Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave 203 Gender in Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave As a woman who exists in a patriarchal culture that is ...
204 Behn, Aphra titular character of Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko is an aris- tocratic hero trapped in a capitalist plot; at the same t ...
Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave 205 cately concerned with issues of race. The tale is told by an eyewitness narrator who both coll ...
206 Bellow, Saul the nature of race: Oroonoko is a prince, and he is a prince whether African or European. Victoria E. Price BEL ...
The Adventures of Augie March 207 and so you must be flexible. You kiss the woman and you show how you love your fate, and you w ...
208 Bellow, Saul While Augie’s personal journey is steeped in the classical tradition, he remains cognizant but sus- picious of ...
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” 209 we are, and we have to make it look better.” Like Augie, Simon realizes that much of cla ...
210 Bierce, Ambrose follows Farquhar’s inner life during the split second it takes for him to drop from the bridge to his death: ...
Bierce’s story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” allows access into the soul of the protagonist, Peyton Farquhar, and shows th ...
212 Black Elk tagonist struggles in vain to evade his own death, the ultimately isolating event in the human life cycle. The plo ...
Black Elk Speaks 213 Wounded Knee in 1890. These pivotal events are told through the eyes and voice of a Lakota sha- man, while ...
214 Black Elk nities, Black Elk eventually realizes that the strength and survival of his community resided in the coming togeth ...
Black Elk Speaks 215 It would mean unifying a broken people and reem- powering them by resurrecting the slaughtered bison and de ...
216 Blake, William and connected. Performing other rites, such as the imported Ghost Dance or the Heyoka Ceremony, which mimicks ...
Songs of Innocence and of Experience 217 grateful for Jesus’ sacrifice for the redemption of humanity, including her baby and he ...
218 Blake, William Another aspect of the visual version of Songs is the way Blake’s nature encloses and surrounds the text in ea ...
Fahrenheit 451 219 and its innocent counterpart, the lamb. Throughout Songs, Blake emphasizes God’s divine abilities and love fo ...
220 Bradbury, Ray state in Fahrenheit 451 limits human expression and restricts the human spirit. Books and the ideas they carry ...
Fahrenheit 451 221 ideas he has always accepted. Although Montag finds no easy answers to his questions, he does develop a need ...
222 Bradbury, Ray embodies a work of literature and introduces himself not with a name but with the title of the work he or she ...
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