Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
The Martian Chronicles 223 environment. Bradbury’s characters are cut off from their ecosystem and their wider system of social ...
224 Bradbury, Ray has something to do with knowledge, respect, and a deep belonging, as Spender had sensed intuitively during hi ...
Of Plymouth Plantation 225 The miracle house of technology falls apart at the seams, like the disintegrating death of a body, as ...
226 Bradford, William Protestant believers who were like-minded in what they saw as right Christian doctrine (orthodoxy) and rig ...
Of Plymouth Plantation 227 uses third-person pronouns (he, him, his, and so on) or the generic title “the Governor” says somethi ...
228 Bradford, William viewed from afar, from a distance that turns the story into material for meditation. This, perhaps, hints ...
Jane Eyre 229 These phrases help remind the pilgrims that suffer- ing is not meaningless. Instead, it is full of promise: God is ...
230 Brontë, Charlotte other victims’ deaths are not in vain: Their demises bring the school to public scrutiny. Although Mr. Bro ...
Jane Eyre 231 though Jane rejects his proposal at least three times, he refuses to take no for an answer. Partly to escape St. J ...
232 Brontë, Emily believes that it is God’s bidding that he become a missionary in India. Because of his belief in his destiny, ...
Wuthering Heights 233 was three, and two older sisters died when she was seven; she herself would die of tuberculosis by the age ...
234 Brontë, Emily characters in their circle. Brontë uses the novel’s isolated setting to symbolically highlight the fact that m ...
“My Last Duchess” 235 Early on in the novel, we learn that even as a child, “[Catherine] was much too fond of Heathcliff. The gr ...
236 Browning, Robert when it was reprinted in Dramatic Romances and Lyrics. Among his best-loved and most widely anthologized wo ...
to control both. At the same time, it defies both death and the duke’s power. In jealously reserv- ing the right to alternately ...
238 Browning, Robert nonchalance. He must assert his prerogatives, but he must do so discreetly, indirectly, and above all grace ...
The Pilgrim’s Progress 239 of orders. Not only has he felt himself barred from directly intervening in his wife’s conduct, but n ...
240 Bunyan, John Guilt in The Pilgrim’s Progress One of the most commanding images of the open- ing pages of John Bunyan’s The P ...
The Pilgrim’s Progress 241 To the very end, it is Christian’s belief in God’s promises that enables him to finally turn his own ...
242 Bunyan, John Faithful’s place, does keep company with Christian till the end. Faithful is killed by the residents of Vanity ...
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