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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“There are three major offenses against filial piety of which not producing an heir is the worst.”
—Chinese proverb.
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“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.”
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