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* ''Theatre/DeathOfASalesman'': At what point should you just abandon your dreams if it looks like you can't achieve them?

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* ''Theatre/DeathOfASalesman'': At what point should you just abandon your dreams if it looks like you can't achieve them?Is being ordinary a bad thing? Is success the only measure of a man?
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* ''Theatre/TheOresteia'': To which parent to do you owe greater love?

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* ''Theatre/TheOresteia'': To which parent The CycleOfRevenge, to do you owe greater love?what extent {{Revenge}} is justified and how does one break out of the cycle.



* ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'': [[RousingSpeech The persuasive power of the spoken word]].

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* ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'': [[RousingSpeech The persuasive power of conflict between personal honor and the spoken word]].greater good. Whether a honorable man can retain honor after committing betrayal and in the face of defeat.



* ''Theatre/{{Medea}}'': Jealousy can be a deadly emotion.

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* ''Theatre/{{Medea}}'': Jealousy can be a deadly emotion.A WomanScorned with nowhere to seek justice will turn to revenge.
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* ''Music/{{Evita}}'': The one thing showbusiness and politics have in common: showmanship.

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* ''Music/{{Evita}}'': The one thing showbusiness and politics have in common: showmanship.showmanship.
* ''Theatre/{{Heathers}}'': High school, and on a larger scale the world, is a cruel place, but it can get better if people just stopped making fun of each other's insecurities.
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* ''Theatre/{{Evita}}'': The one thing showbusiness and politics have in common: showmanship.

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* ''Theatre/{{Evita}}'': ''Music/{{Evita}}'': The one thing showbusiness and politics have in common: showmanship.
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* ''Theater/{{Evita}}'': The one thing showbusiness and politics have in common: showmanship.

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* ''Theater/{{Evita}}'': ''Theatre/{{Evita}}'': The one thing showbusiness and politics have in common: showmanship.
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* ''Theater/{{Evita}}'': The one thing showbusiness and politics have in common: showmanship.

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* ''TwelveAngryMen'': How personal issues and hangups can cloud one's judgment.
* ''GlenGarryGlenRoss'': Persuasion.

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* ''TwelveAngryMen'': ''Film/TwelveAngryMen'': How personal issues and hangups can cloud one's judgment.
* ''GlenGarryGlenRoss'': ''Film/GlenGarryGlenRoss'': Persuasion.



** No one stays on top forever.



* ''AFewGoodMen'': Avoiding responsibility.
* ''CatOnAHotTinRoof'': What's left for a man [[BrokenPedestal with no one else to look up to?]]
* ''AStreetcarNamedDesire'': How should a man really treat a woman?

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* ''AFewGoodMen'': ''Film/AFewGoodMen'': Avoiding responsibility.
* ''CatOnAHotTinRoof'': ''Film/CatOnAHotTinRoof'': What's left for a man [[BrokenPedestal with no one else to look up to?]]
* ''AStreetcarNamedDesire'': ''Film/AStreetcarNamedDesire'': How should a man really treat a woman?



* ''TheGlassMenagerie'': Living in a fantasy world versus living in the real one.

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* ''TheGlassMenagerie'': ''Theatre/TheGlassMenagerie'': Living in a fantasy world versus living in the real one.



* ''RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead'' - Is man just a victim of his fate?

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* ''RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead'' ''Film/RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead'' - Is man just a victim of his fate?

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* The works of Creator/BobFosse deal a lot with being a celebrity.
** ''Theatre/{{Cabaret}}'': The relentless need to become famous.
** ''Theatre/{{Chicago}}'': What celebrities will do to stay on top, and the fleeting nature of fame.

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* The works of Creator/BobFosse deal a lot with being a celebrity.
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''Theatre/{{Cabaret}}'': The relentless need to become famous.
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Hiding away from the world.
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''Theatre/{{Chicago}}'': What celebrities will do to stay on top, and the The fleeting nature of fame.
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*''Theatre/LesMiserables'': Finding hope in a hopeless situation.
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* ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'': Love can be difficult, but also magical and beautiful

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* The works of ''Creator/BobFosse'' deal a lot with being a celebrity.

