Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
614 James, Henry back home in New York, but she discovers that her understanding of appropriate social behavior clashes with the ...
The Portrait of a Lady 615 jamES, HEnry The Portrait of a Lady (1882) The Portrait of a Lady is the story of Isabel Archer, a gi ...
616 James, Henry If Goodwood was less focused on his business, for instance, he might have a better chance of winning Isabel’s h ...
The Portrait of a Lady 617 social ties and unspoken expectations for anyone to enjoy complete freedom. However, James is no blea ...
618 James, Henry picture of Americans and Europeans, James shows that there are different ways of dealing with inno- cence and e ...
The Turn of the Screw 619 from a plainer background, but she is the salt of the earth and knows her place in society. She also p ...
620 James, Henry The characters, too, are marked by varying degrees of isolation. The governess comes into a position of authori ...
The Turn of the Screw 621 while Victoria was queen of England (1837–1901). The Victorians insisted upon public morality, modest ...
622 Jefferson, Thomas Close examination of the language shows that none of the governess’s suppositions about what is happening ...
Notes on the State of Virginia 623 example, can be explained by his careful scientific explanations, his “experiences,” so to sp ...
624 Jefferson, Thomas as the disparity in physical beauty between the two races. Unlike his treatment of Native Americans, he no ...
Dutchman 625 come together. Just like the natural world where things like the four seasons and day and night often remind us how ...
626 Jones, Leroi American (and African) folklore. She transforms herself over the course of the play, covering up and revealing ...
Dutchman 627 by Lula—she was determining what Clay said and when he said it. Clay, as a young African-American man, doesn’t have ...
628 Joyce, James spewing invectives against Lula’s (white) ignorance. It is at this juncture in the play that the worst racial e ...
Dubliners 629 individual hopes and dreams are unfulfilled due to the pressures of marriage and family. As a result of the tensio ...
630 Joyce, James been a lucrative literary career. This is symbolized by the “books of poetry upon his shelves” that he had boug ...
Dubliners 631 What an end! The whole narrative of her death revolted him and it revolted him to think that he had ever spoken to ...
632 Joyce, James to putting religion to non-religious, profitable ends. Religion therefore becomes empty of anything meaningful. ...
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 633 the subject indirectly, via his interest in the busi- ness community. This builds up ...
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