Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature

Their Eyes Were Watching God 583 because “This freedom feeling was fine. These men didn’t represent a thing she wanted to know a ...

584 Huxley, Aldous This kiss is the culmination of Janie’s discovery of her sexuality, symbolized by the pear tree in which she ...

Brave New World 585 ensures everybody’s happiness. The idea of “fami- lies” has been abandoned; instead, human beings are produc ...

586 Huxley, Aldous that way goes against her conditioning and is, thus, impossible for her. On their second date, Marx takes Len ...

Brave New World 587 way of indoctrinating people in their sleep. Having recognized that this method works most efficiently when ...

588 Ibsen, Henrik in their eventual removal from the World State by Mustafa Mond. Mond is the only character in the novel who no ...

A Doll ’s House 589 confess openly to his crime and take his punish- ment, a more morally defensible act than that of perpetuati ...

590 Ibsen, Henrik concerned with his own well-being. He too forged a document in his past, causing him to lose not only his job ...

Hedda Gabler 591 money, rather than love, and this decision proves a bad one when she discovers her new husband’s busi- ness ven ...

592 Ibsen, Henrik manuscript and encourages a frantic Løvborg to commit suicide. Her husband and Mrs. Elvstd dedi- cate themselv ...

Hedda Gabler 593 ceptive remark in a letter to George Brandes, Ibsen’s lifelong friend and an academic: Greater things than [sta ...

594 Irving, John Brack’s reference to her pregnancy. Her extreme sense of vulnerability and aggression that arises out of her se ...

The World According to Garp 595 ing the reader the unusual insight of exploring the somewhat causal, always tenuous relationship ...

596 Irving, John “more lust,” he presents only the most straightfor- ward of Irving’s male complexities and inversions. At first ...

The World According to Garp 597 Milton feels no guilt for his dalliance with a married woman: It is a conquest and a desire that ...

598 Irving, Washington children from a terrible emotional scene when Garp discovers Helen’s infidelity, Garp takes his chil- dre ...

The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon 599 to her husband’s “tall, manly person.” At first, the husband of the piece refuses to share ...

600 Irving, Washington in the morning,” which makes him appear “selfish and uninteresting,” something the narrator blames solely ...

The Remains of the Day 601 references the Revolution and the Puritans and uses these allusions to create a sense of place and hi ...

602 Ishiguro, Kazuo England in 1956. Stevens recounts various strands of stories during the six days: unreliable memories of his ...