Few fruits carry as many symbolic meanings as the apple. It has been used to represent disastrous temptation (think of Adam and Eve’s one-way ticket out of Eden) and a wretched anomaly within a group of people (the notion of how “one bad apple” could spoil the whole bunch).
But the apple also has positive connotations. After all, who needs a doctor when consuming an apple a day? And consider how an uncommonly wonderful individual can be “the apple of your eye.”
