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The Good Life, Foreign Power, Sacrifice :, Failure, Creon takes pride in…
The Good Life
Suffering
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“If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.”
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Personal Goals
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Communal Fulfillment
Pride
Since you are a tourist, the thought of what it might be like for someone who had to live […] in a place that suffers constantly from drought […] must never cross your mind.
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Lying
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You know what kind of plan never fails? No plan. No plan at all. You know why? Because life cannot be planned.
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“She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books.”
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“After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again.”
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Limitations
"You might look at them and think; 'They're so relaxed, so laid back, they're never in a hurry'... Some natives, most natives in the world, cannot go anywhere"
Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place
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Foreign Power
Lack of Control
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Every native everywhere lived a life of overwhelming and crushing banality and boredom and desperation and depression, and every deed, good or bad, is an attempt to forget this.
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Since you are a tourist, the thought of what it might be like for someone who had to live […] in a place that suffers constantly from drought […] must never cross your mind.
"Jamaica was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493. Not too long after, it was settled by human rubbish from Europe, who used enslaved but noble and exalted human beings from Africa to satisfy their desire for wealth and power.
“It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.”
We’ve been saying, more and more often, you must work with the others, you must accept the rule of the majority. But any rule is tyranny. The duty of the individual is to accept no rule, to be the initiator of his own acts, to be responsible.
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Sacrifice :
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"Jessica, only child, Illinois, Chicago. Classmate Kim Jin-mo, he's your cousin."
“Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.”
There must have been some good people among you, but they stayed home. And that is the point. That is why they are good. They stayed home.
Failure
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"You wouldn’t understand yet, son, but your daddy’s gonna make a transaction . . . a business transaction that’s going to change our lives. . . ."
“Deep down, all the while, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she kept casting desperate glances over the solitary waster of her life, seeking some white sail in the distant mists of the horizon."
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“Nor could I think that a decree of yours- A man- could override the laws of Heaven Unwritten and unchanging. Not of today Or yesterday is their authority; They are eternal; no man saw their birth.” -Antigone
Faith
“Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell?”
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Oh—So now it’s life. Money is life. Once upon a time freedom used to be life—now it’s money. I guess the world really do change . . . Walter: No—it was always money, Mama. We just didn’t know about it. Mama: No . . . something has changed. You something new, boy. In my time we was worried about not being lynched . . .
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Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun**
Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Stephanie Black, Life in Debt
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