Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
Moll Flanders 323 perfectly clear to the reader. During the episode in which Moll marries her fifth husband, whom she calls the ...
324 Defoe, Daniel has in her life are nearly always the result of her lack of experience—in other words, her innocence. The daug ...
Robinson Crusoe 325 Himself. With an account how he was at last as strangely delivered by Pyrates. Written by Himself ) (1719) R ...
326 Defoe, Daniel in the sand and understands that he is not alone at the island, his isolation is extended. Realizing that it i ...
more than those Christians were Murtherers, who often put to Death the Prisoners taken in Battle; or more frequently, upon many ...
328 DeLillo, Don focusing on the options, even if they are limited, makes him appear more of a sovereign of the island than a vi ...
White Noise 329 sense of it at first. This level of subconscious prod- uct placement pervades the novel and the cultural “white ...
discuss at length how they each hope to be the first to die and argue at length about which of them will suffer more as the surv ...
A Christmas Carol 331 it dissolves in a slow and controlled fashion to deliver its chemicals at a precise rate—she calls it “a w ...
332 Dickens, Charles deatH in A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol begins with these simple words: “Marley was ...
A Christmas Carol 333 and charity. The central theme is that money does not make happiness, and that those who have it should gi ...
334 Dickens, Charles and beer. Talking to the ghost, Scrooge admits he has been very bad with his poor clerk, Bob Cratchit. The ...
David Copperf ield 335 foundation of his childhood by describing his anxi- eties about his dead father and his uncanny child’s o ...
336 Dickens, Charles practices of the Victorian educational system, which he regarded as abusive of children and adolescents. Da ...
Great Expectations 337 Through its autobiographical form, the novel depicts a world initially perceived by the child through the ...
338 Dickens, Charles Mrs. Joe, and her husband, Joe. Early in the story, Pip’s “expectations” of life are quite low. Mrs. Joe th ...
Great Expectations 339 even then,” and he notes the oppressive gloom of the nearby old brewery. But at the end of the same passa ...
340 Dickens, Charles To learn that that was only in his imagination is a serious blow. Magwitch, too, has been gravely wounded b ...
Oliver Twist 341 young Magwitch; he was born to have no expecta- tions at all. When Pip shows him kindness in the churchyard, he ...
342 Dickens, Charles authorities who regard the pauper children under their protection as mere sources of labor, at best, and as ...
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