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I'd like your OPINION, please to use for my research paper of literary criticisms pertaining to the themes, symbols, and motifs in the play. As we are not given time to READ the play, help in this decision would be most beneficial. Thanks!

aggression, ceremony/ritual, Christian elements, class conflict, comic elements, economics, fame, family, fire/water, flattery, friendship, gender issues, honor/integrity, identity, irony/satire, manliness, music, significance of naming, parent-child relations, politics, public vs private worlds, roleplaying, sexuality, shame, silence, slander, society, treachery, war

pertaining only to Coriolanus-{ambition, anger/passion, immaturity, inhumanity, introspection/self-knowledge, isolation/autonomy, manipulation by others, modesty, narcissism, nobility, pride/arrogance, reconciliation with society, socially destructive force, traitorous actions}