Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
tion to ponder as one compares Aeschylus’s Pro- metheus Bound with its later variants, Christopher Marlowe’s doctor Faustus and ...
beth’s path to a deep-rooted happiness rather than the mere fairy-tale assurance of “happily ever after.” See also Browning, Rob ...
and the “civilizing” effect it is purported to have on native peoples. In addition to postcolonial politics, race has been a rec ...
servants, Sam and Willie. Sam and Harold have an equal footing—a long relationship that goes back to Harold’s childhood, in whic ...
cognitive. That is, to feel regret requires that we think about what we have done (or failed to do). Regret, by its very nature, ...
Commission, helped to partially heal the country’s deep wounds and allow citizens to move forward together. In Charles Dickens’s ...
distorting their personalities forever. This theme is powerful because of these far-reaching conse- quences. Rejection is a powe ...
them in some form for life. These children, denied the love of one or both parents, carry “feelings of emptiness where that love ...
Leary, Mark, ed. Interpersonal Rejection. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Melancthon, Monica J. Rejected by God: The Hist ...
Europe, it was the monks who preserved some of the most valuable books of ancient Greece and Rome by diligently copying them on ...
book around the world, and he suffered threats to his life. Countries such as Pakistan and India with large Muslim populations b ...
become grossly distorted. First, the ruling powers hold humanity (women in particular) responsible for the decline in fertility ...
and supporting themselves, they grow more and more resentful, with Gregor’s father even resorting to violence. Gregor’s death se ...
society: devious alchemists, armed with a bewilder- ing scientific vocabulary and an arsenal of laboratory technologies, who pro ...
emaciated, sallow, and sickly looking. His work also transforms his daughter, who develops immunity to the poisonous flowers he ...
hyde; Vonnegut, Kurt: cat’s cradLe; Whit- man, Walt: Leaves oF Grass. FURTHER READING Daly, Nicholas. Literature, Technology, an ...
head sees the act of sex as the road to disaster, avoids it whenever she can, and blames her sexual relation- ship with Jude for ...
explicitly naming the relationship as a sexual one. In addition, literary critics have long found homoerotic undertones in works ...
born into a caste, a person will face many obstacles in attempting to maneuver beyond certain stigmas or narrowly defined possib ...
education. Christmas internalizes the racial “glass ceiling” and sees it at each possible opportunity. Addressing issues of soci ...
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