Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
The Age of Innocence 1123 this love triangle, Wharton explores the themes of love, community, and social class in the novel. Wha ...
1124 Wharton, Edith by sacrificing his own desires that Newland feels he can be happy. Sherah Wells Love in The Age of Innocence ...
The Age of Innocence 1125 his and Ellen’s relationship, and in this Wharton may be seen to indicate that this is as much a part ...
1126 Wharton, Edith As a result, she calls into question assumptions Newland and the rest of New York society have regarding soc ...
Ethan Frome 1127 does not participate in social functions. In addition, few people visit the Fromes; the narrator learns he is o ...
1128 Wharton, Edith but Zeena has lost such a position in the Frome household, and Mattie only further complicates Zeena’s stand ...
The House of Mirth 1129 was better than the one she now shares with Ethan. She claims to be sick much of the time, and her ill- ...
1130 Wharton, Edith looks had a commercial value. While engaged in her quest for Percy Gryce’s attentions, she recalls that her ...
The House of Mirth 1131 deeper individuality is often at odds with societal constraints. Her status as an unwed young woman with ...
1132 Wharton, Edith whose individuality is so defined by her society that she cannot find her way out of it. The novel is an ins ...
Leaves of Grass 1133 her to vigilance, whispering the terrified warning that every word and gesture must be measured.” This desc ...
1134 Whitman, Walt the poems written in the wake of the mass deaths of the Civil War (1861–65) and the assassination of Presiden ...
Leaves of Grass 1135 and innovations are singled out for praise, includ- ing “the many-cylinder’d steam printing-press,” the tel ...
1136 Wiesel, Elie Broad-Axe,” “Song of the Exposition,” and “A Song for Occupations.” Whitman’s catalogues of workers and work a ...
Night 1137 following being expelled from it (along with the village’s other foreign Jews), crammed into a cattle car, and almost ...
1138 Wiesel, Elie himself in the mirror, he sees a corpse staring back. As a result, he, like Moshe, questions both the rea- son ...
Night 1139 his inadequacy, and eventually exterminated. Before his father’s murder, at times, Wiesel feels the man is a threat t ...
1140 Wilde, Oscar recognizes “it was as though Juliek’s soul were the bow. He was playing his life.” While the Nazis are able to ...
The Importance of Being Earnest 1141 that he had a friend called Ernest,” she concludes, “I knew I was destined to love you.” Pe ...
1142 Wilde, Oscar clearly the huckster. Jack, whose uprightness would stiffen a board, is contrasted with the contradic- tory an ...
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