Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
A Modest Proposal 1043 the wealthy for food. The essay uses unsentimental agricultural and economic language to emphasize the be ...
1044 swift, Jonathan near the end of the essay. In A Modest Proposal, this includes a long litany of “other expedients” in favor ...
A Modest Proposal 1045 is, therefore, not the poor Swift means to criticize and chastise but the rich, particularly those who ad ...
1046 synge, John Millington After reading A Modest Proposal, the reader understands the suffering of the Irish and the indiffere ...
The Playboy of the Western World 1047 match for the women. The aura of excitement that surrounds his act gives him entrance into ...
1048 synge, John Millington The crime of murder gilds Christy with a romantic aura and fascinates Pegeen and the oth- ers. Pegee ...
The Joy Luck Club 1049 run throughout any family must seem clear to the small group, and the reaction to the murder makes it cle ...
1050 Tan, Amy they reveal that one thing all of the women have in common is how constrained they feel their lives have been beca ...
The Joy Luck Club 1051 the first time in China that Jing-mei finally accepts that her Chinese self is more than genetics, it is ...
1052 Tennyson, Lord Alfred reGret in The Joy Luck Club The Joy Luck Club is a novel filled with regrets. Each character suffers ...
In Memoriam A. H. H 1053 lam, Tennyson’s closest friend, in 1833. Hallam was traveling in Vienna at the time, and Tennyson com- ...
1054 Tennyson, Lord Alfred injury that Hallam’s death wrought within him. The end result is that the poet’s grief helps him to b ...
In Memoriam A. H. H 1055 ever, memories of Hallam and the times they shared motivate the poet’s spiritual growth toward hope and ...
1056 Tennyson, Lord Alfred survives and is a part of his life, albeit in a new and different form. The loss of his young friend ...
“Civil Disobedience” 1057 THorEau, HENry DaviD “Civil Disobedience” (“resistance to Civil Government”) (1849) Henry David Thorea ...
1058 Thoreau, Henry David stake, fear change and may actually benefit from the status quo. In such a situation, Thoreau conclude ...
“Civil Disobedience” 1059 “the true place for a just man is also a prison.” His Concord neighbors now seemed to him to be people ...
1060 Thoreau, Henry David Masking a radical argument in a conservative- looking cloak, the early paragraphs of the essay can mis ...
Walden 1061 IndIvIduaL and SocIety in Walden As well as being a long essay on the wonders of the natural world, Walden is a work ...
1062 Thoreau, Henry David it as an artistic model, as a source of sustenance, as a moral teacher, and as a manifestation of divi ...
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