The same day his father died, his sister was born, and he turned nineteen. Does the idea of rebirth/coincidence have anything to do with how he slowly starts to become like his father as he grows older?

Why did Freud believe that the liberation of an individual is a painful process? Did he think this because he recognized the pain from his own experiences?

Lovina walked to the 6 train from her building, during the two minute walk she suffered from the chilly weather. Why had she decided to go outside that day? The uphill battle from third avenue to Lexington was tiring her out already. Approaching the train, she got ready to pull out her metro card and run down the stairs. The twenty-minute ride seemed so long due to the crowded hot sticky atmosphere. This only tired her out more. When she arrived at 23^rd street she made a beeline towards Starbucks.  The change of atmosphere was almost startling, it was unbelievably busy with a bustling loud crowd of students ordering and waiting for their morning fix of caffeine. At that moment she realized she had only ten minutes to make it to the vertical campus and hope that the dreaded elevator would come in time for her to sprint to class. She made it just in time but not before knocking into Tina who stared her down and looked down upon her, but Lovina couldn’t be bothered because she had one mission, which was just to get to class.

Why does T.S Eliot use the symbol of water to portray the ideas of life and death? How does he accomplish having water represent both the good and bad.

When Gregor realizes what he has transformed into why doesn’t he wonder how or why it happened. Also, why doesn’t he try to solve his problem or try to return to his original state?

Why did William Blake structure his work the way he did? Do the lines indented have any significance compared to the other lines?

He proclaims that human life is merely “a sleep and a forgetting”—that human beings dwell in a purer, more glorious realm before they enter the earth. Why does he think that as children we still retain memories of that place? and what significance does this have on how we grow up and forget the “magic”?

Why was the king unsatisfied with his life? Even after his last 400 years as a ruler being described as perfect happiness in a blessed land with feasts and lavishness on their divine continent.

Descartes had been brought up in an educational method that claimed it would teach him everything he needed to know in order to pursue knowledge and get by in the world. Why did Descartes find his education unsatisfying? How does this reflect onto his philosophy?