Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
The Red Pony 1023 Gabilan’s care, but even the expert cannot save the colt. Jody is heartbroken. The consequences of this and th ...
1024 steinbeck, John leaves them for his mother to find. He is responsible for keeping the wood box full for the kitchen, gath- ...
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1025 Jody Tiflin, the young protagonist of these stories, knows very little of the w ...
1026 stevenson, Robert Louis From an early age, Jekyll finds it hard to reconcile his “impatient gaiety of disposition” with a n ...
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1027 among [his] fellow-men.” However, he is secretly stifled by social conventions ...
1028 stevenson, Robert Louis Shelley’s franKenStein (1818), Stevenson’s tale warns of the potential dangers of science when it i ...
Treasure Island 1029 they devised. Even though the novel was aimed at and appealed to children—and still does—Treasure Island al ...
1030 stevenson, Robert Louis downplays his achievement by commenting that “a child” could have seen through the pirate. Fur- the ...
Treasure Island 1031 extraordinary acts of heroism that cannot be experi- enced in ordinary life. What is more, while Treasure I ...
1032 stoker, Bram “I puts it all away.” There is more than one side to Long John, and his cunning manipulation of lan- guage and ...
Dracula 1033 strosity with gender transgression, suggesting that one reason he is a monster is precisely because he breaks the g ...
1034 stoker, Bram sexual transgression is associated with a specific geographical area, the East. Consequently, Harker thinks th ...
Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1035 of Medusa’s snakes.” The phallic snakes suggest a monstrous masculine femininity, a woman who has usurped ...
1036 stowe, Harriet Beecher FamILy in Uncle Tom’s Cabin Uncle Tom’s Cabin demonstrates the evils of slavery, in part, by illustr ...
Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1037 race in Uncle Tom’s Cabin It is understandable that readers of Uncle Tom’s Cabin might find the depiction ...
1038 stowe, Harriet Beecher head, it wouldn’t do no good neither,—I’s nothin’ but a nigger, no ways!” Pressed by Eva as to wheth ...
Gulliver’s Travels 1039 to be as I say!” While Tom is a dutiful laborer on Legree’s miserable plantation, he does not submit his ...
1040 swift, Jonathan employment and high favour at court.” Whenever a government vacancy occurs, interested individuals ask to e ...
Gulliver’s Travels 1041 including the estimate that “eleven thousand per- sons have . . . suffered death rather than submit to ...
1042 swift, Jonathan bladders contained “a small quantity of dried Pease, or little Pebbles” and that the servants frequently “f ...
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