Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
3 emote or to feel. He leaves his loved ones lonely and alone in search of individual, intellectual glory. In turn, he abandons ...
4 alone but is clearly disconnected from his compan- ion—that creates the feeling of alienation. Near the end of the poem, the s ...
ation as the state that exists when things that should naturally go together are kept apart. Modern work, Marx argued, does this ...
Similarly, in Greek mythology we see the con- sequences of foolishly following ambition. In his Metamorphoses, Ovid tells the st ...
presents his struggle best when, pondering her hus- band’s character, she states: It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness T ...
gate scandal, or the stock market crashes of 1987 and 2008. Ambition itself is not a “good thing” or a “bad thing,” but it is a ...
ally possessing it. These materialistic values, which he and the other characters in the novel uphold, serve to produce a genera ...
cans experience the idea of the American dream in a unique way. Unlike other minority groups, Native Americans are left out of t ...
ment. Thus, the child has been either the subject or the object of a plethora of writings since the 18th century. These writings ...
were specifically produced for an audience of children and even their cover art was conceived in such a way as to please childre ...
copperF ieLd (1849–50) and Great expectations (1860–61); Horatio Alger, Jr.’s Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the ...
The consequence of his decision marks his transi- tion from childhood to adulthood. Prior to the novel’s climax, Huck has been w ...
revert to a lost childhood or return to a forgotten Eden. This theory, according to Lewis, is at the cen- ter of most American l ...
trade” and “food or raw materials as objects of trade” (Oxford English Dictionary). The act of trading one good for another is a ...
A criticism of such a relationship, however, is that the culture industry does not accurately reflect true human needs; instead, ...
of exchange value. For Tom, women are merely something to be “owned.” In a different yet similar manner, Jay Gatsby also views D ...
Tyson, Louis. Psychological Politics of the American Dream: The Commodif ication of Subjectivity in Twentieth-Century American L ...
of community. The relation between individual and community has to be one that is oriented toward the common good but still give ...
See also Anonymous: beowuLF; Austen, Jane: eMMa; Baldwin, James: Go teLL it on the Mountain; Black Elk: bLack eLk speaks; Brad- ...
cruel. For Michel Montaigne, the French philoso- pher and essayist writing in the 16th century, intent was important, but it was ...
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