasions.Candy catches on her intentions, however, and she decides otherwise. When Susanna crosses the Despair Event Horizon after the accident that took away both her leg and her dreams of being an actress, she goes to the rooftop of a building in the middle of a snowstorm and attempts to throw herself from it. snow? Even at a time like this, it's still possible to feel lucky and glad. I didn't realize it was so cold out here.
Snow also covers the world with a blanket of white, and in Eastern cultures, white is the color of death (as it was until a few hundred years ago in Slavic states as well). It may have something to do with how snow melts on living bodies, but coats those that have passed on.Īs beautiful as snow is, it also signifies winter, associated with the death of the year (in the temperate latitudes at least), the death of crops, an ice age and the death of the sun. It may have something to do with how it looks like a beautiful and peaceful way to die, just letting the cold embrace you as you fall asleep. It may have something to do with the way the snow seems to try washing away the unclean corpses and ruins.
It may have something to do with how red blood contrasts so sharply with white snow, especially when gentle snowflakes are falling around a scene of carnage. So naturally, many people are shown dramatically dying in the snow. There are many ideas associated with snow: Tranquility, purity, cleanliness, beauty.