There is probably barely an episode in which Emma isn’t wearing a white or cream shirt or top. White sits under her colourful cardigans, white bows (symbolizing her chastity and repressed emotions) hang off a top or pop out from underneath a jacket, white trims the vibrant colours or acts as a base.
White sums up Emma: a clean, virginal, ‘innocent dove’. That’s a no-brainer, so let’s talk angels because angels wear white and they’re made of pure love.
The low camera angle and lighting in these four shots present Emma as angel-like. Her eyes are looking down upon Will in each shot as though she’s watching over him, protecting him, like a guardian angel. In the Madonna shot (although dressed in red, white and black) she materializes, framed in a halo of white light behind her. Emma descends the stairs like the Virgin Madonna descending from the heavens further evoking an angel-like presence.
More angel references appear in ‘Vitamin D’. Will and Emma judge the girls singing the mash up of ‘Halo/Walking on Sunshine’. Emma is sitting there in her ‘angel’ like top next to Will while Rachel is singing the lyrics that reflect exactly what Emma means to him - ‘I found a way to let you in/But I never really had a doubt/Standing in the light of your halo/I got my angel now/It's like I've been awakened/Every rule I had you breakin'/It's the risk that I'm takin'/I ain't never gonna shut you out’ And then of course there is Walking on Sunshine, which gets back to what I said in the yellow/brown/blue posts.
In these scenes from ‘Sectionals’,
Emma in true guardian angel-like behaviour is Will’s protector and saviour, putting off her own wedding so she can take the kids to Sectionals for him. This act of saving him and the club is followed up in the same episode, by trying to maintain peace amongst the New Directions members: first Mercedes and Rachel, then Finn and Puck.
Before 'Sectionals' comes to a close Will finally decides his 'life would suck' without Emma and off he runs to catch his 'angel'. There she stands in a pool of light at the end of the dim corridor; she's even wearing a 'halo' (white beret).
Will runs along the dim, colourless corridor to Emma and once he reaches her, he too is bathed in the light that surrounds her. Most significant is the beam of light that rests on his chest, over his heart. His heart has been touched/opened by her 'divine' power. You could argue that they even form a kind of heart shape together with both their bodies and the space between their bodies.
Here we have the wedding dresses. The first one is as Emma explains to Will, reminiscent of Princess Diana’s dress. Marrying a prince is fairytale-like and Will did call her Cinderella in the first episode. Will is her prince, no wonder she was keen to wear it for him. Then we have the second dress that is so much better, but that’s not what I’m here to talk about it. It’s Will’s blue shirt that needs discussion. If you’ve read the ‘blue’ post, you’ll remember that blue represents sky and here we have angel Emma ‘floating’ in the sky! She looks gorgeous and he is totally mesmerized by her, as anyone would be should they be able to hold on to an angel!
White is a color of protection and encouragement, offering a sense of peace and calm, comfort and hope, helping alleviate emotional upsets. It creates a sense of order and efficiency, a great help if you need to de-clutter your life of ex-wives and boyfriends who don’t know themselves!
In Britney/Brittany, Emma’s gentle words of wisdom provide Will with some food for thought.
Too much white can cause feelings of isolation and emptiness; it can be too pristine and immaculate, making you feel as though you can't make a move for fear of upsetting it or creating a mess.
In these two scenes Emma is still ‘looking after’ Will, (helping him with Rocky Horror and caring about his emotional state at Christmas time but she has become Will’s ‘untouchable’ angel’.
At the end of Vitamin D, Emma walks out of the light towards Will to offer him an opportunity which he doesn’t take and she returns to the light. Her white shirt not only represents her celestial origins, it also represents a clean slate; In color psychology white is the color of new beginnings, a clean slate, a blank canvas waiting to be written upon. While white isn't stimulating to the senses, it opens the way for the creation of anything the mind can conceive.
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