1216 Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
racism
Black Boy III:1180
Bluest Eye II:796, 798
Brown Girl, Brownstones II:737–738
Color Purple III:1116
Dutchman II:625–626
Member of the Wedding II:746
Song of Solomon II:800–801
suffering I:111
Sula II:803–805
Uncle Tom’s Cabin III:1037–1038
violence I:119
radicalism III:907, 1060
rags to riches
Great Gatsby II:440
social class I:102
success I:108–109
Up from Slavery III:1119
Rainbow, The (Lawrence) II:691–695
Raisin in the Sun, A (Hansberry) I:9, 111;
II:508–510
Raleigh, Sir Walter I:64
Rand, Ayn III:894–897
rape
Bluest Eye II:797–799
Color Purple III:1114
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
II:610
Native Son III:1186
Streetcar Named Desire III:1159, 1160
Women of Brewster Place III:829, 830
Rape of the Lock, The (Pope) III:883–887
“Rappaccini’s Daughter” (Hawthorne)
I:96–97; II:531–534
rationalization I:22–23
rational love I:195
Rawls, John I:66
realism I:54, 210, 211; III:1046
rebellion
Age of Innocence III:1123
Animal Farm III:850, 851, 853
Nineteen Eighty-Four III:854–856
Room with a View II:453
rebirth II:658, 659
“Reconciliation” (Whitman) III:1134
Red Badge of Courage, The (Crane) I:48,
308–311
“Red Convertible, The” (Erdrich) I:412
redemption I:295
Red Pony, The (Steinbeck) I:68;
III:1022–1025
Reed, Ishmael III:897–901
Reflections on Violence (Sorel) I:117
regret I:86–88
Bingo Palace I:411
David Copperf ield I:336, 337
Glass Menagerie III:1157
Joy Luck Club III:1052
Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistf ight in
Heaven I:142–143
Pride and Prejudice I:192
Remains of the Day II:604–605
Streetcar Named Desire III:1159–1160
War and Peace III:1072–1074
Winesburg, Ohio I:159
Reign of Terror III:1092
reincarnation III:1134
rejection I:88–91
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
III:1085
Annie John II:652
Buddha of Suburbia II:685–686
Cane III:1076
Fathers and Sons III:1079–1081
Fences III:1161–1162
Glass Menagerie III:1157
Great Expectations I:339–340
Lord of the Rings III:1069, 1070
Native Son III:1184–1186
Poisonwood Bible II:662
Slaughterhouse-Five III:1113
tradition I:115, 116
Twelfth Night III:972–973
religion I:91–93
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
III:1084–1085
Age of Reason III:856–860
“Bartleby, the Scrivener” II:755–756
Beowulf I:165–166
Black Boy III:1181–1182
Cane III:1076
Canterbury Tales I:274–275
Catch-22 II:542–543
Cat’s Cradle III:1106
childhood I:11
The Chosen III:887–890
Confessions of St. Augustine I:184–185
Cry, the Beloved Country III:867
Divine Comedy I:311, 312
“Divinity School Address” I:397–399
Doctor Faustus II:732, 734–735
Dubliners II:628, 631–633
ethics I:28
Fifth Business I:317
Fine Balance II:775–777
futility I:38–40
“Good Man Is Hard to Find”
III:838–839
Go Tell It on the Mountain I:197–199
Grapes of Wrath III:1014–1015
guilt I:45–46
Heart of the Matter II:502–503
hope I:50
House for Mr. Biswas III:826House of the Spirits I:147
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
I:150
identity I:53–54
Inherit the Wind II:700–701
innocence and experience I:60
Interesting Narrative of the Life of
Olaudah Equiano I:407
Kim II:672
Lesson before Dying II:472
Life in the Iron Mills I:321
Light in August II:426, 428–429
Little Women I:139, 141
In Memoriam A. H. H. III:1054–1055
Of Mice and Men III:1017
Middleman and Other Stories II:810
Midsummer Night’s Dream III:949,
953
Moby-Dick II:761–762
Mumbo Jumbo III:899, 900
Narrative of the Captivity and
Restoration of Mrs. Mary
Rowlandson III:910–911
Narrative of the Life of Frederick
Douglass I:362
Native Son III:1184
nature I:74
Night III:1136
Notes on the State of Virginia
II:624–625
Oedipus Rex III:1004, 1005,
1007–1008
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
III:1166–1167
Paradise Lost II:773–774
Pilgrim’s Progress I:241–243
Of Plymouth Plantation I:226–229
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
II:635–636
pride I:81–82
Prince II:727
Rainbow II:694–695
Red Badge of Courage I:310–311
Robinson Crusoe I:326–327
Room with a View II:454
Scarlet Letter II:536–538
sex and sexuality I:98
Percy Bysshe Shelley III:981
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry
God” I:380–384
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
I:217–219
Souls of Black Folk I:379, 380
spirituality I:103–105
stages of life I:105
survival I:112–113
Tartuffe II:784–785