Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
574 Homer of heroism while still displaying the glory of those who embrace it. The Odyssey proves that heroism is not only a mat ...
Farewell to Manzanar 575 other, particularly the secret of their marital bed (459). His knowledge of it proves his true identity ...
576 Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki of all their possessions and the stress of internment lead to the further deterioration of the fam ...
Farewell to Manzanar 577 Clearance, which contains two questions that are meant to determine the internee’s national loyalty. Qu ...
578 Hughes, Langston she experiences her most profound moment of independence when she witnesses her parents grow closer after t ...
poems 579 Arguably, Hughes’s most biting criticism of the limitations of the American dream is conveyed through “Let America Be ...
580 Hughes, Langston racial prejudice and their systematic exclusion from the American dream. In “Negro Speaks of Rivers” (1920) ...
poems 581 to their affluent neighborhoods, “solutions to the problem, of course, [have to] wait” (22–23). To those who are alrea ...
582 Hurston, Zora Neale Hughes succeeds in redeeming African Americans as heroes who, even in the face of death, refuse to subor ...
Their Eyes Were Watching God 583 because “This freedom feeling was fine. These men didn’t represent a thing she wanted to know a ...
584 Huxley, Aldous This kiss is the culmination of Janie’s discovery of her sexuality, symbolized by the pear tree in which she ...
Brave New World 585 ensures everybody’s happiness. The idea of “fami- lies” has been abandoned; instead, human beings are produc ...
586 Huxley, Aldous that way goes against her conditioning and is, thus, impossible for her. On their second date, Marx takes Len ...
Brave New World 587 way of indoctrinating people in their sleep. Having recognized that this method works most efficiently when ...
588 Ibsen, Henrik in their eventual removal from the World State by Mustafa Mond. Mond is the only character in the novel who no ...
A Doll ’s House 589 confess openly to his crime and take his punish- ment, a more morally defensible act than that of perpetuati ...
590 Ibsen, Henrik concerned with his own well-being. He too forged a document in his past, causing him to lose not only his job ...
Hedda Gabler 591 money, rather than love, and this decision proves a bad one when she discovers her new husband’s busi- ness ven ...
592 Ibsen, Henrik manuscript and encourages a frantic Løvborg to commit suicide. Her husband and Mrs. Elvstd dedi- cate themselv ...
Hedda Gabler 593 ceptive remark in a letter to George Brandes, Ibsen’s lifelong friend and an academic: Greater things than [sta ...
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