Recurring Themes
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Animals
see Animals
Black and White
see Black and White
Brothers
- Alexander and Clifford Widmore (Bad Twin)
- Charlie and Liam Pace
- Mr. Eko and Yemi
- Desmond refers to most of the men he speaks to as "brother."
- The fake Henry Gale drew the map to the balloon on the title page of the novel The Brothers Karamazov.
- Claire's son is named Aaron. Aaron was the older brother of Moses.
Cancer
- Many (mostly) minor characters have suffered from cancer;
- Most prominent is obviously Rose.
- Additionally, Thomas (Claire's ex-boyfriend), Diane Janssen (Kate's mother), Gayle Harrington (from a LOST novel), Peter Thompson (from the LOST experience), and (altogether more obscurely), a character in Walt's comic from season 1.
- It's worth noting that although characters in the show have suffered from cancer, it is one of the biggest killers in the developed world; in other words, people suffering from or dying of cancer is quite common.
Children
see Children
Deceptions and Cons
Dreams and Visions
Economics
see Economics
Eyes
- The first episode, and many others, open on close-ups of characters' eyes.
- Jack in "Pilot, Part 1" (Right eye)
- Locke in "Walkabout" (Right eye)
- Jack as a boy in "White Rabbit" (Right eye)
- Claire in "Raised by Another" (Right eye)
- Sun in "House of the Rising Sun" (Left eye)
- Jin in "...In Translation" (Right eye)
- Boone's in "Hearts and Minds"(Left eye)
- Sawyer as a boy in "Outlaws" (Left eye)
- Michael in "Special" (Left eye)
- Aaron in "Exodus: Part 2" (Left eye)
- Desmond in "Man of Science, Man of Faith" (Left eye)
- The 2nd track of the Lost Official Soundtrack is called 'The Eyeland'
- A glass eye is found in the Arrow.
- Sayid threatens to "take" Sawyer's eye.
- Charlie's tattoo reads: "Living is Easy with Eyes Closed"; this is a lyric from The Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever".
- Jack diagnoses Sawyer's headaches as a symptom of far-sightedness. From then on, Sawyer wears glasses whenever he reads.
- In Claire's dream, Locke appears with one white eye, one black.
- Locke has a scar across his right eye from the crash which is still visible two months later.
Fear
Specifically;
- Fear of the Sickness (especially by Danielle Rousseau).
- Fear of 'the end of the world', related to pushing the button (specifically by Locke, Desmond, Eko, and to a lesser, more ambiguous extent by Jack and Hurley)
- The Monster (or the Security System, "the black smoke", Cerberus); notable exceptions are Locke and Eko.
- The Numbers;
- The Others
- The safety of Aaron (especially by Charlie).
- Wild animals, like the polar bear.
Games
see Games
Healing Properties
Halves/Pairs
Some story elements seem to involve pairs, or the idea of two halves coming together.
- The passengers from the two halves of the plane are reunited.
- The two halves of the training film are spliced together when Mr. Eko brings the missing part of the film from the other side of the island.
- Rose and Bernard are reunited.
- At a more abstract level, reason and faith.
Hoarding
- Hurley stashed food for his own consumption.
- Sawyer collects weapons, medicines, books and whatever else catches his interest.
- Charlie hid several of the Virgin Mary figurines with heroin inside them.
see also: Economics
Isolation
- Separate groups (Losties, Tailies) finding each other.
- Separate relationships (Jack, Hurley, Locke, Sawyer, et al.) that aren't what they seem.
- Occupants of the swan have spent long periods of time in isolation from contact with the outside world.
- The idea that the Island is cut off somehow from the rest of the world.
- It cannot be found (as suggested by the fake Henry Gale).
- It is not possible to leave by simply sailing away, as demonstrated by both the raft's and Desmond's failed escape attempt.
Life and Death
see Life and Death
Missing Body Parts
- Ray Mullen's right arm.
- Dr. Marvin Candle's left arm.
- Montand lost his arm in the Dark Territory.
- During Boone's vision in "Hearts and Minds", Shannon is killed by the Monster and among her injuries, she's missing her right arm.
- Martha Toomey's leg, lost in a car accident allegedly caused by the Numbers.
- Jack had intended to amputate Boone's leg to save his life.
- Hibbs' left ring finger (unconfirmed).
- Nathan was to lose his finger if he didn't "talk" in the pit.
- Someone on the Island is likely missing an eye, as the Tailies found a glass eye at the Arrow station.
- The Australian police detective in "Hearts and Minds" may be wearing a glass eye.
- Locke sacrifices his kidney to (in his mind) save his father, Anthony Cooper.
- The Statue found by Sayid, Jin and Sun consists of a single, four-toed left foot, wearing a sandal.
- Vincent's possible namesake, the Dutch artist Van Gogh, cut off his own left ear.
The Next Life
- Nadia leaves a message to Sayid reading, "You'll find me in the next life, if not in this one."
- At the stadium, before he leaves, Desmond tells Jack "I'll see you in another life, yeah?"
- Charlotte Malkin apparently returns from the dead after drowning and meets Eko at the airport with a message from his deceased brother, Yemi.
- Whether she actually returned from the dead is disputed; both she and her mother claim she did, but her father says this claim was invented.
- Jack resuscitated Rose at the crash site.
- When the Pilot becomes animated, Jack and Kate are startled, as if he had come back to life.
- Charlie was hung by Ethan, died and was apparently brought back to life by Jack. He appears to have no memory of anything that he may have experienced while dead.
- Dave also says "See you in another life" to Hurley before jumping off the cliff.
- Ana Lucia appears to Eko in a dream just after she dies. The fact that she starts to bleed at the end of the dream at a time that Eko couldn't know she'd been shot indicates that it's a genuine from-beyond-the-grave vision.
The Numbers
- The Numbers are everywhere.
Parent Issues
see Parent Issues
Philosophy
- Several characters share names with famous philosophers:
- Boone Carlyle - Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle
- Danielle Rousseau - Swiss-French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Desmond Hume - Scottish philosopher David Hume
- John Locke - 17th century English philosopher of the same name
- A first-season episode, "Tabula Rasa", was named after a thesis developed by John Locke.
- Anthony Cooper, Locke's biological father, is named for Anthony Ashley Cooper, a 17th century English politician who was the patron of the actual John Locke. Locke was credited with saving Cooper following a liver operation.
Pregnancies
see Pregnancies
Rain
see Rain
