Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
Oliver Twist 343 seek refuge from starvation and physical abuse by escaping into an underworld of crime and violence. Oliver’s f ...
344 Dickens, Charles the novel’s realistic portrayal of pauperism and espe- cially the exploitation of abandoned orphans by stat ...
A Tale of Two Cities 345 DICKENS, CHARLES A Tale of Two Cities (1859) A Tale of Two Cities was first published in 1859, 70 years ...
346 Dickens, Charles feminine propriety, is actually her way of keeping a record of antirevolutionary targets. She performs this ...
A Tale of Two Cities 347 Unlike the other characters in the novel who are left behind to enjoy the rewards of their heroic actio ...
348 Dickinson, Emily Revealing the identity of Madame Defarge may help us understand her impulse for revenge, but it does not go ...
poems 349 The theme of death informs the highly indi- vidual structure of Dickinson’s poems. Their often stark brevity and heavi ...
350 Dickinson, Emily range of mental suffering through images of des- erts, ice caps, earthquakes, storms, and whirlpools, as we ...
Out of Africa 351 going” champions the exhilaration to be had when the soul makes a journey from the “headlands” (a pun on the m ...
352 Dinesen, Isak that she provides the reader with a true portrait of Africa and its people. The memoir is not written in chron ...
Out of Africa 353 nature is both a friend and foe to the narrator. Dine- sen fundamentally views Africans as living closer to na ...
354 Dos Passos, John Kikuyu, who live on the coffee farm, work as pay- ment for their use of the unwanted land. Dinesen refers t ...
U.S.A. trilogy 355 fiction, the trilogy was a significant contribution to American literature. Unlike Ernest Hemingway and F. Sc ...
356 Dos Passos, John the truly tragic effect of capitalism on society. Only within such an inherently alienating context can Jan ...
own cinematic destiny; and Mary French, arguably the heroine of the trilogy, is the only one of the main characters that Dos Pas ...
358 Dostoyevsky, Fyodor can be gained by a true humanitarian enterprise. A political activist, Mary explains late in The Big Mon ...
Crime and Punishment 359 understanding of society is sobornost. Because every- one is related, a crime against one person is a c ...
360 Dostoyevsky, Fyodor all, but the redemptive suffering of one person is the redemptive suffering of all. This concept, com- b ...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself 361 the soul. For example, Marmeladov’s heavy ...
362 Douglass, Frederick remains so today. The work includes such themes as freedom, identity, race, and gender. Patrice Natalie ...
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