Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
The Awakening 283 The ending of The Awakening is a very famous and contested passage in which Edna kills herself by swimming out ...
284 Cisneros, Sandra invites her soul to “wander in abysses of solitude.” She enters the ocean naked and “absolutely alone.” Kat ...
The House on Mango Street 285 Cordero through her own eyes as she comes to maturity in the slums of Chicago. She is the daugh- t ...
286 Cisneros, Sandra she want to be trapped into motherhood in order to have one? Does she want to be afraid of her own shadow? ...
The House on Mango Street 287 school “[b]ecause I didn’t have nice clothes.” Finally, Esperanza is aware that she does not wish ...
288 Cisneros, Sandra Hanging around with boys proves very painful for Esperanza, and she blames Sally, saying “Sally, you lied. ...
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories 289 Chicanas are influenced by bicultural and bina- tional gender icons as well. In “Eye ...
290 Cisneros, Sandra In “My Tocaya,” a Catholic high school tries to control the contact between boys and girls by limiting inte ...
Waiting for the Barbarians 291 endures the pain of betrayal but continues to love the man in her life in spite of everything. Cl ...
292 Coetzee, J. M. for bed, the reader is treated to a nighttime of silence and beauty as the Magistrate takes his mat to the ro ...
Waiting for the Barbarians 293 The Magistrate sets himself apart from Colonel Joll, the outsider who has come to his settlement, ...
294 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor described as “grey,” but taken in context, this is only because the prisoner is dirty from making a ...
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” 295 Coleridge revised the poem numerous times; the version in his 1817 collection Sibylline Le ...
296 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor to tell his story to keep it alive for his listeners, who themselves will reiterate his tale. Jenni ...
nature in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” The “rime” of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner denotes not only the “rhyme” ...
298 Conrad, Joseph CONRAD, JOSEPH Heart of Darkness (1899, 1902) Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness, a seminal work in th ...
Heart of Darkness 299 low labors to bring order into the chaotic operations of the El Dorado Exploring Expedition. Later, uprive ...
300 Conrad, Joseph meaningful contact with native Africans, who are rarely granted human status in his narrative and var- iously ...
Lord Jim 301 tions “weaning those ignorant millions from their horrid ways,” he suggests that “the Company was run for profit.” ...
302 Conrad, Joseph tains some of Conrad’s best writing, opinions have been divided on the novel’s second part. Some see it as a ...
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