Marren's research, however, reveals a long tradition of butterflies representing dark desires, fallen angels, temptation and death.
But if that primitive resonance is not achieved, storytellers are failing to fulfil what is perhaps their primary function, which is therapeutic – to act as an echo chamber to our deepest fears and desires, and thus help to integrate them into a healthy personality.
Each student will be given the opportunity to talk about their desires and fears and their past writing experience (if it applies), and their literary tastes.
Hannibal decides to spare his life, possibly because he desires connection with someone again, like he had with Will before he betrayed him.
Each also desires to co-operate with their former rulers if independence is achieved.
She and her husband Marcus own a Minnesota clinic where counsellors encourage gay people to pray to rid themselves of same-sex desires.
Advertising is a mirror to society, reflecting its fears and desires, and to succeed it has to remain in step with society.
It places people in difficult positions: they must forfeit their personal convictions and desires in order to appease society or choose to defy the status quo and unrepentantly be themselves at the risk of being misjudged and even mistreated.
Now, is it just me or would you, when looking to run the entire country, base your plans around the imaginary desires of entirely fictitious people from Christmas telly adverts and their covetousness towards Le Creuset casseroles?
That totally natural instinct does not make the dangerous fallout from our complicated desires our fault – Dionte Greene is not to blame for his own death – but it does mean we need to account for the danger.
In his great novel of the 1930s, Voyage au bout de la nuit (Journey to the End of the Night), praised by Orwell and Trotsky, Céline also said that "all of the desires of the poor are punished by prison".
