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Grief

Violence / Abuse

Class inequalities

Stereotyping

Spirituality

People often struggle to choose between right and wrong

Identity

Individual rights vs the rights of the group

Individuals often find themselves in conflict with the forces of society

People believe the truth that most suits their view of the world

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People often struggle to choose between right and wrong

Individual rights vs the rights of the group

Individuals often find themselves in conflict with the forces of society

People believe the truth that most suits their view of the world

In times of suspicion, truth is often the first casualty

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People often struggle to choose between right and wrong

Individual rights vs. the rights of the group

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People often struggle to choose between right and wrong

Individual rights vs. the rights of the group

People believe the truth that most suits their view of the world

In times of suspicion, truth is often the first casualty

Individuals often find themselves in conflict with the forces of society

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People often struggle to choose between right and wrong

Individual rights vs. the rights of the group

People believe the truth that most suits their view of the world

Individuals often find themselves in conflict with the forces of society

In times of suspicion, truth is often the first casualty

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Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts

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Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts

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Identity

Self-Image

Grief / Loss

Overcoming Adversity

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Prejudice

Anxiety / Mental Health

Anthropomorphism in fantasy writing

Otherness / being 'othered'

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Victorian / Colonial greed / Class

Land displacement and cultural erasure - extraction / exploitation / legal disposession

Fate & agency - astrological determinism versus free will

Morality - the nature of truth

Systems of law

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Post colonialism

Systemic poverty

Disintegration of traditional Māori structures/whakapapa

People often struggle to choose between right and wrong

Individuals often find themselves in conflict with the forces of society

Spirituality and being connected to culture / religion

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Cultural hybridity

Cycles of violence

Isolation and connection

Healing through land / Tuhonotanga

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Faith & religion - the nature of truth - science & spirituality

Survival

Willpower

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Bioethics

Nature vs. nurture

Collectivism vs. individualism

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People often struggle to choose between right and wrong.

Individuals often find themselves in conflict with the forces of society.

In times of suspicion, truth is often the first casualty.

People believe the truth that most suits their view of the world.

Individual rights vs the rights of the group

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War is hell

The burden of impossible promises

The weight of failure

Apathy of nature

Temporal dislocation

Loss of agency

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People often struggle to choose between right and wrong

Individuals often find themselves in conflict with the forces of society

In times of suspicion, truth is often the first casualty

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Tu pono

Misuse of power

Science v religion

Bearing the burden

People often struggle to choose between right and wrong.

Individuals often find themselves in conflict with the forces of society.

In times of suspicion, truth is often the first casualty.

People believe the truth that most suits their view of the world.

Individual rights vs the rights of the group

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Moral bankruptcy

Grief/loss

Bearing the burden

Individuals often find themselves in conflict with the forces of society

People believe the truth that most suits their view of the world

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Identity and individualism

Power of language

Sacrifice and transformation

The nature of time

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Existential autonomy

Ethics of survival

Temporal distortion

Collective vs. individual identity

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Idealistic individualism

The indifference of nature

Hubris of romanticism

Paternal legacy

Solitude vs. isolation

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Utopia v dystopia

Equal opportunities

Justice v corruption

People often struggle to choose between right and wrong

Individuals often find themselves in conflict with the forces of society

In times of suspicion, truth is often the first casualty

People believe the truth that most suits their view of the world

Individual rights vs. rights of the group

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Familial conflict

Overcoming adversity

Power of education

Individuals often find themselves in conflict with the forces of society

People believe the truth that most suits their view of the world

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Dystopian institutional power, control and oppression dynamics

Politicisation of the female body

Identity

Environmental colla[pse

Rise of religious fundamentalism

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Change as divinity

Hyperempathy and community

Environmental and social decay

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Social stratification and individual merit

Moral discernment

Reputation and familial responsibility

Familial conflict

Gender and society

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Interactionality vs. agency

Sterile vs. visceral

Fractured realities and identity

Free will/ self determination

Utopia v dystopia

Power and control

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Elitism

Hamartia

Social isolation / Belonging

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Agency and self-determination

Burden of immortality

Isolation vs. solitude

Motherhood

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Meta-fiction

Nature of guilt

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Post colonialism

Systemic poverty

Disintegration of traditional Māori structures/whakapapa

Chaos and Destruction

Power and control

Bearing the burden

Spirituality and being connected to culture/religion

People often struggle to choose between right and wrong

Individuals often find themselves in conflict with the forces of society

People believe the truth that most suits their view of the world

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Nature vs. nurture

Hubris of creation / danger of forbidden knowledge

Alienation and social rejection

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Fragility of civilisation

Ethics of survival

Paternal love

Existential despair

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Enlightenment rationality versus animalistic instinct

The nature of identity

Existential crisis

Connection between lack of personal scent and 'self'

Humanity's desire to be deceived by beauty

Potential link from Perfume to the obsession of Macbeth

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Intertextuality

Power of literature

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Survival

Moral choice

Long shadow of trauma

Resilience

How personal testimony shapes readers’ values and responses

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Patriarchy

Nationalism

Body politics

Subversion of genre conventions

Feminism

How intertextuality reshapes familiar myths for modern audiences

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Language / translation

Empire

Power

Complicity

Resistance

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Cultural appropriation

Performance of identity

Ethics

Representation

Unreliable narration

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Analysis of irony

Social critique

Manipulation of genre expectations

How satire exposes power and gender norms.

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How misreading people and situations, social status, and “good intentions” create ethical consequences within a tightly controlled society.

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The social, legal, and identity implications of hate crime

How structure, sourcing, and viewpoint shape empathy and argument around justice and harm

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Bioethical questions

How structure and viewpoint guide readers’ judgments

What does it mean to be human

Identity

Familial conflict

Misuse of power

Free will/ self determination

The power of choice

Body politics

The ends don't justify the means / villains with good intentions

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Critique of freedom narratives

Masculinity

Myth-making of travel

Cultural context of those whose experiences are centred or erased.

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Class

Familial expectations

Societal expectations (perceived and real)

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Fear

Empathy

Community responsibility

How withheld information shapes reader alignment

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Dystopia

Propaganda

Resistance

Power

Gender