Examples of common themes include:

• abuse of power, adversity, aging, appearance versus reality;

• beating the odds, beauty of simplicity, betrayal, bravery;

• capitalism and its effect on the individual, celebration, taking a chance, change, change of power needed, change versus tradition, chaos and order, character destruction and building, childhood, circles of life, comfort after death, coming of age, common sense, companionship as salvation, conservation, conspiracy, convention and rebellion, courage and heroism, creation, crime;

• dangers of ignorance, darkness and light, death – inevitable or tragedy, deception, dedication, democracy, depression, desire to escape, despair, destiny, destruction of beauty, disillusionment and dreams, displacement, dying;

• earth, economics, effects from the past, emotions, empowerment, emptiness of attaining false dreams, encouraging, everlasting love, evils by humanity, evils of racism;

• facing darkness, facing reality, fading beauty, failure, faith, faith versus doubt, fame, family – blessing or curse, fate and free will, fear, fear of failure, female roles, feminism, forgiveness, freedom, friendship, fulfillment, funerals, future;

• gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender rights, god, good versus evil, government, grace, gratitude, greed as downfall, grief, growing up – pain or pleasure;

• happiness, hate, hazards of passing judgment, heartbreak, heartbreak of betrayal, heaven, help from other-worldly powers, heritage, heroism – real and perceived, hierarchy in nature, hope, human nature, humility, humour;

• identity, identity crisis, ideology, ignorance, illusion of power, imagination, immortality, impossibility, individual versus society, individuality, injustice, inner peace, inner versus outer strength, innocence, inspiration, isolation;

• jealousy, joy, justice;

• kindness, knowledge versus ignorance;

• law, leadership, liberty, life, logic, loneliness as a destructive force, losing hope, loss of innocence, lost honour, lost love, love and sacrifice, love, loyalty;

• man vs machine, man vs man, man vs nature, man vs self, manipulation, mankind, marriage, materialism as downfall, maturity, medicine, memories, mercy, morality, motherhood, mountains, mourning, music;

• names – power and significance, nationalism, nature as beauty, necessity, neglect, new year, normality, not giving up;

• oneness, opportunity, oppression of women, optimism – power or folly, overcoming – fear, weakness, vice;

• pain, passion, patience, patriotism, peace, peer pressure, perfection, perseverance, power and corruption, power of silence, power of tradition, power of wealth, power of words, prayer, prejudice, pride and downfall, progress – real or illusion, purpose of life;

• quest for discovery, quest for power;

• race, reality, rebirth, redemption, regret, religion, resistance, reunion, revenge, revolution, rich versus poor, role of women; role of men, role of religion – virtue or hypocrisy,

• sadness, sanity, secrecy, segregation, self – inner and outer, self-awareness, self-discipline, self-preservation, self-reliance, simplicity, sin, social construct, social mobility, society, solitude, soul, suffering, suicide, survival, sympathy;

• technology in society – good or bad, temptation and destruction, time, tolerance, totalitarianism, tragic flaw, travel, treachery, trust, truth;

• unconditional love, universe, unselfishness;

• valour, vanity as downfall, vices, violence, virtue, vulnerability of the meek, vulnerability of the strong;

• war – glory, necessity, pain, tragedy and loss, waste, wealth, will to survive, willpower, winning and losing, wisdom of experience, work, working class struggles;

• xenophobia;

• youth and beauty;

 

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