Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
854 Orwell, George HeroISm in Nineteen Eighty-Four Literature abounds with heroic archetypes. There are the mythological heroes ...
Nineteen Eighty-Four 855 Winston breaks and pleads with O’Brien to torture Julia instead of him. Winston’s heroic rebellion may ...
856 Orwell, George the Party will be unwilling to threaten or remove it. The Party permeates all aspects of Oceania society, a s ...
The Age of Reason 857 expunged; however, it is insufficient for him to be converted back for expediency. He must refute his crim ...
858 Paine, Thomas most world religions, deists do not believe that God plays a role in the daily lives of humans; rather, God cr ...
The Age of Reason 859 the mind of God. Science and religion do not fight against each another in this scenario but, instead, com ...
860 Paine, Thomas should utilize their individual abilities for reason in order to understand and contend with the accepted expe ...
Common Sense 861 PaiNE, THomaS Common Sense (1776) Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine during the American Revolu ...
862 Paine, Thomas As a result, Paine’s sense of community operates on another level; that is, his pleas of “common sense” have t ...
Common Sense 863 ing of ourselves, so the second, claimed as a matter of right, is an insult and imposition on posterity.” His a ...
864 Paton, Alan PaToN, aLaN Cry, the Beloved Country (1948) Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country is a tale set in pre-apartheid ...
Cry, the Beloved Country 865 has spent time in a reform school and has recently disappeared. During his disappearance, it is rev ...
866 Paton, Alan crime. He writes, “The old tribal system was, for all its violence and savagery, for all its superstition and wi ...
Six Characters in Search of an Author 867 and tend to his sibling. Kumalo’s arrival at Johannes- burg reveals a city that suffer ...
868 Pirandello, Luigi color, than the “real” actors. The lighting of the six characters is also different, and their expressions ...
The Bell Jar 869 prostitution. One of the men who tried to buy her services turned out to be her mother’s first husband, the gir ...
870 Plath, sylvia begin to fall apart, however, her sense of identity also fractures, and she begins to sink into depres- sion a ...
The Bell Jar 871 mind, they are self-exclusive, forcing her to choose only one. In her indecision, each opportunity shriv- els u ...
872 Plath, sylvia self-exclusionary and she is forced to choose. What finally sparks her depression and suicide attempt is her f ...
“The Fall of the House of Usher” 873 absolves Buddy of responsibility (for her breakdown and Joan’s suicide) near the end, the a ...
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