Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature

(Marvins-Underground-K-12) #1
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Sister Carrie I:376
Small Place II:653–655
social class I:102
Tree Grows in Brooklyn III:997
work I:121
power
Anthills of the Savannah I:125
Cat’s Cradle III:1107
Lord of the Rings III:1069, 1070
Trifles II:489
Vindication of the Rights of Woman
III:1168
Yellow Wallpaper II:485, 486
“Prayer for My Daughter, A” (Yeats)
III:1189
prejudice
Black Boy III:1181, 1183
Buddha of Suburbia II:686
Color Purple III:1116
Dracula III:1033
Lesson before Dying II:472, 473
Light in August II:427, 428
Notes on the State of Virginia II:623
oppression I:76
Poisonwood Bible II:663
Pride and Prejudice I:192
Pygmalion III:974
Song of Solomon II:801
Up from Slavery III:1117
Premio Quinto Sol award I:154
pride I:81–84
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
II:469
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof III:1152–1153
Cat’s Cradle III:1109
Common Sense III:861
Death of a Salesman II:769–770
Doctor Faustus II:733–734
God of Small Things III:913–914
Going after Cacciato III:832
Gulliver’s Travels III:1040–1041
Heart of the Matter II:503
Henry IV III:929–930
House of the Spirits I:146
Julius Caesar III:937–938
Lord of the Rings III:1068
Medea I:421
Much Ado about Nothing III:954–956
“Murders in the Rue Morgue” III:879
“My Last Duchess” I:237–238
Nineteen Eighty-Four III:854
North and South II:480–481
Oedipus Rex III:1006
Pride and Prejudice I:190–193
“Rappaccini’s Daughter” II:533–534
Pride and Prejudice (Austen) I:83–84,
189–193


Prince, The (Machiavelli) I:26; II:724–728
Principles of Psychology ( James) I:63
“Prioress’s Tale, The” (Chaucer) I:274
prison III:998–1001
privilege III:853
Privilege, Power, and Difference ( Johnson)
I:76
Prix Goncourt prize III:891
profit motive II:729
Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus) I:83
Protestantism I:112–113, 241
Proust, Marcel I:70; III:891–894
Pueblo Indians II:785–789
Pulitzer Prize
Beloved II:792
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof III:1151
Fences III:1160
Grapes of Wrath III:1012
To Kill a Mockingbird II:701
Lonesome Dove II:749
Long Day’s Journey into Night III:847
Optimist’s Daughter III:1119
Our Town III:1147
punishment
Beggar’s Opera II:482, 483
“Billy Budd, Sailor” II:757, 758
In Cold Blood I:256–257
Crime and Punishment I:359
cruelty I:21
“Good Man Is Hard to Find” III:840
Lesson before Dying II:472–473
Moll Flanders I:323, 324
Paradise Lost II:772
Tom Jones II:436–437
Purgatorio (Dante) I:312–314
Puritanism
The Crucible II:764–766
Narrative of the Captivity and
Restoration of Mrs. Mary
Rowlandson III:908–911
nature I:74, 75
Pilgrim’s Progress I:242
“Purloined Letter, The” (Poe) III:876
Pygmalion (Shaw) III:973–977
Q
quatrains I:297
“Queen Mother of the Western Skies”
(Tan) III:1052
quest narratives I:104
R
Rabbit, Run (Updike) I:44, 106–107, 109;
III:1096–1099
Rabbit at Rest (Updike) III:1096
Rabbit Is Rich (Updike) III:1096
Rabbit Redux (Updike) III:1096

Rabbit Remembered (Updike) III:1096
race I:84–86
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
III:1082–1084
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
II:466–467
Black Boy III:1180–1181
Bluest Eye II:797–798
Brown Girl, Brownstones II:735,
737–738
Buddha of Suburbia II:683–686
Burger’s Daughter II:494–497
Cane III:1074–1076
coming of age I:13, 14
Cry, the Beloved Country III:865–866
Dutchman II:625, 627–628
God of Small Things III:914
“Goophered Grapevine” I:280–281
Go Tell It on the Mountain I:196, 197
Great Gatsby II:442
Heart of Darkness I:300–301
House on Mango Street I:286
Langston Hughes II:581–582
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
I:160, 162–163
Interesting Narrative of the Life of
Olaudah Equiano I:406
Invisible Man I:392–393
Joy Luck Club III:1050
justice I:66
To Kill a Mockingbird II:702–704
Kim II:671
Lesson before Dying II:470–473
Light in August II:426–428
Merchant of Venice III:945–947
Moby-Dick II:760–761
Narrative of the Life of Frederick
Douglass I:364–365
Notes on the State of Virginia
II:622–624
oppression I:77, 78
Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave
I:204–206
Othello III:958–959
Passage to India II:450
Raisin in the Sun II:510
On the Road II:645
Song of Solomon II:800–801
Souls of Black Folk I:376
Sula II:803, 805–806
Tar Baby II:807–808
The Tempest III:968–969
Tripmaster Monkey II:665–666
Uncle Tom’s Cabin III:1037–1038
Waiting for the Barbarians I:293–294
Wide Sargasso Sea III:901
Race and Ethnic Relations (Marger) I:76
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