Cultural Examples
- Advice on fiction writing emphasises the 'necessity of creating powerful, emotional conflicts' in one's characters: 'characters create the emotional conflict and the action emerges from the characters'.
- Shakespeare's sonnets have been described as 'implying an awareness of the possible range of human feelings, of the existence of complex and even contradictory attitudes to a single emotion'
- For Picasso 'the presence of death is always coincident with the taste for life...the superb violence of these emotional transports have led some people to call his work expressionist'.
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