Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
The Importance of Being Earnest 1143 definition seems to twist and turn, often proffering opposite solutions to the same problem ...
1144 Wilde, Oscar play, though they will surely try. Gwendolen eventu- ally will find that reality must circumscribe her fan- ci ...
The Picture of Dorian Gray 1145 about his fiancée’s never actually being Sibyl Vane, the latter replies that “[s]he is all the g ...
1146 Wilde, Oscar it was to know nothing.” Wilde writes that Dorian “would often adopt certain modes of thought that he knew to ...
Our Town 1147 an artful performance, Sybil descends into staged artificiality, and as a consequence, Dorian despises her. The na ...
1148 Wilder, Thornton the following flashback scene, George and Emily depict how they realized their true feelings for one anoth ...
Our Town 1149 munity emphasize the value of responsibility in early 20th-century America. In Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, at ...
1150 Wilder, Thornton StaGeS oF LIFe in Our Town In his 1938 Pulitzer Prize–winning play Our Town, Thornton Wilder illustrates t ...
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1151 by a shelter of black umbrellas. This dark image and the approaching darkness of nightfall symbolizes ...
1152 Williams, Tennessee Little of this affects Brick, who continues to drink throughout the play, mired in his inability to acc ...
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1153 arrested development. Brick is in a “state of spiritual disrepair” rooted in his inability to accept ...
1154 Williams, Tennessee the play begins, of the affair Maggie had with Skip- per, which she claims was committed in a desperate ...
The Glass Menagerie 1155 FamILy in The Glass Menagerie With The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams lays the foundation for a st ...
1156 Williams, Tennessee theater of realistic conventions” and revitalize the American stage. The critical aspect of expressioni ...
A Streetcar Named Desire 1157 strongest relationships are with the innumerable glass figurines she collects. Laura, in her mothe ...
1158 Williams, Tennessee crueLty in A Streetcar Named Desire Cruelty abounds in Tennessee Williams’s master- piece A Streetcar N ...
A Streetcar Named Desire 1159 The play is set in New Orleans, Louisiana, just after World War II, and Williams’s depiction of th ...
1160 Wilson, August we soon learn are more theoretical than practiced. Living in close proximity to jazz joints, bars, and the c ...
Fences 1161 which he takes for granted despite Bono’s loyalty to him. Troy also feels let down by Lyons, his son from a previous ...
1162 Wilson, August hubs, African Americans were “offered no such wel- come.” He says, “The city rejected them, and they fled an ...
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