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Common Themes

Common Themes. Or: Thematic Patterns. Common Themes. Literature has a habit of repeating common themes throughout the centuries. Example: The Long Road Home The Odyssey Huckleberry Finn On the Road The Fugitive. Coming of Age. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer To Kill a Mockingbird

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Common Themes

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  1. Common Themes Or: Thematic Patterns

  2. Common Themes • Literature has a habit of repeating common themes throughout the centuries. • Example: The Long Road Home • The Odyssey • Huckleberry Finn • On the Road • The Fugitive

  3. Coming of Age The Adventures of Tom Sawyer To Kill a Mockingbird Harry Potter and the…whatever

  4. Selling Souls • Dates to the Middle Ages due to belief in the Devil as physical reality • In literature, dates to the legend of Faust, adopted by Goethe, Marlowe, etc.

  5. Popular Culture • Literature • “The Bottle Imp” Stevenson • “The Devil and Tom Walker” Irving • The Picture of Dorian Gray Wilde • Rosemary’s Baby Levin • Film • Bedazzled • Ghost Rider • The Little Mermaid • O Brother Where Art Thou?

  6. Pop Culture II • Music • “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” • “Crossroad Blues” • Robert Johnson, blues guitarist and singer, was believed to have sold his soul to the devil. • So was Niccolo Paganini, a virtuoso violinist

  7. Story design Basic Plot • Person strikes a deal with the devil • Souls are contained in some fashion • Person receives what he bargains for • Person attempts to break the contract • Devil, in one way or another, wins

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