Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
534 Hawthorne, Nathaniel out of my own hands, as I may say, and make use of him for his infernal experiments” (988). The consequ ...
The Scarlet Letter 535 est practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil . . . as the site of a prison.” Once Hest ...
536 Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hester and Dimmesdale must grapple with their sin, Pearl reminds readers that both Hester and Dimmesdal ...
The Scarlet Letter 537 this examination with the novel’s first chapter, “The Prison Door,” which opens with a “throng of bearded ...
538 Hawthorne, Nathaniel in Puritan attitudes and beliefs, for the townspeople, and even the magistrates themselves read the “A” ...
“Young Goodman Brown” 539 Calvinist conviction of the total depravity of human- kind, so Brown, after witnessing the secret evil ...
540 Hawthorne, Nathaniel Brown loses the innocence of his youthful con- victions at this altar. Later, after he returns to the v ...
Catch-22 541 altar, a parody of a church gathering. For Brown the experience in the woods has a pernicious influence on his own ...
542 Heller, Joseph one’s own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr ...
Catch-22 543 this source of solace and also explores its limits. Not only do combat soldiers question their own faith, but they ...
544 Heller, Joseph break many psychologically. It is common to all the- aters of war in all times, from the jungles of Vietnam, ...
A Farewell to Arms 545 stomach, and bits of the stewed tomatoes Snowden had eaten that day for lunch. Snowden dies in Yossarian’ ...
546 Hemingway, Ernest sure, he chose the side that opposed military expan- sion, but it all seems a grand adventure. Catherine B ...
A Farewell to Arms 547 of the novel, however, there is an insistent insecurity about the promise of new life. Once labor begins, ...
548 Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway casts survival in two basic frames: “life and death” and “day-to-day.” The story begins in a rel ...
The Old Man and the Sea 549 that seems to keep Santiago alive throughout the novel, even when he is alone in his skiff. The old ...
550 Hemingway, Ernest lagers do worry about the old man. They sent the coast guard to search for him, and Manolin must tell the ...
The Old Man and the Sea 551 and mutilation. As the townspeople examine and measure the fish’s skeleton on the beach, they are al ...
552 Hemingway, Ernest HEmingWay, ErnEST The Sun Also Rises (1926) Ernest Hemingway’s first great novel, The Sun Also Rises, was ...
The Sun Also Rises 553 that he is “pretty religious,” but that hardly seems sincere given his own difficulties with church and p ...
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