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* The works of ''Creator/BobFosse'' Creator/BobFosse deal a lot with being a celebrity.



* ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix'': The UsefulNotes/AmericanRevolution was started by flawed humans, not creatures of enlightened perfection, and it was not a ForegoneConclusion in the slightest.

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* ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix'': The UsefulNotes/AmericanRevolution was started by flawed humans, not creatures of enlightened perfection, and it was not a ForegoneConclusion in the slightest.slightest.
* ''Theatre/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' (2013 musical): The transformative power of imagination.
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* ''Theatre/{{Medea}}'': Jealousy can be a deadly emotion.

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* ''Theatre/{{Medea}}'': Jealousy can be a deadly emotion.emotion.
* ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix'': The UsefulNotes/AmericanRevolution was started by flawed humans, not creatures of enlightened perfection, and it was not a ForegoneConclusion in the slightest.
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* ''Theatre/{{Wicked}'': Good intentions can still have terrible ramifications, and that true friendship can be found in the most unlikely of places.

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* ''Theatre/{{Wicked}'': ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'': Good intentions can still have terrible ramifications, and that true friendship can be found in the most unlikely of places.
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* ''Theatre/Wicked'': Good intentions can still have terrible ramifications, and that true friendship can be found in the most unlikely of places.
* ''Theatre/Medea'': Jealousy can be a deadly emotion.

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* ''Theatre/Wicked'': ''Theatre/{{Wicked}'': Good intentions can still have terrible ramifications, and that true friendship can be found in the most unlikely of places.
* ''Theatre/Medea'': ''Theatre/{{Medea}}'': Jealousy can be a deadly emotion.

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* ''Teatre/Wicked'': Good intentions can still have terrible ramifications, and that true friendship can be found in the most unlikely of places.

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* ''Teatre/Wicked'': ''Theatre/Wicked'': Good intentions can still have terrible ramifications, and that true friendship can be found in the most unlikely of places.places.
* ''Theatre/Medea'': Jealousy can be a deadly emotion.
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** ''Theatre/{{Chicago}}'': What celebrities will do to stay on top.

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** ''Theatre/{{Chicago}}'': What celebrities will do to stay on top.top, and the fleeting nature of fame.
* ''Teatre/Wicked'': Good intentions can still have terrible ramifications, and that true friendship can be found in the most unlikely of places.
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* ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors'': The consequences of giving in to temptation and letting others dominate you.

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* ''Theatre/{{Chicago}}'': The fickleness of celebrity.



* ''Theatre/{{Cabaret}}'': The relentless ever changing world and how no one can hide from it.

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* *The works of ''Creator/BobFosse'' deal a lot with being a celebrity.
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''Theatre/{{Cabaret}}'': The relentless ever changing world and how no one can hide from it.need to become famous.
** ''Theatre/{{Chicago}}'': What celebrities will do to stay on top.
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** The relationships between fathers and sons.

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** The relationships between fathers and sons.sons.
* ''Theatre/{{Cabaret}}'': The relentless ever changing world and how no one can hide from it.

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* ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'': Obsession and madness, and how they can be the ruin of people.

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* ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'': Obsession and madness, Obsession, and how they can be it drives you mad.
** Or, according to [[WordOfGod Christopher Bond]], love, and
the ruin lengths people will go to because of people.it.
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* ''TheMerchantOfVenice'' - The price one must pay for one's deeds.
* ''RichardII'' - Do the ends justify the means?

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* ''TheMerchantOfVenice'' ''Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice'' - The price one must pay for one's deeds.
* ''RichardII'' ''Theatre/RichardII'' - Do the ends justify the means?
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** Also, people are bound and driven to find a scapegoat to avoid facing their own problems.
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** Fathers and Sons.

