Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature

354 Dos Passos, John Kikuyu, who live on the coffee farm, work as pay- ment for their use of the unwanted land. Dinesen refers t ...

U.S.A. trilogy 355 fiction, the trilogy was a significant contribution to American literature. Unlike Ernest Hemingway and F. Sc ...

356 Dos Passos, John the truly tragic effect of capitalism on society. Only within such an inherently alienating context can Jan ...

own cinematic destiny; and Mary French, arguably the heroine of the trilogy, is the only one of the main characters that Dos Pas ...

358 Dostoyevsky, Fyodor can be gained by a true humanitarian enterprise. A political activist, Mary explains late in The Big Mon ...

Crime and Punishment 359 understanding of society is sobornost. Because every- one is related, a crime against one person is a c ...

360 Dostoyevsky, Fyodor all, but the redemptive suffering of one person is the redemptive suffering of all. This concept, com- b ...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself 361 the soul. For example, Marmeladov’s heavy ...

362 Douglass, Frederick remains so today. The work includes such themes as freedom, identity, race, and gender. Patrice Natalie ...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself 363 him for the next six months. Douglass sta ...

364 Douglass, Frederick into question as a result of this incident as well, for Douglass does not comment on Mr. Giles Hicks’s r ...

The Hound of the Baskervilles 365 Such activities, it is thought, affirm their inferiority and powerlessness. Racial codes impos ...

366 Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan by Hugo Baskerville continues to affect the lives of the current generations, reaching far beyond it ...

The Hound of the Baskervilles 367 lock Holmes, uses reason and deduction to demon- strate that what appears to be fate, to be de ...

368 Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan of rational deduction and strict adherence to class standards, remains an ideal Victorian hero. How- ...

An American Tragedy 369 against his evil plan is engendered not by a sense of justice but by fury at her husband’s infidelity. B ...

370 Dreiser, Theodore commodities, which were becoming more and more available for those with the means to afford them in postbe ...

An American Tragedy 371 labor, Dreiser opines, they are consigned to aspire but never achieve and to live bleak lives of quiet d ...

372 Dreiser, Theodore dreams and hopes. More so than Hardy, though, Dreiser, taking his cues from the philosopher Her- bert Spen ...

Sister Carrie 373 ment, much like a conundrum. Whatever alternative they choose will bring horrific consequences in its wake. Ho ...