Major Themes, Symbols and Motifs
- Gender issues and stereotypes
- Repressive atmosphere of the 1960s
- Forbidden love
- Freudian/Psychoanalytic theories of sexuality and gender identity
- King Kong as a masculine hero
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“The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.”
—John Major (b. 1943)
“Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it exhales symbols of every kind and color, speaks only through the most poetic forms; but first and last, it must still be at bottom a biblical statement of fact.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have “really happened,” or to have some exceptional significance in explaining certain features of life, such as ritual. Again, whereas folk tales simply interchange motifs and develop variants, myths show an odd tendency to stick together and build up bigger structures. We have creation myths, fall and flood myths, metamorphose and dying-god myths.”
—Northrop Frye (1912–1991)