Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature

154 Anaya, Rudolfo answers that he is a painter, but he is quick to qualify his answer by distancing his painting from any sense ...

Bless Me, Ultima 155 of-age theme works on several levels. Through the six-year-old protagonist, Antonio, Anaya affirms a new Ch ...

156 Anaya, Rudolfo extended family are the focus of Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima. The parents of the six-year-old protagonis ...

Winesburg, Ohio 157 offered a renewed sense of pride in la raza (the race) and its most intrinsic unit, la familia. Elizabeth Mc ...

158 Anderson, Sherwood dominated by one idea become grotesque, even if that one idea is true. The stories, each focusing on a pa ...

Winesburg, Ohio 159 particular, are led by society to believe that they can find what they long for by becoming involved with a ...

160 Maya Angelou there is a secret something that is striving to grow. It is the thing I let be killed in myself.” On rare occas ...

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 161 her children,” she explains. When, one year, the sib- lings suddenly receive Christmas prese ...

162 Maya Angelou mother, but before the novel ends, the siblings have moved back and forth a couple of times. The instability of ...

Beowulf 163 vegetables. All night they heard him mourn from his hiding place “as if he had, in fact, been guilty of some heinous ...

164 Anonymous such prominent themes as community, religion, violence, and revenge. Tony Perrello cOmmunity in Beowulf The basic ...

Beowulf 165 Grendel’s mother proves a tougher challenge for Beowulf than does her son, but the dragon costs him his life. The dr ...

166 Anonymous described with language recalling hell in Old En- glish homilies. More obvious is Beowulf ’s journey to seek out t ...

The Frogs 167 substituting gold in its stead. The threat of revenge afforded some safety in Anglo-Saxon culture, a world where e ...

168 Aristophanes functions served by poets; the other is to provide entertainment: “We chorus folk two privileges prize: / To am ...

The Frogs 169 ation by Dionysus, whose concluding judgment is the vehicle for the author’s take-home political mes- sage. Dionys ...

170 Aristophanes the god’s sensuousness, while Xanthias’s slowness in picking up the maid’s meaning exposes his rela- tive naïve ...

Lysistrata 171 Xanthias and Dionysus and between Aeschylus and Euripides, which are empowered by direct dia- logue. Euripides, o ...

172 Aristophanes women make love and as long as human beings try to kill one another, and thus, sex and war remain fundamental t ...

Lysistrata 173 as a fifth-century Athenian male citizen could have been. It is probable that some of his literary and public att ...