Themes often help to create a whole story line.
tend to use the same themes in their writing.
the themes they use may change due to how the writers have .
changed. Some writers use the same themes in all of their writing, .
but others tend to use many different themes. In her writing, .
Louisa May Alcott touched upon various different themes.
The early writings of Louisa May Alcott were rarely .
recognized. In the first phase of her writing, 1840's-1860's, she .
wrote some short stories. Most of them featured a mysterious, .
vengeful woman bent on manipulation and destruction (Schafer 1). .
Common themes that Louisa often used included self-sacrifice, .
duty, charity, self-reliance, and patients. She also touched the .
surfaces of jealousies, fears and frivolities (Durbin 1). A lot of the .
stories Louisa wrote early on she never really put her name too. .
She also wrote children's stories and was mostly know for these. .
"Flower Fables, the first volume that she put her name on, were .
stories and poems that were moral fables, rather windy and .
obvious but emotionally revealing" (Saxton 192). Most of .
Louisa's early works touched upon these themes along with .
domestic life in the nineteenth-century and maturing adolescent. .
These themes are what Louisa's early writings were based .
around.
In the early writings the themes used tend to come from .
2.
some point of Louisa's. "Louisa's world works with clocklike .
moral regularity" (Saxton 4). With Louisa's father being very .
critical of her work, she tried her hardest to write to his approval. .
She used her own life experiences for her writing. She took what .
she knew and what she likes and used them to write, which showed .
in the themes. Her stories defied nineteenth-century values of .
womanhood again brought on by how she was treated by her father .
(MacDonald 10). She would also indulge her passions in her .
