Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
Candide 1103 by his ally Evander, Aeneas becomes filled with a rage even greater, and more savage, than that of his enemy. In th ...
1104 Voltaire they help prompt Candide into leaving the utopia that is Eldorado, the only place where everything does, in effect ...
Candide 1105 geographical displacement from Europe to South America and back, Voltaire establishes that misery, injustice, and u ...
1106 Vonnegut, Kurt degraded time and again by rape, prostitution and torture. Everyone in the story is exposed to, and affected ...
Cat’s Cradle 1107 the unleashing of ice-nine on the world in the light of the philosophies of the spiritual leader Bokonon by de ...
1108 Vonnegut, Kurt his own responsibility as a recorder of history; to the responsibility of politicians and religious leaders ...
Cat’s Cradle 1109 asks ironically.” Being responsible for writing history does not mean that others will act responsibly with th ...
1110 Vonnegut, Kurt the mud that got to sit up and look around.” Link- ing humanity to the mud in this way, Bokonon, who is alle ...
Slaughterhouse-Five 1111 another American, pledges to avenge his death by killing Pilgrim. The wartime ethics of comradeship and ...
1112 Vonnegut, Kurt Weary, a fellow soldier, saves Billy’s life even when Billy himself no longer wishes to live. Yet Weary’s po ...
The Color Purple 1113 Pilgrim is a victim of two forms of violence: that which is threatened physically and that which is delive ...
1114 Walker, Alice educatIon in The Color Purple Throughout her abusive childhood, Celie is con- tinually denied an education; t ...
The Color Purple 1115 tic and sexual slave. “Mr.” treats her with contempt as he punishes Celie for his own regrets over his ill ...
1116 Washington, Booker T. it is all she is good for. The suffering woman is thus dehumanized; indeed, she pretends to be a piec ...
Up from Slavery 1117 hall. All students at Hampton were expected to do manual labor to earn part of their room and board, and th ...
1118 Washington, Booker T. of success when he could sit in a school classroom and learn, or when he could have all the ginger co ...
The Optimist’s Daughter 1119 Mrs. Ruffner’s, a northern lady known to be unrea- sonably strict with her boy servants, who never ...
1120 Welty, Eudora Welty emphasizes human relationships in the narrative over plot, which may seem unusual to some readers. Howe ...
The Optimist’s Daughter 1121 individual’s identity. It exerts a profound influence over the individual and her identity, and she ...
1122 Wharton, Edith This freeing of memory at the end of the novel might seem oddly placed in a text where it appears to be driv ...
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