Passion Themes

Things change. Sound familiar? It's one of those ideas we see and hear so often that it can sometimes lose its meaning. But "Passion" is all about recognizing how things change. For instance, thing...

It's easy to confuse gender with sex ("sex" as in biological identity). Gender seems to have more of a social or cultural meaning. And the effect of social/cultural definitions of gender is a big c...

It's big. It's complicated! It's sexuality—a word that gets thrown around in order to describe both sexual preference and a person's capacity for sexual feelings. It's a subject that can be furth...

You could argue that "Passion" is primarily about an old woman trying to reconstruct her past, which is an activity we all engage in. We often talk about nostalgia and find ways to create it. It ca...

Dreams, hopes, and plans seem to swirl in and out and amid everything that happens in "Passion." Grace dreams about romance and has plans to someday do something that doesn't involve caning chairs....

Warm nostalgic glows, summer vacation, first love, teddy bears, and sleepovers—we all tend to agree these things fall into the "nice" category. A lot of that may have to do with an idea that thes...