Themes -- Purpose of Life
Purpose of Life: involving the many different, sometimes conflicting, senses of ultimate purpose driving or surrounding the novel's characters.
1.1.1
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("Until the decline of life")
1.1.6
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("The moral relations of things") [1831 only]
1.2.2
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("Forgetful of herself")
1.2.3
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("Trader")
1.5.5
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("Gossip")
1.7.1
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("Lawless devices")
1.7.10
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("Make others so")
2.1.1
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("Make myself useful")
2.1.1
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("Daily usefulness")
2.2.2
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("If our impulses were confined")
2.2.4
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("Dare you sport thus with life")
2.7.2
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("What ... destination?")
3.3.6
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("Wearing away his time fruitlessly") [1831 only]
Walton 4
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("Such is not my destiny")
Walton 7
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("Smooth and placid as a southern sea")
Walton 9
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("I will not")
Walton 11
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("Yet another may succeed")
