1218 Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
Satanic Verses (Rushdie) I:92
satire
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland I:257
Almanac of the Dead III:985, 986
Beggar’s Opera II:481–483
Candide III:1103
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s
Court III:1089
Don Juan I:246
Gulliver’s Travels III:1039–1042
Lucky Jim I:151, 152
Modest Proposal III:1042–1046
Playboy of the Western World III:1046
Rape of the Lock III:883–887
U.S.A. trilogy I:354, 357
Savage, J. B. I:36
savagery II:491
scandal II:453
scapegoating II:472–473
Scarlet Letter, The (Hawthorne) I:46, 80;
II:534–538
“Scented Herbage of My Breast”
(Whitman) III:1134
science and technology I:95–98
“Birth-mark” II:525–526
Cannery Row III:1010–1011
Cat’s Cradle III:1109–1110
Ceremony III:990–991
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s
Court III:1090–1091
Education of Henry Adams I:132–133
Frankenstein III:980–981
Giver II:723–724
Gulliver’s Travels III:1041–1042
Hound of the Baskervilles I:368
Leaves of Grass III:1134–1135
responsibility I:95
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
III:1027–1028
White Noise I:330–331
Women in Love II:697
science fiction
Anthem III:894–897
Cat’s Cradle III:1106–1110
Fahrenheit 451 I:219–222
Frankenstein III:977–981
Scorsese, Martin III:1122–1126
Scott-Moncrieff, C. K. III:891
Seagull, The (Chekhov) I:275–278
“Second Nun’s Prologue” (Chaucer) I:274
Second Treatise of Government (Locke)
I:35–36
sedition II:451
segregation II:796, 801; III:865
self-destruction III:1153
self-hatred II:473
self-image II:650
self-loathing II:636
self-pity III:848
self-preservation II:812
self-reliance III:1063
“Self-Reliance” (Emerson) I:400–404
self-worth II:646–648
Semitic literature I:89
Seneca I:21
Sense and Sensibility (Austen) I:90,
193–196
Separate Peace, A (Knowles) I:86, 100;
II:673–676
separation anxiety II:468
September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks
I:119
“September 1913” (Yeats) III:1187–1190
sermons I:380–384
“Seventh Street” (Toomer) III:1076
sex and sexuality I:98–100
Almanac of the Dead III:987
Angels in America II:689
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
II:457
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
II:466–467
Awakening I:284
Bluest Eye II:799
Brown Girl, Brownstones II:738–739
Buddha of Suburbia II:684
Cane III:1076–1077
Catcher in the Rye III:919
Color Purple III:1114–1115
Dracula III:1032, 1034–1035
Dutchman II:628
gender I:42
Go Tell It on the Mountain I:197, 199
House of Mirth III:1132
House on Mango Street I:286
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
I:150
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
II:608–611
Jude the Obscure II:513–514
John Keats II:641
Lolita III:815–818
love I:68
Love Medicine I:412–413
Lysistrata I:171–175
Midsummer Night’s Dream
III:951–953
The Natural II:730
Paradise Lost II:772–773
Remembrance of Things Past III:891
Salt Eaters I:201–202
Sister Carrie I:374–375
Steppenwolf II:563–564
Sula II:806Taming of the Shrew III:965–966
Tender Is the Night II:443–444
Tin Drum II:501
Tom Jones II:435–436
Tree Grows in Brooklyn III:995–996
Turn of the Screw II:620–622
Woman Hollering Creek and Other
Stories I:288–290
Women in Love II:697–698
Shakespeare, William III:921–973
ambition I:6–7
death I:24–25
fate I:34–35
futility I:38–39
gender I:42
grief I:44
guilt I:46
Hamlet III:921–927
Henry IV III:927–931
Henry V III:931–934
hope I:51
identity I:54
isolation I:64
Julius Caesar III:934–938
justice I:65
King Lear III:938–942
love I:68
Macbeth III:942–945
Merchant of Venice III:945–948
Midsummer Night’s Dream
III:948–953
Much Ado about Nothing III:953–956
oppression I:77
Othello III:956–959
parenthood I:79
regret I:86, 87
responsibility I:94
Romeo and Juliet III:959–963
sex and sexuality I:98, 99
stages of life I:106
Taming of the Shrew III:963–966
The Tempest III:966–970
Twelfth Night III:970–973
“Shaman” (Kingston) II:667, 668
Shaw, George Bernard I:243; III:973–977
Shelley, Mary III:977–981
abandonment I:2–3
death I:25
ethics I:29
parenthood I:80
pride I:83
responsibility I:95
science and technology I:96
Shelley, Percy Bysshe III:981–984
Sherlock Holmes I:365–369
Shocket, Eric I:102
Shorter, Edmund I:31