Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature

394 Emerson, Ralph Waldo of reason. The address lays out a path of American thought that he sees as emancipation from old ideas ...

points the way to a new horizon for the United States, where the prototype American scholar must stake out an education from all ...

396 Emerson, Ralph Waldo become incorporated into the mix, thus continuing to provide a wellspring of eternal truths to those fo ...

“The Divinity School Address” 397 source—the American scholar must lead the way. The American scholar, in this sense, needs firs ...

398 Emerson, Ralph Waldo that appeared on earth in human form for a while Others, including Emerson, saw Jesus as having been a ...

this same spirit, which is differently named love, justice, temperance, in its different applications, just as the ocean receive ...

400 Emerson, Ralph Waldo in being “an inlet into the deeps of Reason.” This is so significant that he compares the unquestioning ...

“Self-Reliance” 401 individual and sOciety in “Self-Reliance” Ralph Waldo Emerson begins his essay “Self- Reliance” with the Lat ...

402 Emerson, Ralph Waldo truth and honesty can ordinary thoughts become the ideals of society. Later in the essay, Emerson creat ...

world, Emerson sets up a correlation that elevates the importance of the mysteries of nature that refers back to the earlier quo ...

404 Equiano, Olaudah at work, the collective mind of society grows to an understanding that helps us all. Nowhere in “Self-Relia ...

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African... 405 into the horrifying system of We ...

406 Equiano, Olaudah Equiano includes an elegant frontispiece of himself as a preface to his Interesting Narrative. Though the p ...

cess of his autobiography. He portrayed himself in a favorable light for the reading public and influenced that audience to deno ...

408 Erdrich, Louise ERDRICH, LOUISE The Bingo Palace (1994) Published in 1994, The Bingo Palace was Louise Erdrich’s fourth nove ...

The Bingo Palace 409 of commercialism are emphasized. Money turns them against tradition and family, greed leaves them powerless ...

410 Erdrich, Louise Indian” to ever lock these pieces in place, the agent turns Lipsha’s luck to bad. Henceforth in the novel, a ...

Love Medicine 411 a vision quest that returns him to that experience of pain. Unbeknownst to him, Lipsha carried this pain insid ...

412 Louise Erdrich Lucille’s sister Marie, who takes her in and cares for her as if she were her own child; indeed, June becomes ...

Love Medicine 413 reservation, specifically hopelessness and the feeling of worthlessness. In the first chapter of the text, “Th ...