Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature

234 Brontë, Emily characters in their circle. Brontë uses the novel’s isolated setting to symbolically highlight the fact that m ...

“My Last Duchess” 235 Early on in the novel, we learn that even as a child, “[Catherine] was much too fond of Heathcliff. The gr ...

236 Browning, Robert when it was reprinted in Dramatic Romances and Lyrics. Among his best-loved and most widely anthologized wo ...

to control both. At the same time, it defies both death and the duke’s power. In jealously reserv- ing the right to alternately ...

238 Browning, Robert nonchalance. He must assert his prerogatives, but he must do so discreetly, indirectly, and above all grace ...

The Pilgrim’s Progress 239 of orders. Not only has he felt himself barred from directly intervening in his wife’s conduct, but n ...

240 Bunyan, John Guilt in The Pilgrim’s Progress One of the most commanding images of the open- ing pages of John Bunyan’s The P ...

The Pilgrim’s Progress 241 To the very end, it is Christian’s belief in God’s promises that enables him to finally turn his own ...

242 Bunyan, John Faithful’s place, does keep company with Christian till the end. Faithful is killed by the residents of Vanity ...

Don Juan 243 counsel. His true companions are few but loyal. These are Faithful and Hopeful, the two virtues a pilgrim must have ...

244 Byron, George Gordon Byron, Lord Or Coelebs’ Wife set out in quest of lovers (1.16.1–4) The speaker characterizes Juan’s mot ...

Don Juan 245 humor gradually took over the tenor of his life, and his youthful indiscretions led to outrage and disgrace. As an ...

246 Camus, Albert wealth, power, war, religion, injustices heaped upon weaker members of the society, restraints on personal lib ...

The Stranger 247 Existentialism is often seen as going together with absurdism, but Camus held that The Stranger was not an exis ...

248 Camus, Albert wanting another chance at life. He reveals that “for the first time... I opened myself to the gentle indif- fe ...

The Stranger 249 you can get people to take in you doesn’t last very long.” Once more, he falls back on the uselessness and poin ...

250 Cao Xueqin is in those sad statements that the reader fully comes to understand how he is different. Immediately after that, ...

Dream of the Red Chamber 251 Bao-yu’s paternal grandfather, is the matriarch of Rong-guo mansion. She commands major domestic de ...

252 Cao Xueqin from their studies, poetry composed by the girls in Prospect Garden during the imperial concubine’s visit epitomi ...

Dream of the Red Chamber 253 better to conclude that forms of suffering in the novel are, to a large extent, gender-linked. Gend ...