ENG FIFTH BUSINESS MR. SAITZ The major themes in the novel are: 1. guilt and its debilitating effects. 2. illusion versus reality which includes the aspects of: -faith and reality. -reality versus "psychological truth" -good and evil -myth and reality and how myth becomes reality and vice versa -hagiology and "underworld hagiology" 3. religion and its effects on personality 4. the lifelong effects of childhood and family 5. the personality and how it causes two or more people to be affected differently by the same events. 6. Jungian psychology which ties into all of the above because of concepts such as: --the shadow and personna --the four parts of the personality such as sensation, emotion, intellect, and intuition --anema figures and their shaping of our relationships --individuation or the becoming whole --the unlived life Decide which of the above is illustrated by each of the following quotes (numbers are page numbers) 1. "...being young and unwilling to recognize that there was anything I did not, or could not know, I decided that this unknown aspect must be called madness." (53) 2. "She lived by a light that arose from within; I could not comprehend it." (52) 3. "But what I knew then was that nobody--not even my mother--was to be trusted in a strange world that showed very little of itself on the surface." (36) 4. "I had no intention of being anybody's own dear laddie, ever again." (88) 5.""So you provide romance," I said." "I provide somethng that strengthens faith". (132) 6. "...because we love the saint and want him to be more like ourselves, we attribute some imperfection to him." (172) 7. "If you think her a saint, she is a saint to you."(174) turn over>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Fifth Business Quotes and themes p.2 Mr. Saitz 8. "I was determined that if I could not take care of Mrs. Dempster, nobody else should do it. She was mine." (180) 9. "I was trying to get at the subject without wearing either the pink spectacles of faith or the green spectacles of science." (200). 10. "Working on these illusions was delightful but destructive of my character. I was aware that I was recapturing the best of my childhood; my imagination had never known such glorious freedom...I knew that something was terribly wrong with Dunstan Ramsay." (215) 11. "Now you have taken a tumble and found yourself in the middle of the fight, and you are whimpering because it is rough." (222) 12. "...Christians without Christ. Those are the worst; they have the cruelty of doctrine without the poetic grace of myth." (226) 13. "A truly mythological wish...." (242) 14. "As we neared our sixties the cloaks we had wrapped about our essential selves were wearing thin." (242) 15. "...then I wept...and it frightened and hurt me." (244) 16."I'm simply trying to recover something of the totality of your life. Don't you want to possess is as a whole--the bad with the good?" (264)