Literary Themes

 Beauty of simplicity

 Capitalism – effect on the individual

 Change of power - necessity

 Change versus tradition

 Chaos and order

 Character – destruction, building up

 Circle of life

 Coming of age

 Communication – verbal and nonverbal

 Companionship as salvation

 Convention and rebellion

 Dangers of ignorance

 Darkness and light

 Death – inevitable or tragedy

 Desire to escape

 Destruction of beauty

 Disillusionment and dreams

 Displacement

 Empowerment

 Emptiness of attaining false dream

 Everlasting love

 Evils of racism

 Facing darkness

 Facing reality

 Fading beauty

 Faith versus doubt

 Family – blessing or curse

 Fate and free will

 Fear of failure

 Female roles

 Fulfillment

 Good versus bad

 Greed as downfall

 Growing up – pain or pleasure

 Hazards of passing judgment

 Heartbreak of betrayal

 Heroism – real and perceived

 Hierarchy in nature

 Identity crisis

 Illusion of power

 Immortality

 Individual versus society

 Inner versus outer strength

 Injustice

 Isolation

 Isolationism - hazards

 Knowledge versus ignorance

 Loneliness as destructive force

 Losing hope

 Loss of innocence

 Lost honor

 Lost love

 Love and sacrifice

 Man against nature

 Manipulation

 Materialism as downfall

 Motherhood

 Names – power and significance

 Nationalism – complications

 Nature as beauty

 Necessity of work

 Oppression of women

 Optimism – power or folly

 Overcoming – fear, weakness, vice

 Patriotism – positive side or complications

 Power and corruption

 Power of silence

 Power of tradition

 Power of wealth

 Power of words

 Pride and downfall

 Progress – real or illusion

 Quest for discovery

 Quest for power

 Rebirth

 Reunion

 Role of men

 Role of Religion – virtue or hypocrisy

 Role of women

 Self – inner and outer

 Self-awareness

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