Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
Notes on the State of Virginia 623 example, can be explained by his careful scientific explanations, his “experiences,” so to sp ...
624 Jefferson, Thomas as the disparity in physical beauty between the two races. Unlike his treatment of Native Americans, he no ...
Dutchman 625 come together. Just like the natural world where things like the four seasons and day and night often remind us how ...
626 Jones, Leroi American (and African) folklore. She transforms herself over the course of the play, covering up and revealing ...
Dutchman 627 by Lula—she was determining what Clay said and when he said it. Clay, as a young African-American man, doesn’t have ...
628 Joyce, James spewing invectives against Lula’s (white) ignorance. It is at this juncture in the play that the worst racial e ...
Dubliners 629 individual hopes and dreams are unfulfilled due to the pressures of marriage and family. As a result of the tensio ...
630 Joyce, James been a lucrative literary career. This is symbolized by the “books of poetry upon his shelves” that he had boug ...
Dubliners 631 What an end! The whole narrative of her death revolted him and it revolted him to think that he had ever spoken to ...
632 Joyce, James to putting religion to non-religious, profitable ends. Religion therefore becomes empty of anything meaningful. ...
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 633 the subject indirectly, via his interest in the busi- ness community. This builds up ...
634 Joyce, James For the reader, Stephen’s account of his alien- ation starts at school. The other boys often seem to be in on a ...
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 635 clearly the comfort and safety Stephen associates with his infancy resonates as he b ...
636 Kafka, Franz priests will have in Stephen’s life. He fears them, and instinctively knows that many of the teachings to which ...
The Metamorphosis 637 the confines of his previous life and allows Gregor to achieve salvation in death. Sumeeta Patnaik Family ...
638 Kafka, Franz financial situation, but they also actually had a small savings from Herr Samsa’s failed business. Neverthe- le ...
The Metamorphosis 639 about a year. While Gregor is relieved to learn that his family will not starve, he is also hurt to learn ...
640 Keats, John to become financially independent and move on. Gregor’s sister, Grete, achieves what her brother was unable to a ...
poems 641 (l.1–3). He wishes he could follow the nightingale’s song out of the world, leaving behind his misery and pain. He doe ...
642 Keats, John praises “One-thoughted, never wand’ring, guileless love, / Unmask’d, and being seen—without a blot!” (l. 2–3). K ...
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