Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
994 smith, Betty strong. He gets a job immediately, sweeping cattle guts into a floor trap for 17.5 cents per hour. Jurgis wonde ...
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 995 educatIon in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Education is at the center of A Tree Grows in Brook- lyn. On ...
996 smith, Betty condemned, and its perversion into a mechanism of abuse and control shown to have devastating effects. Francie, ...
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 997 escape on a typical summer Saturday afternoon, looking for a word to describe Brooklyn, New York. C ...
998 solzhenitsyn, Alexsandr SoLzHENiTSyN, aLExSaNDr One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) In One Day in the Life of Ivan ...
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 999 repetitive actions. Since the prisoners have almost no personal freedom, their indivi ...
1000 solzhenitsyn, Alexsandr admitted to this crime he did not commit because “if he didn’t . . . he’d be shot. If he signed [th ...
Antigone 1001 ments for the bricklaying and the group’s gathering of materials. Although these scenes do not liven up the plot, ...
1002 sophocles to one’s death—is almost incomprehensible. Devo- tion to family then, is one of the more confusing themes to be f ...
Antigone 1003 ces and Eteocles, both seek the throne, which results in a war between them. There are different versions of the s ...
1004 sophocles stronger, which, of course, is an injustice in itself, though one to which they and all women of that time were a ...
Oedipus Rex 1005 In the play, Oedipus’s parents, Laius and Jocasta, king and queen of Thebes, have received a prophecy that he w ...
1006 sophocles fortune; he slew the maiden with crooked talons who sang darkly; he arose from our land as a tower against death ...
Oedipus Rex 1007 Oedipus repeatedly proclaims the supremacy of the gods and the importance of pledging them what they are due: “ ...
1008 steinbeck, John of Zeus, seek the help of Oedipus, whom they call “best of mortals,” while the rest of the city seeks the w ...
Cannery Row 1009 longer work; and Henri, a painter who loves boats but fears the sea. Through these tales, Steinbeck comments wr ...
1010 steinbeck, John tion are recast as deviant, while seemingly unorthodox approaches to happiness are celebrated and shown as ...
Cannery Row 1011 Among its many strengths, one of Cannery Row’s most impressive accomplishments is the way it shows the interpen ...
1012 steinbeck, John Thus, while it is not as overtly political as some of Steinbeck’s other novels (especially his famous 1939 ...
The Grapes of Wrath 1013 on farmers who suffer further degradation as the sons of their former neighbors arrive on one of the mo ...
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