Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
Antigone 1003 ces and Eteocles, both seek the throne, which results in a war between them. There are different versions of the s ...
1004 sophocles stronger, which, of course, is an injustice in itself, though one to which they and all women of that time were a ...
Oedipus Rex 1005 In the play, Oedipus’s parents, Laius and Jocasta, king and queen of Thebes, have received a prophecy that he w ...
1006 sophocles fortune; he slew the maiden with crooked talons who sang darkly; he arose from our land as a tower against death ...
Oedipus Rex 1007 Oedipus repeatedly proclaims the supremacy of the gods and the importance of pledging them what they are due: “ ...
1008 steinbeck, John of Zeus, seek the help of Oedipus, whom they call “best of mortals,” while the rest of the city seeks the w ...
Cannery Row 1009 longer work; and Henri, a painter who loves boats but fears the sea. Through these tales, Steinbeck comments wr ...
1010 steinbeck, John tion are recast as deviant, while seemingly unorthodox approaches to happiness are celebrated and shown as ...
Cannery Row 1011 Among its many strengths, one of Cannery Row’s most impressive accomplishments is the way it shows the interpen ...
1012 steinbeck, John Thus, while it is not as overtly political as some of Steinbeck’s other novels (especially his famous 1939 ...
The Grapes of Wrath 1013 on farmers who suffer further degradation as the sons of their former neighbors arrive on one of the mo ...
1014 steinbeck, John he should travel with them, gathering in a circle around their truck while Casy, the outsider, waits beyond ...
Of Mice and Men 1015 and sexual, were just as aroused as he was. This started Casy on a long process of spiritual question- ing, ...
1016 steinbeck, John finish the sentence by exclaiming, “And live off the fatta the lan.” George’s imagined future, repeated thr ...
Of Mice and Men 1017 with the boss, the wages, or the conditions at one ranch, they can always pick up and move on to the next. ...
1018 steinbeck, John are the loneliest guys in the world,” George tells his weak-minded traveling companion Lennie. “They got no ...
The Pearl 1019 and jealousy. Steinbeck himself describes the story as “a parable,” a moral tale which can apply universally. Liv ...
1020 steinbeck, John Stories like that of Kino and the great pearl also function as parables of applied group wisdom and enforce ...
The Pearl 1021 individual competition for resources and power. Human culture and history inscribe the material objects of Kino’s ...
1022 steinbeck, John cannot occur until the pearl has been exorcised. The story remains in the collective memory as a cautionary ...
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