| Title | Creator | Date | Era | City |
Country |
Emotional Sum (Sense of Life or emotional World View) | Theme | |
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| Chocolate Pitcher and Butter Dish | Villeroy & Boch: | 1930 | Germany |
Friendly warmth (arising from the simple graceful lines, and the unadorned simplicity of the colors without ornament) |
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| Psyche | Author: Phyllis Brett Young | 1959 | Canada |
Optimistic, Hopeful, even under terrible circumstances. |
We are beings of self-made soul |
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| Far Country, The | Author: Nevil Shute | 1952 | 1951 - 2000 | Australia |
Life can be bright, happy and successful, but hard decisions must be faced and dealt with. |
A good and happy life is made up of self-directed actions, self-chosen goals. A less important theme is: |
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| Merry Widow (Die Lustige Witwe) | Composer: Franz Lehar | 1905 | 1900s | Vienna | Austria |
Love brings gaiety and joy to life. |
Love can be gay and tender, solemn and lighthearted, painful and joyous. |
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| Dirty Dancing | Director: Emile Ardolino | 1987 |
Life is passionate and meaningful. |
The joy and passion of love and life and dancing, while learning integrity and independence. |
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| Vitus | Director: Fredi Murer | 2006 |
If you have the will, you can find the way to live the way you want. |
Living your life your own way is the only right way. |
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| Pieta | Sculptor: Michelangelo Buonarotti | 1500 | 1500s |
Resignation in the face of tragedy. |
Recognition and acceptance of a great personal loss. |
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| Are You Lonesome Tonight? | Composer: Lou Handman | 1926 | 1900s |
Sensuality and bitterness |
The remembrance of past love. |
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| Rape of Polyxena, The | Sculptor: Pio Fedi | 1866 | 1800s |
Strength and complex beauty are central. Vitality, passion and action are hallmarks of this work. |
Life is complex strife, entwined with strong god-like characters. |
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| Much Ado About Nothing | Playwright: William Shakespeare | 1993 | 1991-2010 |
Sweetness and light and beauty are what the world is made of. |
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| Octopus | Schaefer, Taf Lebel: | 2005 |
Playful. |
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| Anthem | Rand, Ayn: | 1938, revised 1946 | 1900 - 1950 |
The book starts out psychologically dark and disorienting because of the protagonist struggling with the radically collectivist world he was born into. But what shows even in the early pages, and grows to the climax is the triumphant struggle of a rare few who break free of the yoke of total mind control and become free to live a life as a conceptual human and rediscover what it means to be an individual. Thrilling and emotionally satisfying (unless the reader is a committed determinist.) |
Ego and using one's individual mind is the core of being human. |
