| Creator | Title | Emotional Sum (Sense of Life or emotional World View) | Theme |
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| Painter: Alexander, John White | Repose | Life is extravagant and lush and sensual. | Feminine Sensuality is a main theme, though one can argue that a related (equal theme or sub-theme) is: The Lushness of the Material World. The dramatic draped womanly figure pressing against a divan, whose figure is clearly oulined, shares the visual dominance of the painting along with the magnificent sweeps of her dress and the giant pillows, the massive backrest, and even the strong elements of the floor material and the golden back wall. All together a remarkable composition. |
| Shute, Nevil | Landfall | Heroes and Heroines are self-made, by anyone at any level of intelligence who seriously pursues what is important in their lives. |
Truth will triumph -- with perseverance. |
| Composer: Coward, Noel | I'll See You Again | Life is bittersweet | Sweet memories of love last forever |
| Alexander, John | Trees | A sense of the world as dynamic and strong. | Nature is wild and dynamic. |
| Author: Lazarus, Emma | The New Colossus | Benevolent celebration of liberty as a beacon to a troubled world. | A marvelous land of liberty offers welcome to the oppressed of the world. |
| Villeroy & Boch | Chocolate Pitcher and Butter Dish | Friendly warmth (arising from the simple graceful lines, and the unadorned simplicity of the colors without ornament) | |
| Director: Stone, Oliver | Wall Street | There are bad people in power who use ordinary people as pawns in their endless pursuit of money. Those who are not ruthless are sheep to be slaughtered by the rich and powerful. Greed is bad. |
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| Director: Parker, Alan | Fame | Life is hard, but you can succeed, and it is worth it and exhilarating. | Go after your heart's desire. |
| Director: McTiernan, John | Die Hard | 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. |
| Painter: Ghirlandaio, Domenico | Old Man with a Young Boy | Human companionship or family closeness is real. | Quiet familial love. (A grandfather (perhaps) gazing upon a grandson, and vice versa, in a clear moment of happy communion.) |
| Designer: Fortuny, Mariano | Green fabric | Still produced by the Fortuny fabric company. | |
| Sculptor: Buonarotti, Michelangelo | Pieta | Resignation in the face of tragedy. | Recognition and acceptance of a great personal loss. |
| Designer: Eiffel, Gustave | Eiffel Tower | The works of Man are thrilling. | |
| Hiroshige | Senso-ju Temple at Asakusa | Pure, simple, quiet tranquility. | |
| Playwright: Shakespeare, William | Othello: the Moor of Venice | Malevolence and horrible tragedy is unrelieved. Evil is potent. |
A great man can be gullible and controlled by an evil character. Or, an evil character can have potency in the world, because of the weakness of a good man.<br> |
| Director: Coppola Francis Ford | Godfather | Life demands death; life is a horror of killing and retribution. Life is tragedy and malevolence | Behind beauty and success lies corruption and death. |