Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
1034 stoker, Bram sexual transgression is associated with a specific geographical area, the East. Consequently, Harker thinks th ...
Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1035 of Medusa’s snakes.” The phallic snakes suggest a monstrous masculine femininity, a woman who has usurped ...
1036 stowe, Harriet Beecher FamILy in Uncle Tom’s Cabin Uncle Tom’s Cabin demonstrates the evils of slavery, in part, by illustr ...
Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1037 race in Uncle Tom’s Cabin It is understandable that readers of Uncle Tom’s Cabin might find the depiction ...
1038 stowe, Harriet Beecher head, it wouldn’t do no good neither,—I’s nothin’ but a nigger, no ways!” Pressed by Eva as to wheth ...
Gulliver’s Travels 1039 to be as I say!” While Tom is a dutiful laborer on Legree’s miserable plantation, he does not submit his ...
1040 swift, Jonathan employment and high favour at court.” Whenever a government vacancy occurs, interested individuals ask to e ...
Gulliver’s Travels 1041 including the estimate that “eleven thousand per- sons have . . . suffered death rather than submit to ...
1042 swift, Jonathan bladders contained “a small quantity of dried Pease, or little Pebbles” and that the servants frequently “f ...
A Modest Proposal 1043 the wealthy for food. The essay uses unsentimental agricultural and economic language to emphasize the be ...
1044 swift, Jonathan near the end of the essay. In A Modest Proposal, this includes a long litany of “other expedients” in favor ...
A Modest Proposal 1045 is, therefore, not the poor Swift means to criticize and chastise but the rich, particularly those who ad ...
1046 synge, John Millington After reading A Modest Proposal, the reader understands the suffering of the Irish and the indiffere ...
The Playboy of the Western World 1047 match for the women. The aura of excitement that surrounds his act gives him entrance into ...
1048 synge, John Millington The crime of murder gilds Christy with a romantic aura and fascinates Pegeen and the oth- ers. Pegee ...
The Joy Luck Club 1049 run throughout any family must seem clear to the small group, and the reaction to the murder makes it cle ...
1050 Tan, Amy they reveal that one thing all of the women have in common is how constrained they feel their lives have been beca ...
The Joy Luck Club 1051 the first time in China that Jing-mei finally accepts that her Chinese self is more than genetics, it is ...
1052 Tennyson, Lord Alfred reGret in The Joy Luck Club The Joy Luck Club is a novel filled with regrets. Each character suffers ...
In Memoriam A. H. H 1053 lam, Tennyson’s closest friend, in 1833. Hallam was traveling in Vienna at the time, and Tennyson com- ...
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