Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature

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Moll Flanders Defoe, Daniel Mrs Dalloway Woolf, Virginia Much Ado about Nothing Shakespeare, William Mumbo Jumbo Reed, Ishmael “ ...

poems Hughes, Langston poems Keats, John poems Shelley, Percy Bysshe poems Yeats, William Butler Poisonwood Bible, The Kingsolve ...

Surfacing Atwood, Margaret Tale of Two Cities, A Dickens, Charles Taming of the Shrew, The Shakespeare, William Tar Baby Morriso ...

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` xxv Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature is unique among literature references in that it is general and specific. It offers b ...

examination of the theme in the work but, rather, enough information and context to encourage the reader’s own thoughts on the s ...

1 ` abandonment The origins of the word abandon, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, demonstrate that it has not always ...

2 gates of the royal family of a distant city, Corinth. As a young man, however, Oedipus hears the prophecy as well, thinks that ...

3 emote or to feel. He leaves his loved ones lonely and alone in search of individual, intellectual glory. In turn, he abandons ...

4 alone but is clearly disconnected from his compan- ion—that creates the feeling of alienation. Near the end of the poem, the s ...

ation as the state that exists when things that should naturally go together are kept apart. Modern work, Marx argued, does this ...

Similarly, in Greek mythology we see the con- sequences of foolishly following ambition. In his Metamorphoses, Ovid tells the st ...

presents his struggle best when, pondering her hus- band’s character, she states: It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness T ...

gate scandal, or the stock market crashes of 1987 and 2008. Ambition itself is not a “good thing” or a “bad thing,” but it is a ...

ally possessing it. These materialistic values, which he and the other characters in the novel uphold, serve to produce a genera ...

cans experience the idea of the American dream in a unique way. Unlike other minority groups, Native Americans are left out of t ...

ment. Thus, the child has been either the subject or the object of a plethora of writings since the 18th century. These writings ...

were specifically produced for an audience of children and even their cover art was conceived in such a way as to please childre ...

copperF ieLd (1849–50) and Great expectations (1860–61); Horatio Alger, Jr.’s Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the ...