Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
where they attempt to sustain themselves. However, the local authorities confiscate their land because, by an unfortunate mishap ...
more nuanced interpretations of the disconnect between the perceived reality of the physical world and a conceived reality of a ...
ral worlds, such that a divine influence or presence is rendered as an aesthetic sensibility (an artistic, visual representation ...
ing the life span of each living thing, with man in his greed receiving the rejected remainder from the more humble donkey, dog, ...
made to understand that Harry’s flight from young adulthood is not only futile but also destructive. Interestingly, Updike’s thr ...
sue goals that were geared toward making them unhappy. It seems, then, that success might best be equated with, or at least link ...
who manages to rise to prosperity on the strength of his character and determination. Decker believes that these stories allowed ...
Feeling worthy of success in this way is, perhaps, a criterion for achieving it. The underlying reason why many literary charact ...
because she feels she is deserving of it. Like Pecola, she is vastly insecure and has adopted society’s limited standards for be ...
depicting suffering also inspires hope and confi- dence in the resilience of the human spirit. In most stories, suffering is tem ...
and texts of Europe. The inception of the printing press in the 15th century facilitated the transmis- sion of Martin Luther’s a ...
is truly poetry of inclusion, stressing both his spirit and body; by commemorating, rather than debasing his physicality, Whitma ...
tradition Although most people today might think that the word tradition is a reference to things from the past that are fixed a ...
of intertextuality, does. The question Virgil raises for the characters within the story is whether their virtue will be enough ...
Aristophanes: FroGs, the; Browning, Robert: “My Last Duchess”; Dickens, Charles: christ- Mas caroL, a; Dreiser, Theodore: aMeric ...
positive. Drawing on notions of power developed by the French philosopher Michel Foucault, Newton Garver’s essay “What Violence ...
(1952) and sLauGhterhouse-Five (1969), which portray the violent decay of the modern world. Racial violence is apparent in novel ...
work The concept of work is notoriously difficult to define. The payment of wages cannot be the sole criterion in determining wh ...
herds, stable hands, miners, factory workers, and so on). One cause for the foregrounding of work is a change in attitude toward ...
that result from collective values and individual resilience. And without overlooking the profound damage done by Willy Loman’s ...
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