Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
874 Poe, Edgar Allan Usher family members are meeting their respective demises. The narrator carefully observes the “vacant eye- ...
“The Fall of the House of Usher” 875 house) and that of Roderick Usher himself. “It was with difficulty that I could bring mysel ...
876 Poe, Edgar Allan disorder. First, Usher’s illness is the reason the nar- rator, who has maintained only a limited friendship ...
“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” 877 In the story, Dupin and the narrator investigate the mysterious double murder of Madame and ...
878 Poe, Edgar Allan and all the individuals it involves; he maintains, in other words, his habitual distance from society. This ...
“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” 879 leads the narrator to conclude that the crimes have been committed by a madman, but then he ...
880 Poe, Edgar Allan of nationalistic thinking when Dupin states: “My ultimate object is only the truth. My immediate purpose is ...
“The Tell-Tale Heart” 881 the protagonist seems to enjoy the malicious mind games that he inflicts upon the old man: “I knew tha ...
882 Poe, Edgar Allan of life with his eyes metaphorically shut and now in old age, as death approaches, cannot even keep them cl ...
The Rape of the Lock 883 split personality disorder: He clearly exhibits a Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde-type persona, with the extremes o ...
884 Pope, Alexander example, Belinda, the poem’s protagonist, dresses herself in a scene likened to Achilles’ putting on of armo ...
The Rape of the Lock 885 world she represents in the violence of early 18th- century mercantilism. It is in this context that we ...
886 Pope, Alexander Spleen, for instance—are also female (if not strictly human). Unlike the female characters in the poem, who ...
The Chosen 887 Likewise, the feverish battle that erupts after (and in spite of ) Clarissa’s sensible speech imploring women to ...
888 Potok, Chaim in strict silence, unless they are studying the Torah, a body of religious teachings. That situation takes a to ...
The Chosen 889 too, could not be more contrary. However, when one considers each father’s devotion to his son, which is immeasur ...
890 Potok, Chaim faith. The profound and meaningful relationships between fathers, sons, and friends is both nourished and chall ...
Remembrance of Things Past 891 ProuST, marCEL Remembrance of Things Past (À la recherche du temps perdu) (1913–1927) Remembrance ...
892 Proust, Marcel and as a result, he cannot appear in high society with Odette, and their “unfortunate marriage” is disapprove ...
Remembrance of Things Past 893 but it also provides the text with its structure: The narrator jumps forward and backward through ...
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