One major and obvious theme that is constant throughout the novel is obsession. ... The second theme that is continuous throughout the story is imprisonment. ... Part one ends with a chilling exposition of Lolita's situation "In the middle of the night she came sobbing into my room, and we made it up vert gently. ... One of these is the way he marks down the viewing of Miranda in his diary. ... He is also meticulous in his actions making sure that he never forgot a viewing of her. ...

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Raymond Carver: A Clearer View The year 1977 was an extraordinary year for Raymond Carver. ... Most of Carvers stories from this period of his life were left without a real ending, leaving the reader to make an assumption, but leaving very little room for an optimistic ending. ... The ending of this story is simply written, "the room went dark" (154). ... The theme of this story, the idea that learning never ends, is very appropriate considering Carver had just then at age forty really learned his lessons and found his strengths and learned to deal with his problems. ... After Carver&...

• Word Count: 1298
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Many authors are acknowledged for having reoccurring themes found throughout their career. ... He is well known for his reoccurring theme that romantic love is mentally redeeming. ... A man who lived a successful life with wealth supporting him, yet he wasn't happy with it. ... This led him to be ashamed of how the society he lived in viewed things. ... The story starts off with the three brothers and Mabel sitting around a dining room table. ...

• Word Count: 569
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

After Louise finds out the news of the death of her husband, Brently Mallard, Louise's first reaction was to depart in a "storm of grief" with "wild abandonment" (Chopin 3). However instead of being in a state grief, Louise began to sit in her chair alone in her room and started to "reach in to her soul" (Chopin 4). ... With her new state of mind Louise becomes jovial because of the felling of ecstasy. ... Subsequently Louise's husband shows up to be alive, while at the same time, Louise dies and was killed with her over excitement. ... The author's theme that was presented ...

• Word Count: 274
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

This book will help you view and understand love in the literary overview of love. ... A common theme Carver's stories had were dysfunctional communication leads into violence of relationships that destroys their love. ... He dragged me around the living room by my ankles. ... This passage supports my theme because Teri and her ex-husband had a terrible dysfunctional communication. ... The story starts when they both are in a room of the motel and Holly seems upset because she found out that her significant other has cheated on her with the Juanita the maid. ...

• Word Count: 1327
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

In the film Jud Suss, the screenwriter designed to set for a Nazi propaganda themed movie, which was very controversial. From beginning to end the use of stereotyping helped create the characters Duke Alexander and Dorethea Sturm to help portray his anti-Semitic views to the public. ... With the help of Oppenheimer, a hackneyed, money-hungry, con artist with a long beard and great wittiness, the Duke begins to gain everything a man of power could ever wish. ... After a moment of affection, they quickly part in order to remain clean and proper when Sturm walks into the room. ... She is a cha...

• Word Count: 590
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Though there are many other themes in the novel, love seems to stand out more than other themes like money, hate, and revenge. ... God bless the poor little child, I said to your sister, there's room for him at the forge!'... Great Expectations offered many different types and views on love. ... It also demonstrated love in a confused state with the coming of age lead character Pip. ... In the end though, all characters learned something from their experiences with the sentiment called love. ...

• Word Count: 997
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• Grade Level: High School

Gillian shows these values only to represent the materialistic views of society, and that they should not be thought of as achieving true happiness. ... Gillian uses sagacity with Jack and Anne to help represent the theme that nothing is more important than true friendship and love. ... The first scene shown in the movie is the where Jack is on the radio in a room that seems to look somewhat like a jail. ... Gillian uses the elevated style of presentation to help further the plot and explore theme. ... Gillian shows the theme of spiritual values as what brings true happiness, not the materia...

• Word Count: 1513
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Henry and the men that are traveling with him become stuck in the mud with their vehicles. ... When their son is born Frederic has no emotion when he views his son. ... When Catherine dies, Frederic just leaves and walks in the rain back to his room. ... Hemingway moved through the plot elements of this story using different themes that blended the story well suggesting that war, love and loss is only temporary. The recurring theme throughout this story is about war and love and that both have consequences that lead to losing something that you cannot get back....

