Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature

314 Davies, Robertson can advance their connection with God through religious growth. Dante also constantly uses nature in a des ...

Fifth Business 315 even though he was the intended victim, not the one who threw the snowball. Ramsay becomes a schoolteacher an ...

316 Davies, Robertson Dunstan’s natural curiosity about sex, contributed to his guilt. Other issues stem from how the other part ...

Fifth Business 317 reflect rationally on this incident; he cannot dismiss the irrational fears, nor can he know how to cope with ...

318 Davis, Rebecca Harding spiritual gift to him. This dedication to her own path of truth is what inspires Dunstan’s lifelong s ...

Life in the Iron Mills 319 of overcoming his situation. Dr. May tells Hugh, “A man may make himself anything he chooses. God has ...

320 Davis, Rebecca Harding stolen, for him, too, the question of justice—or, as he might phrase it, his right to better himself, ...

Moll Flanders 321 Hugh’s dilemma now is that his newly awakened belief in his own right to happiness conflicts with his sense of ...

322 Defoe, Daniel cOmmOdiFicatiOn/cOmmercializatiOn in Moll Flanders Moll Flanders is so clearly a novel of commerce and commodi ...

Moll Flanders 323 perfectly clear to the reader. During the episode in which Moll marries her fifth husband, whom she calls the ...

324 Defoe, Daniel has in her life are nearly always the result of her lack of experience—in other words, her innocence. The daug ...

Robinson Crusoe 325 Himself. With an account how he was at last as strangely delivered by Pyrates. Written by Himself ) (1719) R ...

326 Defoe, Daniel in the sand and understands that he is not alone at the island, his isolation is extended. Realizing that it i ...

more than those Christians were Murtherers, who often put to Death the Prisoners taken in Battle; or more frequently, upon many ...

328 DeLillo, Don focusing on the options, even if they are limited, makes him appear more of a sovereign of the island than a vi ...

White Noise 329 sense of it at first. This level of subconscious prod- uct placement pervades the novel and the cultural “white ...

discuss at length how they each hope to be the first to die and argue at length about which of them will suffer more as the surv ...

A Christmas Carol 331 it dissolves in a slow and controlled fashion to deliver its chemicals at a precise rate—she calls it “a w ...

332 Dickens, Charles deatH in A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol begins with these simple words: “Marley was ...

A Christmas Carol 333 and charity. The central theme is that money does not make happiness, and that those who have it should gi ...