pawns, worthless? i think not.

You know what one really talented deviantart artist made me realize? That it's symbolic when you manage to get a pawn all the way across a chess board, it turns into a queen.

Something like a pawn, that's stereotyped as the weakest and worthless chess piece, can transform into a powerful, strong, valuable queen (if you work hard enough to get that pawn all the way across, that is). The symbolism behind this is that people who are vulnerable and lowly, with a lot of hard work and effort, can rise into someone who's highly praised and all-mighty.

When this artist hinted this symbolic meaning to me, I pieced it all-together and now I'm fascinated by it. XD