Significant Connections Planning – Layton's Online Journal

	Gattaca	Cars	Macbeth	Ozymandias
Ideas	Human ambition is a positive drive when there are challenges to overcome. Vincent overcomes seemingly impossible challenges with his ambition. Considered something good and very useful, also gives message on how ambition is stronger the more human you are.	Ambition can lead you to unwanted places. Doc Hudson wanted to become the best and win all races, but realized that this isn’t what he wanted, and he had no family. Ambition blinded him to the true pleasures of life; family and friends.	Ambition can be dangerous when unbalanced by morality. Macbeth is very ambition and allows it to take over, not balancing it with morality, and it leads to his death. Portrayed as dangerous, and gives a warning on the possible effect.	No matter how much you achieve, it will always come to pass. The king creates a huge legacy with the statue but it all turns to dust and nothing. Gives a new message on how everything eventually comes to nothing.
Method	Symbolism: Swimming	Symbolism: Piston Cup	Symbolism: Crown	Symbolism: Statue
Quote	“I never saved anything for the swim back.”	“All I see is a bunch of empty cups.”	“Upon my head they lay a fruitless crown.”	“Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.”