Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
1054 Tennyson, Lord Alfred injury that Hallam’s death wrought within him. The end result is that the poet’s grief helps him to b ...
In Memoriam A. H. H 1055 ever, memories of Hallam and the times they shared motivate the poet’s spiritual growth toward hope and ...
1056 Tennyson, Lord Alfred survives and is a part of his life, albeit in a new and different form. The loss of his young friend ...
“Civil Disobedience” 1057 THorEau, HENry DaviD “Civil Disobedience” (“resistance to Civil Government”) (1849) Henry David Thorea ...
1058 Thoreau, Henry David stake, fear change and may actually benefit from the status quo. In such a situation, Thoreau conclude ...
“Civil Disobedience” 1059 “the true place for a just man is also a prison.” His Concord neighbors now seemed to him to be people ...
1060 Thoreau, Henry David Masking a radical argument in a conservative- looking cloak, the early paragraphs of the essay can mis ...
Walden 1061 IndIvIduaL and SocIety in Walden As well as being a long essay on the wonders of the natural world, Walden is a work ...
1062 Thoreau, Henry David it as an artistic model, as a source of sustenance, as a moral teacher, and as a manifestation of divi ...
The Hobbit 1063 Thoreau’s doctrine of self-reliance. In his opinion, work should be seen not as an unavoidable burden but as a m ...
1064 Tolkien, J. R. R. their quest to regain gold stolen from them long ago by the dragon Smaug. Though a hobbit would seem an u ...
The Hobbit 1065 ship position earlier taken by Gandalf, and he has now matured sufficiently to assume the surrogate father role. ...
1066 Tolkien, J. R. R. Bard and the other humans opposing the dwarves in order to claim a share of the treasure. Bard and the el ...
The Lord of the Rings 1067 betraying them by turning over what he has stolen to the forces besieging the dwarves. While such act ...
1068 Tolkien, J. R. R. event that occurs in the novel is as attributable to choices and actions freely selected as it is to fate ...
The Lord of the Rings 1069 tagonist of the novel. Central to the novel’s premise is that heroism as conventionally understood is ...
1070 Tolstoy, Leo without it” (The Fellowship of the Ring)—another phrase that recurs throughout the novel. Sam, one of the wise ...
War and Peace 1071 of Tolstoy’s characters, ranging from romantic to familial to spiritual love. All of these types of love are ...
1072 Tolstoy, Leo Leo Tolstoy’s day, it probably triggered very dif- ferent emotions—emotions indicative of a vulner- ability th ...
War and Peace 1073 Andrey Bolkonsky voices his feelings of regret to Pierre: “Never, never marry, my dear fellow; that’s my advi ...
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