Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
subjects into objects, and this transformation is the reason why the victims of cruelty experience such a disruption of their wo ...
which includes patricide, suicide, and fratricide. In Poetics, Aristotle highlights the value of tragedy, which compels an audie ...
while winter represents death with the lines “That time of year thou mayst in me behold, / When yellow leaves, or none, or few d ...
always a positive force. However, its ability to shape society is undeniable. Plato’s The Republic offers two models of educa- t ...
life as he apprentices himself to the mysterious Tower Society comprising enlightened aristocrats who will guide him towards his ...
and Malcolm X: autobioGraphy oF MaLcoLM x, the; Huxley, Aldous: brave new worLd; Law- rence, D. H.: rainbow, the; Plath, Sylvia: ...
that it is meant to achieve. For humans, this state is happiness and it is reached through the cultiva- tion of virtues. In orde ...
tion of her day is a small party she is giving (rather than, say, an epic battle or journey). By conveying her thinking directly ...
as coherent units, united in solidarity against the outside world. These family ties can be a soothing, strengthening force, hel ...
persisted well into the 20th century. In Barbara Kingsolver’s The poisonwood bibLe, Nathan Price drags his wife and four daughte ...
fate Fate, according to modern usage, is an agency or power that orders and predetermines a future course of events. In the anci ...
Virgil wrote his epic during a period of civil war and political and moral chaos in Rome after the fall of the Republic. Accordi ...
deaths of the two lovers apparently induced. Despite the role of fortuity in the tragic outcome, the more defining accountabilit ...
which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and i ...
ick Douglass’s personal freedom and, second, a restriction on the positive freedom for education. Since freedom must correspond ...
road; London, Jack: caLL oF the wiLd, the; Morrison, Toni: beLoved; Mukherjee, Bharati: MiddLeMan and other stories, the; Paine, ...
beth (1603) and Carson McCullers’s The heart is a LoneLy hunter (1940). Tragedy, according to Aristotle, is a journey by the aud ...
in Sanskrit, Pali, and Prakrit. As a result, noth- ing is seen as futile in the end; there are salvation and hope that every sin ...
authority figures, is an act of choosing to perform a gender. One of her most controversial theories is that individuals only pe ...
control of women’s sexuality. For example, Othello believes Iago’s lies about his wife Desdemona’s chas- tity because Othello is ...
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