Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
Common Sense 863 ing of ourselves, so the second, claimed as a matter of right, is an insult and imposition on posterity.” His a ...
864 Paton, Alan PaToN, aLaN Cry, the Beloved Country (1948) Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country is a tale set in pre-apartheid ...
Cry, the Beloved Country 865 has spent time in a reform school and has recently disappeared. During his disappearance, it is rev ...
866 Paton, Alan crime. He writes, “The old tribal system was, for all its violence and savagery, for all its superstition and wi ...
Six Characters in Search of an Author 867 and tend to his sibling. Kumalo’s arrival at Johannes- burg reveals a city that suffer ...
868 Pirandello, Luigi color, than the “real” actors. The lighting of the six characters is also different, and their expressions ...
The Bell Jar 869 prostitution. One of the men who tried to buy her services turned out to be her mother’s first husband, the gir ...
870 Plath, sylvia begin to fall apart, however, her sense of identity also fractures, and she begins to sink into depres- sion a ...
The Bell Jar 871 mind, they are self-exclusive, forcing her to choose only one. In her indecision, each opportunity shriv- els u ...
872 Plath, sylvia self-exclusionary and she is forced to choose. What finally sparks her depression and suicide attempt is her f ...
“The Fall of the House of Usher” 873 absolves Buddy of responsibility (for her breakdown and Joan’s suicide) near the end, the a ...
874 Poe, Edgar Allan Usher family members are meeting their respective demises. The narrator carefully observes the “vacant eye- ...
“The Fall of the House of Usher” 875 house) and that of Roderick Usher himself. “It was with difficulty that I could bring mysel ...
876 Poe, Edgar Allan disorder. First, Usher’s illness is the reason the nar- rator, who has maintained only a limited friendship ...
“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” 877 In the story, Dupin and the narrator investigate the mysterious double murder of Madame and ...
878 Poe, Edgar Allan and all the individuals it involves; he maintains, in other words, his habitual distance from society. This ...
“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” 879 leads the narrator to conclude that the crimes have been committed by a madman, but then he ...
880 Poe, Edgar Allan of nationalistic thinking when Dupin states: “My ultimate object is only the truth. My immediate purpose is ...
“The Tell-Tale Heart” 881 the protagonist seems to enjoy the malicious mind games that he inflicts upon the old man: “I knew tha ...
882 Poe, Edgar Allan of life with his eyes metaphorically shut and now in old age, as death approaches, cannot even keep them cl ...
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