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What are some recurring themes in literature?

Please provide literary examples for each theme.
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ScottGiles | 1 year, 6 months ago
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Man against man and man against nature and, man against himself. Just about all stories (some will say ALL stories) are tales of conflict. The conflict will be an internal conflict (man against himself) or an external one (man against man, man against nature).

From time to time you'll read that there are five or seven basic stories and that all stories are based one one or a mixture of these archetypes. Maybe there's something to it (I'd believe it more if there was some kind of agreement as to what these archetypical stories are!) but those stories (if they exist) can still be distilled into the three basic conflicts enumerated here.

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hikalotbird | 1 year, 5 months ago
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Themes? Wow, that’s only as vast as human experience. Good vs. evil is one theme. The Bible certainly is full of that theme, but The Lord of the Flies by William Golding and the poem Paradise Lost by John Milton does too. Love misunderstood, then not returned can be found in A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare. The longing for home is prominent in The Odyssey by Homer. Understanding the struggles of others can be found in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Nell Lee. The theme of individuality vs. a repressive society is demonstrated in Ayn Rand’s novel The Fountainhead. The American dream and the illusion that it often presents is described in the novel of the Roaring Twenties by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s amazing work The Great Gatsby.

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