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King Edward I erected a total of 12 monuments in memory of his deceased wife, Eleanor of Castile, across England. -
A depiction of Ivan the Terrible's immediate horror and regret following the striking and killing of his son (perhaps mythologized) -
In the backdrop of 1940s Brooklyn, the memory plays depicts the suicide of protagonist Willy Loman as the summation of betraying his family and the tragic failure of pursuing his (flawed) dreams -
Nagisha Oshima's film follows a nymphomaniac woman who fails at every turn to gain the attention of the men around her who are obsessed with the violence of an impending gang war as a reflection of Japan's "death drive" in the postwar years. https://youtu.be/n1J9Migw-zQ?si=GL37Mg3xZFX3_mB3 -
Written by Jim Morrison, the singer explains in various interviews the fluid meanings of his song; what was once a "goodbye" song would, in his mind, become a message of death in the sense of ridding yourself of anything alien and a returning to your original self which Morrison would correlate to the story of Oedipus who killed his father (alien concepts) and married his mother (the natural self). https://youtu.be/BXqPNlng6uI?si=uHdlJdleK1x8Fdtb