1. DE SICA: Religious symbolism of
The "neighborhood, the house, the furniture and the personal belongings- (Cottrell13) reflect the characters' natures. ... For Cesira, nature is "the sheltering setting for refugees who are able to discover human values in the midst of war (Prigozy 85). ... Cesira, in accepting the capitalist way of life, is spiritually dead, as regulating the economy solely by centralized planning perverts the basis of social justice, since "there are many human needs which cannot be satisfied by the market- (CA 34). Cesira's self-centered attitude toward life blinds her to her own non-existence ...
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