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Emotions and reason
in affairs of the heart
The active life of human beings pendulates between feeling
and understanding. Both are directed towards the
relationship of the individual to his family, city, class
or nation.
Extended community ties lead to complications. Most of them
are connected with the tension between decision and
consequences, or between the moment and the future. The
results are frozen destinies or people in growth. The
theatre repeats such patterns as open our minds to
reflection.
Here lie the topics for all great writers. Stories
gravitate around desire, revenge, ambition and power, with
blindness versus insight as an additional theme. Important
special variants are found in sexual division, in the
formation of pairs, and in play-acting.