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Generating Generalizations about the Value of Literature

The statements below will aid you in drawing conclusions about the universality of a protagonists actions. The conflicts described will enable you to categorize the protagonists actions, and the themes will enable you to speculate about their universal significance. Conflicts (You may add others to this list) 1. Between desire to reform and provocations and inequities of a society.

2. Between overwhelming forces and mans perseverance (fortitude). 3. Between self-interest and justice. 4. Between permanent human values and social upheaval. 5. Between claims of conscience and claims of fear. 6. Between good and evil, justice and injustice, truth and error. 7. 8. 9. 10. Themes (You may add others to this list) 1. Man will sacrifice (all) to support what is right. 2. Mans commitment to ideas he wants to believe may prevent recognition of the truth. 3. Mans spiritual aspirations demand satisfaction. 4. Moral cowardice may force man to compromise or relinquish his values. 5. What is legal is not always just. 6. Human values remain permanent in the midst of the inevitable. 7. The earth is the source not only of physical sustenance but of spiritual strength. 8. Love is the only force that has complete power. 9. The struggle between what man desires and what integrity demands is eternal. 10.A mans past creates his present and his future. 11.Being human commits man to fulfilling his humanity. 12.Every man is morally responsible for his own actions. 13.

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