• Word Count: 1000
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• Grade Level: High School

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.... Diving further into that point, Helena also remarks how although she has this reputation of being fair and beautiful, it doesn't matter because the man she is trying to impress doesn't view her in that way. ... "Wanting what you can't have" is one of love's most imminent themes. ... She claims that "love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind." Although there is room to argue for truth here, I believe this more or less an anger-driven cover up for love no...

• Word Count: 1286
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

In her room, Juliet awaits the arrival of her new husband. ... Romeo sneaks into Juliet's room that night, and at last they consummate their marriage and their love. ... He concocts a plan to reunite Juliet with Romeo in Mantua. ... When Juliet refuses to leave with him, he flees alone. ... Among his friends, especially while bantering with Mercutio, Romeo ...

• Word Count: 13391
• Approx Pages: 54
• Grade Level: High School

A short while later, Armand enters the room to search through documents on a table. ... He leaves the room. ... Themes Racism and Gender Bias Like many other American men of the mid-nineteenth century South, Armand Aubigny bases the worth of a person primarily on his or her race and gender. ... Finally, like other Old South plantation owners, he viewed the blackness of his slaves as a defect that colored even their souls. ... Come with your child." ...

• Word Count: 2905
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

A perfect example Auerbach gives is the anticipation and waiting at the drawing-room, "before the gentlemen came.... From an optimistic view, even if Jane hadn't been so lucky, if all of the three females followed Elizabeth's example of learning, would they have all ended up happily in marriages of love and fortune (i.e. does Austen use Elizabeth's story as a formula for female readers to follow so they can find marriages of love and fortune?)? Or, from a more pessimistic view, did the marriages of these three females, Elizabeth, Jane, and Charlotte, turn out the way they d...

• Word Count: 1738
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The story of Yvain begins in King Arthur's court with two conflicts. While the king is depicted as neglecting his duty and instead sleeping in his room, Lord Kay, the cynical and unpopular knight in Arthur's court is shown in conflict with Yvain. ... Perhaps the most prominent theme throughout the plot of the story is Yvain's love for Laudin. ... The battle with the giant is followed by his encounter with the three knights who mean to kill Lunette. ... In conclusion, De Troyes' Yvain presents the reader with a very idealistic view of twelfth century values and realities...

• Word Count: 1551
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Sula, her second novel, deals with themes of race, womanhood, the effects of history, and the contingencies of love. ... What would I look like leapin' 'round that little room playin' with youngins with three beets to my name? ... When Sula became ill, Nel, with a sense of calmness, visited her at home. ... Instantly, her views become aligned with those of the town and she "belonged to the town and all of its ways" (Morrison, 120). ... Sula's view of evil and her motives are based on a different goal and she evaluates her actions by a different set of standards; in other w...

• Word Count: 2614
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

This essay investigates how far "The Importance of Being Earnest" reflects this view on life. ... Jack sums it up from his point of view. ... Cecily sums up the main theme in the play when she says to Algernon: "I hope that you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. ... The name is central to the plot regarding marriage to women with money and status. ... (Act 1 p16) Among the views expressed by Wilde's characters is that romance and happiness is hindered within the bounds of marriage and once marriage is proposed romance en...

• Word Count: 2564
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Beckett provides his characters with the view of what they want, in this case, the relationships, but this makes it all the more cruel, and seemingly impossible, within an impossible situation. ... The ideas presented will be reinforced with the conclusions of Theodore W. ... Be with me.'13 They still remain together as Ada appears when Henry calls and Willie is present throughout the play. ... Even if this is the case, through reading much of Beckett's work we can see that he had a 'fascination with paradoxes'15 and so although his work here presents us with the entrapmen...

• Word Count: 3587
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"The importance of being Earnest- can be regraded as a comedy although it has more serious and dramatics themes. ... From my point of view, using this characters, Oscar Wilde wants to do a criticism to the Victorian society. ... Apart from this, from my point of view the story becomes more and more interesting as the play goes on. ... They go into the music room. ... She tells him his brother is in the dining room; Jack says he doesn't have a brother. ...

• Word Count: 3629
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School