Duffy and Pugh: Themes and Connections
- Created by: A. Person
- Created on: 01-05-14 21:52
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- Themes
- Identity
- Whoever She Was + Old Widowers
- We define ourselves through our loved ones... we are lost without them.
- Originally + History 1
- The 'self' is partially determined by where we come from... Severing the connection with your original home can = identity loss.
- Whoever She Was + Old Widowers
- Violence
- Education for Leisure + Shooting Stars
- Society can cultivate violent individuals.
- Shooting Stars + Torturers
- There is no question of the devastating effect of violence on the individual... But can we ever forgive the perpetrators?
- Education for Leisure + Shooting Stars
- Politics
- A Healthy Meal + Cameraman
- Society turns away from problems; hypocrisy
- Education for Leisure + She was 19 and she was bored
- Is society responsible for violence, or is that not a valid excuse?
- A Healthy Meal + Cameraman
- Power
- Dear Norman + Tree of Pearls
- Power is fragile... (Masks insecurity, or is easily destroyed...)
- Standing Female Nude + Eva and the Roofers
- Do women need men to feel powerful, or do women gain the most power by withholding part of themselves?
- Dear Norman + Tree of Pearls
- Change
- In Mr's Tilscher's Class + Paradise for the Children
- Change is painful but inevitable...
- Originally + History 1
- If we change - particularly if we change unnaturally - we can lose our self-identity.
- In Mr's Tilscher's Class + Paradise for the Children
- Isolation
- Boy + Old Widowers
- Isolation makes people vulnerable, reduces them to children.
- Education for Leisure + She was Nineteen and She Was Bored
- Society tends to reject and isolate certain types of people, leaving them lonely, and desperately searching for some kind of self-worth
- Boy + Old Widowers
- Journeys
- Originally + History 1
- Journeys can change people completely, leading to them forgetting who they once were
- The Way My Mother Speaks + Harbours
- Often we undertake journeys in a search for something unattainable, or lost in the past...
- Originally + History 1
- Memory
- In Your Mind + History 1
- We can never return to the places we remember, though we might want to...
- Whoever She Was + Annie Christina
- Is memory adequate for remembering and defining a person?
- In Your Mind + History 1
- Childhood
- Lizzie, Six+ Sweet 18
- Loss of childhood innocence can be destructive
- In Mrs Tilscher's Class + Paradise for the Children
- Childhood is precious, but it is inevitable that it will come to an end
- Lizzie, Six+ Sweet 18
- Relationships
- Oppenheim's Cup and Saucer + Sweet 18
- Desire can be both a life-affirming aspect of a relationship, or destructive
- Dear Norman + Tree of Pearls
- It seems that people are lost without relationships, despite trying to convince themselves otherwise
- Oppenheim's Cup and Saucer + Sweet 18
- Relationships between men and women
- Boy + Old Widowers
- Men are emotionally dependent on women
- Standing Female Nude and Eva and the Roofers
- Men can objectify women (positive and negative...)
- Boy + Old Widowers
- Desire
- Standing Female Nude and Eva and the Roofers
- Desire used to gain power
- Oppenheim's Cup and Saucer + Sweet 18
- Affirmative vs Destructive desire
- Standing Female Nude and Eva and the Roofers
- Identity
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