Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
The Beggar’s Opera 483 criminal in the play, escapes punishment. The world of the Peachums and the Black Molls is corrupt and un ...
484 Gilman, Charlotte Perkins of criminal activity while he ponders his “foolish wench,” Polly. Macheath confesses that Polly’s ...
The Yellow Wallpaper 485 Almost all major anthologies of American literature include The Yellow Wallpaper. Carmine Esposito Free ...
486 Gilman, Charlotte Perkins marriage.” The attitude John has toward the narrator reflects the general attitude of men toward w ...
Trifles 487 experience with illness and the “rest cure.” At the beginning of The Yellow Wallpaper, we learn that the narrator, l ...
488 Glaspell, susan and find clues that might aid them in solving the crime. In their search, they concentrate on the bed- room, ...
Trifles 489 the patriarchal order and thus declare their rights as individuals and women. In our so-called enlightened time, we ...
490 Glaspell, susan This position is supported by Minnie’s sleeping arrangements. As she tells the sheriff, she did not notice J ...
Lord of the Flies 491 its death, Mrs. Peters fully comprehends Minnie’s loneliness. It is this shared experience that convinces ...
492 Golding, William and the other boys kill him, thinking him a mon- ster. Ralph and his friend Piggy feel remorse over Simon’s ...
Lord of the Flies 493 boy begins to throw rocks at the younger, intention- ally missing and forming a circle of rocks around him ...
494 Gordimer, Nadine quit keeping up the signal fire, causing them to actu- ally miss a chance at rescue. Once again, the boys t ...
Burger’s Daughter 495 in any self-professed morality I knew.” Lionel risks everything, including his own life, as he holds to hi ...
496 Gordimer, Nadine experience: “When I go into the café to buy bread they give the kaffir yesterday’s stale. When he goes for ...
Burger’s Daughter 497 At the beginning of the novel, Rosa is wait- ing in line in front of a prison to visit her mother. Within ...
498 Grass, Gunter graSS, gunTEr The Tin Drum (1959) Oskar Matzerath is undoubtedly one of the most remarkable characters in mode ...
The Tin Drum 499 The amount of incriminating evidence that Oskar discloses at the very least suggests a guilty conscience. Howev ...
500 Grass, Gunter Heart; he later introduces himself to the Dusters as Jesus and becomes their leader. When the Dusters break in ...
The Heart of the Matter 501 Polish post office; he stands by as Russian soldiers kill Alfred Matzerath; he watches Corporal Lank ...
502 Greene, Graham desperation, and the moral, human squalor of his environment. It is not until the incident on a ship called t ...
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