Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
1134 Whitman, Walt the poems written in the wake of the mass deaths of the Civil War (1861–65) and the assassination of Presiden ...
Leaves of Grass 1135 and innovations are singled out for praise, includ- ing “the many-cylinder’d steam printing-press,” the tel ...
1136 Wiesel, Elie Broad-Axe,” “Song of the Exposition,” and “A Song for Occupations.” Whitman’s catalogues of workers and work a ...
Night 1137 following being expelled from it (along with the village’s other foreign Jews), crammed into a cattle car, and almost ...
1138 Wiesel, Elie himself in the mirror, he sees a corpse staring back. As a result, he, like Moshe, questions both the rea- son ...
Night 1139 his inadequacy, and eventually exterminated. Before his father’s murder, at times, Wiesel feels the man is a threat t ...
1140 Wilde, Oscar recognizes “it was as though Juliek’s soul were the bow. He was playing his life.” While the Nazis are able to ...
The Importance of Being Earnest 1141 that he had a friend called Ernest,” she concludes, “I knew I was destined to love you.” Pe ...
1142 Wilde, Oscar clearly the huckster. Jack, whose uprightness would stiffen a board, is contrasted with the contradic- tory an ...
The Importance of Being Earnest 1143 definition seems to twist and turn, often proffering opposite solutions to the same problem ...
1144 Wilde, Oscar play, though they will surely try. Gwendolen eventu- ally will find that reality must circumscribe her fan- ci ...
The Picture of Dorian Gray 1145 about his fiancée’s never actually being Sibyl Vane, the latter replies that “[s]he is all the g ...
1146 Wilde, Oscar it was to know nothing.” Wilde writes that Dorian “would often adopt certain modes of thought that he knew to ...
Our Town 1147 an artful performance, Sybil descends into staged artificiality, and as a consequence, Dorian despises her. The na ...
1148 Wilder, Thornton the following flashback scene, George and Emily depict how they realized their true feelings for one anoth ...
Our Town 1149 munity emphasize the value of responsibility in early 20th-century America. In Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, at ...
1150 Wilder, Thornton StaGeS oF LIFe in Our Town In his 1938 Pulitzer Prize–winning play Our Town, Thornton Wilder illustrates t ...
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1151 by a shelter of black umbrellas. This dark image and the approaching darkness of nightfall symbolizes ...
1152 Williams, Tennessee Little of this affects Brick, who continues to drink throughout the play, mired in his inability to acc ...
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1153 arrested development. Brick is in a “state of spiritual disrepair” rooted in his inability to accept ...
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