Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself 363 him for the next six months. Douglass sta ...
364 Douglass, Frederick into question as a result of this incident as well, for Douglass does not comment on Mr. Giles Hicks’s r ...
The Hound of the Baskervilles 365 Such activities, it is thought, affirm their inferiority and powerlessness. Racial codes impos ...
366 Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan by Hugo Baskerville continues to affect the lives of the current generations, reaching far beyond it ...
The Hound of the Baskervilles 367 lock Holmes, uses reason and deduction to demon- strate that what appears to be fate, to be de ...
368 Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan of rational deduction and strict adherence to class standards, remains an ideal Victorian hero. How- ...
An American Tragedy 369 against his evil plan is engendered not by a sense of justice but by fury at her husband’s infidelity. B ...
370 Dreiser, Theodore commodities, which were becoming more and more available for those with the means to afford them in postbe ...
An American Tragedy 371 labor, Dreiser opines, they are consigned to aspire but never achieve and to live bleak lives of quiet d ...
372 Dreiser, Theodore dreams and hopes. More so than Hardy, though, Dreiser, taking his cues from the philosopher Her- bert Spen ...
Sister Carrie 373 ment, much like a conundrum. Whatever alternative they choose will bring horrific consequences in its wake. Ho ...
374 Dreiser, Theodore sexual desire but also by an apparently genuine urge to protect her from the dog-eat-dog spirit of newly i ...
Sister Carrie 375 Hurstwood in New York City. Her relationships with both of her male protectors resemble marriage in all practi ...
376 DuBois, W. E. B. of $10 bills; hats, dresses, and little accessories; and the “shine and rustle of new things.” Pieces of cl ...
The Souls of Black Folk 377 population and help turn them away from black leaders such as Booker T. Washington, who pro- moted i ...
the school opens and he begins teaching her along with her many classmates, Josie studies “doggedly,” displaying herself (first ...
The Souls of Black Folk 379 To give readers an example of what he sees as a problematic way of thinking, DuBois critically exami ...
380 Edwards, Jonathan DuBois disagreed strongly with leaders such as Booker T. Washington, who started a new tradition of black ...
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” 381 obligatory and the path to hell is easily found. At one point, Edwards likens humanki ...
382 Edwards, Jonathan ever, if a member of the church decides to accept Christ, he or she will be “born again,” as Edwards implo ...
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