Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
Beowulf 163 vegetables. All night they heard him mourn from his hiding place “as if he had, in fact, been guilty of some heinous ...
164 Anonymous such prominent themes as community, religion, violence, and revenge. Tony Perrello cOmmunity in Beowulf The basic ...
Beowulf 165 Grendel’s mother proves a tougher challenge for Beowulf than does her son, but the dragon costs him his life. The dr ...
166 Anonymous described with language recalling hell in Old En- glish homilies. More obvious is Beowulf ’s journey to seek out t ...
The Frogs 167 substituting gold in its stead. The threat of revenge afforded some safety in Anglo-Saxon culture, a world where e ...
168 Aristophanes functions served by poets; the other is to provide entertainment: “We chorus folk two privileges prize: / To am ...
The Frogs 169 ation by Dionysus, whose concluding judgment is the vehicle for the author’s take-home political mes- sage. Dionys ...
170 Aristophanes the god’s sensuousness, while Xanthias’s slowness in picking up the maid’s meaning exposes his rela- tive naïve ...
Lysistrata 171 Xanthias and Dionysus and between Aeschylus and Euripides, which are empowered by direct dia- logue. Euripides, o ...
172 Aristophanes women make love and as long as human beings try to kill one another, and thus, sex and war remain fundamental t ...
Lysistrata 173 as a fifth-century Athenian male citizen could have been. It is probable that some of his literary and public att ...
174 Aristophanes lusty desires of men and women, both young and old, should not be taken as low-brow humor incor- porated for me ...
The Handmaid ’s Tale 175 that when sex is taken away. By weaving bawdy references throughout the text, Aristophanes man- dates s ...
176 Atwood, Margaret [the owner’s] will” becomes shameful. However, the passive reproductive body is sanctified. It is a sacred ...
The Handmaid ’s Tale 177 Even Offred, once in contact with Mayday, starts playing a spy game. Her relationship with the Com- man ...
178 Atwood, Margaret women within that system have no power at all: the Marthas are the housekeepers who are in charge of the Co ...
Surfacing 179 ductive freedom; initially, she refers to her former lover as her “husband” and tells the audience that their chil ...
180 Atwood, Margaret narrative, the protagonist is forced to examine her self-proclaimed victimization by both the American tech ...
The Confessions of St. Augustine 181 ing, the insidious and environmentally destructive attributes of “the south,” particularly ...
182 Augustine, Saint gious and philosophical movements, most of which carry him further from God. Much of Confessions’s narrativ ...
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