Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
734 Marlowe, Christopher To put it simply, because of his pride, Faustus seeks only a profession that will make him “a mighty go ...
Brown Girl, Brownstones 735 against false doctrines and independent thought. In the opening scene, when Faustus ponders his choi ...
736 Marshall, Paule to thrive in Brooklyn, the father lost in a dream of Caribbean grandeur. The mother triumphs, but only at th ...
Brown Girl, Brownstones 737 than bifurcate, the ways of “the mother” and the father. Although she will not choose the path of he ...
738 Marshall, Paule a nigger after all,” does Selina realize her oneness with Miss Thompson, with “the whores” and the “flashy m ...
All the Pretty Horses 739 poor immigrants in a hostile white world. Suggie’s passion-filled Saturday nights “nullify” her week o ...
740 McCarthy, Cormac view of love is challenged, Blevins’s execution alters his conception of human morality. When Blevins is un ...
All the Pretty Horses 741 Blevins’s prophecy that he would be struck “sure as the world” is fulfilled in the novel in the sense ...
742 McCullers, Carson taking command of that wild spirit. Another way this ardent lifestyle is challenged in the text is when an ...
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter 743 displays itself as the paradox of physical closeness but emotional distance. The repeated juxta ...
744 McCullers, Carson fer unrequited love for others who do not love them in return, incomprehensible love whose reasons cannot ...
The Member of the Wedding 745 The regularity of work shapes several characters’ lives for good and ill. Perhaps the most obvious ...
746 McCullers, Carson Frances Addams, a gangly, androgynous, and moth- erless 12-year-old tomboy; her bespectacled and ethereal ...
The Member of the Wedding 747 emotionally left his only daughter. Similarly, the summer has intensified a sense of isolation and ...
748 McCullers, Carson will carry them to their honeymoon, and away from her forever, the child Frankie throws herself to the dus ...
Lonesome Dove 749 her an opportunity to reminisce about how the “old Frankie” interacted with them; still the members of the com ...
750 McMurtry, Larry a herd of cattle and driving it up to new territory in Montana. For two former lawmen attempting to scratch ...
Lonesome Dove 751 read lines with. His women actually seem to talk and act and react like real women would, a great accom- plish ...
752 McMurtry, Larry reading of Lonesome Dove reveals that while the men might have started on a straight path, it was the women ...
“Bartleby, the scrivener: A story of Wall street” 753 breaks his neck in a suicidal leap to cheat the hang- man. Despite already ...
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