Re-Birth - life after loss, life sustains tragedy
Death - death as mystery, death as a new beginning
Heroism - false heroism, heroism and conflicting values
Escape - escape from family pressures, escaping social constraints
Love - love sustains/fades with a challenge
Journey - most journeys lead back to home
Coming of age - boy becomes a man
Patriotism - inner conflicts stemming from patriotism
Peace and war - war is tragic, peace is fleeting
Generation gap - experience versus youthful strength
Home - security of a homestead
Betrayal - fading bonds of love
Power - Lust for power
Isolation - the isolation of a soul
Judgment - balance between justice and judgement
Fortune - a fall from grace and fortune
Family - destruction of family
Sense of self - finding strength from within
Good and evil - the coexistence of good and evil on earth
Duty - the ethics of killing for duty
Survival - man against nature
Conformity - industrialization and the conformity of man
Individualism - choosing between security and individualism
Deception - appearance versus reality
Race relations - learned racism
Suffering - suffering as a natural part of human experience
Alienation - creating emotional isolation
Loss - loss of innocence, loss of individualism
Discovery - conquering unknown, discovering strength
Beauty of simplicity
Change of power - necessity
Change versus tradition
Chaos and order
Character – destruction, building up
Circle of life
Coming of age
Communication – verbal and nonverbal
Companionship as salvation
Convention and rebellion
Dangers of ignorance
Darkness and light
Death – inevitable or tragedy
Desire to escape
Destruction of beauty
Empowerment
Evils of racism
Facing darkness
Facing reality
Fading beauty
Faith versus doubt
Family – blessing or curse
Fate and free will
Fear of failure
Fulfillment
Good versus bad
Greed as downfall
Growing up – pain or pleasure
Hazards of passing judgment
Heartbreak of betrayal
Heroism – real and perceived
Hierarchy in nature
Identity crisis
Illusion of power
Immortality
Individual versus society
Inner versus outer strength
Injustice
Isolation
Isolationism - hazards
Knowledge versus ignorance
Loneliness as destructive force
Losing hope
Loss of innocence
Lost honor
Lost love
Love and sacrifice
Man against nature
Manipulation
Materialism as downfall
Motherhood
Names – power and significance
Nationalism – complications
Nature as beauty
Necessity of work
Oppression of women
Optimism – power or folly
Overcoming – fear, weakness, vice
Patriotism – positive side or complications
Power and corruption
Power of silence
Power of tradition
Power of wealth
Power of words
Pride and downfall
Progress – real or illusion
Quest for discovery
Quest for power
Temporary nature of physical beauty
Temptation and destruction
Totalitarianism
War – glory, necessity, pain, tragedy
Will to survive
Wisdom of experience
Working class struggles
Youth and beauty
