Title Creator Date Era City Country Emotional Sum (Sense of Life or emotional World View) Theme
Ebben? Ne andrò lontana (aria from La Wally) Composer: Catalani, Alfredo 1892 1851-1900 United States

Longing is the overall emotional tone of the music. The lyric gives reason to this overall tone.

Sadness at having to leave forever the place where you were happy once.
Ebben? Ne andrò lontana (aria from La Wally) Composer: Catalani, Alfredo 1892 1851-1900 United States

Longing is the overall emotional tone of the music. The lyric gives reason to this overall tone.

Sadness at having to leave forever the place where you were happy once.
East of Eden Author: Steinbeck, John 1952 1951 - 2000 Life is filled with great and important choices.

The battle between good and evil, guilt and innocence. Takes the position that we are influenced by many things, but ultimately we have free will.
Dirty Dancing Director: Ardolino, Emile 1987 Life is passionate and meaningful.

The joy and passion of love and life and dancing, while learning integrity and independence.
Die Hard Director: McTiernan, John 1988 July 15 The way to beat evil is to give no quarter, no compromise. Life is hard, but fighting for the right is rewarded.

Giving up in life is not an option.
Diana Sculptor: Saint-Gaudens, Auguste 1892 1900s New York United States Serenity in action. But not a strong world view in any case, quite placid.
Design for Living Writer: Coward, Noel 1932 1900s Life can be giddy and bright. Facing up to one's anti-conventional values is important. Conventional morality must be questioned if it causes suffering and conflict.

You should follow your deepest values and accept them no matter how unconventional the outcome.

A rare combination of the wittiest, lightest of Noel Coward's style, along with deeper themes of romantic love, proper morality and how should one live.
Day at the Beach Painter: Leyendecker, J.C. 1932 1900s Fun and cuteness.
David Sculptor: Buonarotti, Michelangelo 1504 1500s Man is a strong, indomitable creature who has the intelligence to overcome terrible odds.

[requires assumption of some context of this work -- not a "cold" introduction to it]: A man able to face a daunting task, with tremulous calm and determination. This is the depiction of the David/Goliath story of the Bible in which David takes on the much more formidable Goliath and wins.
Dangerous Beauty Director: Herskovitz, Marshall 1998 pre-1910 United States The world is a horrible split of conventional marital morality vs. honest but promiscuous morality. The way to live requires one sacrifice one's body for one's soul.

1. The importance of accepting your own rules for living, your own morality.
2. The grim metaphysical conflict for a Venetian woman of being a slave to a husband or a free woman requiring sexual work.
Cyrano de Bergerac Playwright: Rostand, Edmond 1897 1900s United States Life can be exciting. Life can be grand, literally.
There is also some great sadness about consummated love, since it is portrayed as unreachable.

The importance of independence and independent thought. Compromise is deadly to one's soul.
Sub-themes: a) Doubt of one's goodness because of an incidental fact (physical feature) is terribly damaging and tragic. b) Helping someone by faking reality is damaging and can come to no good.
Crane Under the Rain Ohara, Shoson 1928 1900s Life is difficult.
Covered Box Designer: Otar, John 1930 1901-2000 Fun; complexity made from simplicity
Confectionary Basket from Japan, Fukui region Designer: Anonymous unknown Life can be dynamic and purposeful and intriguing -- because of the dynamic form and economy of materials and diagonal symmetry of the composition.
Composition with Red Yellow Blue and Black Painter: Mondrian, Piet 1921 [Seems mute]
Comedia Painter: Dewing, Thomas Wilmer 1892-4c 1800s Philadelphia United States Life is sumptuous and beautiful and alive.

Feminine vivacity and gaiety
City Island De Felitta, Raymond 2009 1991-2010 United States Anxiety and pain from all the lies and mistaken motives. Catharsis from the climax, leading to feelings of wanting to be truthful in life!

Lying is not the way to live.
Chocolate Pitcher and Butter Dish Villeroy & Boch 1930 United States Friendly warmth (arising from the simple graceful lines, and the unadorned simplicity of the colors without ornament)
Chocolat Director: Hallstrom, Lasse 2000 Pleasure is good; religion and conventional thinking is bad.

Follow your dream and disregard convention.
Chariots of Fire Director: Hudson, Hugh 1981 1971-1990 A complete feeling of openness of the world to greatness of your own choosing.

Life is achievement.
Chariot of Apollo Sculptor: Tuby, Jean Baptiste (1630-1700) 1668-1670 1600s The world has thrilling powerful men of action.  There are no limits to what can be achieved.

Elegant, physical power.&nbsp; The fantasy ability to fly through water and air with grace and ease.<br>
Camelot Composer: Lerner and Loewe 1960 1951-2000 One must attempt to live by values, even though virtue is powerless and hopeless.

Camelot: a medieval place of goodness and justice, and its inevitable failure.
Burn Notice Creator: Nix, Matt 2007 Anything can be done if you are smart and motivated enough.
Burgos Cathedral Crossing Architect: Unknown 1569 circa 1500s God is order and reason and light.

The spirit of god is rational, uplifting and rich in detail
Brief Encounter Screenwriter: Coward, Noel 1945 1931-1950 United Kingdom Passionate love. Tragic choices.

High romance is possible. Such love is unlikely to survive.
This film manages to embrace two contradictory themes, leading to a major bittersweet outcome.