Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
The Taming of the Shrew 963 conceit, a type of elaborate, striking metaphor paral- leling two dissimilar things; in this case, R ...
964 shakespeare, William the successful performance of feminine gender. Wit- nessing Bianca’s agreement to “humbly subscribe” to ...
The Taming of the Shrew 965 the communion wine as if he were at a pub, and lec- tures the wedding guests on the Tenth Command- m ...
966 shakespeare, William Comparing unruly women to animals in need of taming was commonplace in Shakespeare’s day. If a man coul ...
The Tempest 967 magic, takes command of the island, and enacts his revenge plot to bring his usurping brother and his cohort to ...
968 shakespeare, William spirits live and roam; thus, his existence and physi- cal place combines all things both fascinating an ...
The Tempest 969 Prospero and Miranda value words, whether they be written or spoken, and Caliban values his life and island, and ...
970 shakespeare, William ‘gainst my fury / Do I take part. The rarer action is / In virtue than in vengeance” (5.1.26–28). Becau ...
Twelfth Night 971 (1.1.28). Orsino accuses Olivia of disrupting the normal order of the community by refusing his love, because ...
972 shakespeare, William she asks the surviving sailors what chance they think there is that her brother also survived: “Perchan ...
Pygmalion 973 ings of love for Olivia by overindulging them with romantic music. Orsino asks his court musicians to glut his fee ...
974 shaw, George Bernard of Pygmalion, which was premiered in German in Vienna in 1913. The play is a modern interpretation of a ...
Pygmalion 975 is impeccable, because of the “genteel poverty” of his family, Freddy Eynsford Hill’s schooling was very limited: ...
976 shaw, George Bernard corner of Tottenham Court Road,” meaning that she was more independent as a flower girl than as a lady. ...
Frankenstein 977 social standing. Thus, although the class structure described in Pygmalion is shown to be based on arbitrary cr ...
978 shelley, Mary Victor recounts a more auspiciously begun edu- cation, one over which his father—at least ini- tially—has cons ...
Frankenstein 979 reSponSIbILIty in Frankenstein Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein explores what it means to be responsible ...
980 shelley, Mary Victor can no longer act of his own free will. What is more, he cannot be recognized as the agent of his own w ...
poems 981 scientifical.” Even after he has been warned by his university professors that his favorite authors are obsolete, he “ ...
982 shelley, Percy Bysshe peers, or spies” (ll. 28–29) and led by Anarchy, “On [whose] brow this mark I saw— / “I AM GOD, AND KI ...
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