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** Fathers The relationships between fathers and Sons.sons.
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* ''HenryIV'' - How a quality of a man is measured by the company he keeps.

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* ''HenryIV'' - How a quality of a man is measured by the company he keeps.keeps.
** Fathers and Sons.
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* ''Theatre/AsYouLikeIt'': "All the world's a stage, and we are mearly but players."

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* ''Theatre/AsYouLikeIt'': "All the world's a stage, and we are mearly but merely players."



* ''HenryIV'' - How a quality of a man is measured the company he keeps.

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* ''HenryIV'' - How a quality of a man is measured by the company he keeps.
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* ''TheMerchantOfVenice'' - The price one must pay for one's deeds.

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* ''TheMerchantOfVenice'' - The price one must pay for one's deeds.deeds.
*''RichardII'' - Do the ends justify the means?
*''HenryIV'' - How a quality of a man is measured the company he keeps.
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* ''RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead'' - Is man just a victim of his fate?

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* ''RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead'' - Is man just a victim of his fate?fate?
*''TheMerchantOfVenice'' - The price one must pay for one's deeds.
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* ''Theatre/DeathOfASalesman'': At what point should you just abandon your dreams if it looks like you can't achieve them?
* ''Theatre/TheOresteia'': To which parent to do you owe greater love?
* ''[[Creator/HenrikIbsen The Wild Duck]]'': Some people live a lie but sometimes the lie is all they have.
* ''Theatre/ADollsHouse'': The inequalities and delusions between a man and a woman within marriage, and what effect these can have on the relationship between them.
* ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'': The pursuit of revenge and the things one loses along the way.
* ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'': What is the real role of women in marriage?
* ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'': [[RousingSpeech The persuasive power of the spoken word]].
* ''Theatre/{{Othello}}'': Jealousy.
* ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'': The cost of the pursuit of power.
* ''TwelveAngryMen'': How personal issues and hangups can cloud one's judgment.
* ''GlenGarryGlenRoss'': Persuasion.
** What it takes to make it in modern business, even if this means losing your soul in the process.
* ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'': The price of young and reckless love.
* ''Theatre/KingLear'': How madness can corrupt and give wisdom.
* ''Theatre/AsYouLikeIt'': "All the world's a stage, and we are mearly but players."
* ''Theatre/TheCrucible'': Religion can destroy people. Religion can turn someone to the side of the Devil. But it can also find the true goodness of a person that has been hidden.
* ''Theatre/OedipusRex'': [[ScrewDestiny Can we avoid our fate]], or [[SelfFulfillingProphecy is there only one path we can walk down?]]
** ''Theatre/{{Antigone}}'': What is more important: your duty to the state, or familial bonds? And how far will people go for each?
* ''Theatre/{{Coriolanus}}'': Democracy can be corrupted by any asshole who chooses to do so.
* ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus'': When a man acts upon revenge, and become part of its vicious cycle.
* ''Theatre/TimonOfAthens'': It is much better to be a misanthrope; you won't be hurt in the end.
* ''AFewGoodMen'': Avoiding responsibility.
* ''CatOnAHotTinRoof'': What's left for a man [[BrokenPedestal with no one else to look up to?]]
* ''AStreetcarNamedDesire'': How should a man really treat a woman?
* ''Theatre/HeddaGabler'': Freedom from societal and [[TheUnfettered moral]] constraints.
* ''Theatre/{{Chicago}}'': The fickleness of celebrity.
* ''TheGlassMenagerie'': Living in a fantasy world versus living in the real one.
* ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'': Obsession and madness, and how they can be the ruin of people.
* TheManWhoHadAllTheLuck: Luck's Guilt
* ''Ghosts'': The ideals of the old will come to haunt to new. Also, the sins of the father haunt the sons.
* TheFlies: One's true freedom starts at the absolution of guilt.
* ''RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead'' - Is man just a victim of his fate?

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