1210 Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
U.S.A. trilogy I:354
violence I:118
Women in Love II:695
“Modern Love” (Keats) II:642
Modest Proposal, A (Swift) III:1042–1046
Molière II:778–785
Moll Flanders (Defoe) I:321–324
Momaday, N. Scott II:785–792
monarchy
Common Sense III:861–863
Henry IV III:927–931
Henry V III:931–934
King Lear III:938–942
money II:753
Montaigne, Michel I:22
Montesquieu (Charles-Louis de Secondat,
baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu)
I:58
moral imperative III:863
morality
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
III:1084
All the Pretty Horses II:740
The Hobbit III:1064
hope I:50
Lord of the Flies II:493
The Misanthrope II:778, 779
Prince II:725
Pygmalion III:975
morality tales III:1106
Mormons II:688–690
Morris, David B. I:56
Morris, Tom I:108
Morrison, Toni II:792–809
Beloved II:792–796
Bluest Eye II:796–799
commodification/commercialization
I:18
grief I:44
guilt I:46
identity I:55
Song of Solomon II:799–803
suffering I:110–111
Sula II:803–806
Tar Baby II:806–809
mortality
“Fall of the House of Usher” III:873
Hamlet III:923
Leaves of Grass III:1133, 1134
In Memoriam A. H. H. III:1055
“Mother” (Sherwood) I:159
“Mother, A” ( Joyce) II:628
“Mourning and Melancholia” (Freud) I:43
Mrs Dalloway (Woolf ) I:29–30, 44, 88;
III:1170–1173
Much Ado about Nothing (Shakespeare)
III:953–956
Muir, John I:75
Mukherjee, Bharati II:809–813
multiculturalism III:897
Mumbo Jumbo (Reed) III:897–901
Murder in the Cathedral (Eliot) I:92
“Murders in the Rue Morgue, The” (Poe)
III:876–880
Muslims I:92–93; II:777; III:917
“Mutability” (Shelley) III:983
mutiny II:757–759
My Ántonia (Cather) I:265–268
My Fair Lady (film) III:974
“My Last Duchess” (Browning)
I:235–239
“My Lucy Friend Who Smells Like Corn”
(Cisneros) I:288, 290
“My Prisons” (Thoreau) III:1058–1060
“Mystery of Marie Rogêt, The” (Poe)
III:876
myth II:791; III:1046
Myth of Sisyphus, The (Camus) I:38
mythology
Aeneid III:1101
ambition I:6
Antigone III:1001
death I:23, 24
hope I:50
Midsummer Night’s Dream III:949
Oedipus Rex III:1004–1008
pride I:82–83
work I:120
“My Tocaya” (Cisneros) I:290
N
Nabokov, Vladimir III:815–818
Naipaul, V. S. III:818–827
Napoleonic Wars III:1070–1074
Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration
of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (Rowlandson)
III:907–911
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
(Douglass) I:361–365
freedom I:36–37
Invisible Man I:393
oppression I:78
National Book Award
All the Pretty Horses II:739
The Chosen III:887
Ralph Ellison I:390
White Noise I:328
National Book Critics Circle Award
II:667
nationalism I:71–73
Bend in the River III:819, 822–823
Doctor Faustus II:732–733
Dracula III:1033–1034
Dubliners II:628Farewell to Arms II:545–546
Farewell to Manzanar II:576–577
Henry V III:931–932
Kim II:671–672
Merchant of Venice III:945–946
Midnight’s Children III:917–918
Much Ado about Nothing III:954
“Murders in the Rue Morgue”
III:879–880
Passage to India II:451–452
Prince II:726–727
Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon
II:600–601
Surfacing I:179–180
Tom Jones II:437–438
William Butler Yeats III:1189–1190
Native Americans
Almanac of the Dead III:984–985
American dream, the I:9–10
Bean Trees II:658, 659
Bingo Palace I:408–411
Black Elk Speaks I:212–216
Ceremony III:988–991
“Civil Disobedience” III:1057, 1058,
1060
House Made of Dawn II:785–789
Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistf ight in
Heaven I:141–144
Love Medicine I:411–414
Narrative of the Captivity and
Restoration of Mrs. Mary
Rowlandson III:907–911
nature I:73, 74
Notes on the State of Virginia II:622,
623
stages of life I:105
Tracks I:414–418
Way to Rainy Mountain II:789–792
Native Son (Wright) III:1183–1187
Black Boy III:1181, 1183
family I:32
oppression I:77
race I:85
rejection I:90
suffering I:111
Natural, The (Malamud) II:728–732
natural history II:622–625
Natural Law in the Spiritual World
(Drummond) I:104
natural rights III:862, 1169
natural science I:96
nature I:73–76
Aeneid III:1100
All the Pretty Horses II:741–742
“American Scholar” I:396
“awful tempest mashed the air, An”
I:350