Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature

294 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor described as “grey,” but taken in context, this is only because the prisoner is dirty from making a ...

“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” 295 Coleridge revised the poem numerous times; the version in his 1817 collection Sibylline Le ...

296 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor to tell his story to keep it alive for his listeners, who themselves will reiterate his tale. Jenni ...

nature in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” The “rime” of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner denotes not only the “rhyme” ...

298 Conrad, Joseph CONRAD, JOSEPH Heart of Darkness (1899, 1902) Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness, a seminal work in th ...

Heart of Darkness 299 low labors to bring order into the chaotic operations of the El Dorado Exploring Expedition. Later, uprive ...

300 Conrad, Joseph meaningful contact with native Africans, who are rarely granted human status in his narrative and var- iously ...

Lord Jim 301 tions “weaning those ignorant millions from their horrid ways,” he suggests that “the Company was run for profit.” ...

302 Conrad, Joseph tains some of Conrad’s best writing, opinions have been divided on the novel’s second part. Some see it as a ...

Lord Jim 303 past) would be yet another act of cowardice and self-delusion. And yet, letting Brown go is, of course, ironically ...

304 Crane, Stephen Justice in Lord Jim The notion of “justice” implies a sense of balance in relation to which a perceived “diso ...

“The Open Boat” 305 Crane found himself in a small dinghy with three other men; they were adrift for 30 hours. Crane wrote a new ...

306 Crane, Stephen The sense of community continues the next day when the captain realizes that they are not likely to be rescue ...

Although the oiler, who seems the most physically fit of the crew, is unfortunately drowned, the other three men reach shore, wi ...

308 Crane, Stephen the overturned dinghy as a float, but the boat, caught by a strong wave, soon batters the correspondent. Desp ...

The Red Badge of Courage 309 The two youths then face two responses to their actions in this battle, the first negative and the ...

310 Crane, Stephen and joins another stream of fleeing men, he is hit on the head by a fellow soldier’s rifle. He stumbles on, s ...

The Divine Comedy 311 and, more important, has abandoned the “tattered man,” whom he should have helped. Although other images r ...

312 Dante Alighieri saint. Her beauty and devotion to God brought Dante to religion and developed in him an almost unshakable fa ...

The Divine Comedy 313 love are inseparable, and every human action can be categorized as performed either out of love or out of ...