What is the significance of this Orientalism? How does it relate to notions of difference and otherness?

Write two different versions for the following questions, one page for each version: The references to Orientalism in the story are numerous. Gautier uses colors associated with Orientalism throughout his work: red, green, white, silver, and gold. Each of these colors are the foundation of a symbolism of colors in Clarimonde. This is particularly notable in the descriptions of Clarimonde, with her green eyes, her red lips (with red drops of blood), her white skin, her silver voice, her green and gold traveling gown. What is the significance of this Orientalism? How does it relate to notions of difference and otherness?