Instead of focusing exclusively on the main character, Jung assumed that each and every character, obstacle, and theme represents an aspect of our inner lives.

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Yet Conan Doyle did almost as much as Dickens to establish another enduring theme of London-lit: that every character conceals a secret.

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She is the character who represents the message of the story and the theme of faith, and as such she changes the least of anybody in the film.

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If character is the measure in this election ... and hope the theme ... and change the goal we share, then I ask you to join our cause.

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Her general theme is that Ulster's Catholics and Protestants have shaped each other's character and political history, and even the nature of their religion: church attendance was always an obsession of each denomination.

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