Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
others toward extraordinary creativity and innova- tion as a result of having been forced to rely solely on their own minds as a ...
ing her from her beloved sister, Nettie. After Celie goes to live at Mister’s house, he in turn isolates her, keeping her like a ...
justice The desire to be treated fairly, and to see others treated fairly, is a fundamental human impulse. We seek justice in ou ...
“equals should be treated equally and unequals unequally—but in proportion to their relevant simi- larities and differences” (Bu ...
tartuFFe; Paine, Thomas: aGe oF reason, the; Pirandello, Luigi: six characters in search oF an author; Shakespeare, William: haM ...
the nonhuman, whether animals, things, or ideas. Pastoral works of poetry and fiction, for instance, celebrate the relationships ...
See also Augustine, Saint: conFessions oF st. auGustine, the; Bambara, Toni Cade: saLt eat- ers, the; Bradbury, Ray: Martian chr ...
Scripture or other foundational texts of each point or idea presented within a text, probably did more than any other group to c ...
Vienna, the pageantry of Shakespeare’s Cleopatra on the barge, the splendor of Elizabeth I’s reign, the glory of King Arthur’s l ...
many different forms, with the central factor upon which a movement is based being, for instance, religious, political, ethnic, ...
all but is explored literally, in largely unambiguous language. In poems such as “Easter 1916,” “To Ire- land in the Coming Time ...
Homer in The iLiad and The odyssey, Virgil in The aeneid, and the early English poet Caedmon explain how a people came to inhabi ...
The sketchbook oF GeoFFrey crayon, depicted the ever-evolving Dutch settlements of New York. James Fenimore Cooper’s five-volume ...
tain, it seems quite clear that as global warming, overpopulation, and general environmental degrada- tion continue, themes of n ...
Walker’s The coLor purpLe and Zora Neale Hurston’s their eyes were watchinG God, where the oppressed black men further subjugate ...
to postcolonial critics, who examine the works pro- duced in or written about countries that have been subject to European colon ...
bilities and financial and affective obligations such as the education and instruction of one’s children. The notion of “parenth ...
Edgeworth (Parent’s Assistant, 1796, and Practical Education, 1798), and many minor authors of the late 1780s and the 1790s. An ...
In an attempt to expiate the sin of abandonment, the main character becomes mayor. The impulse to compensate for his wrongdoing ...
bounds downward would be to become a beast. In this ethical scheme, pride, understood negatively as an overly high opinion of on ...
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