Talk:Theme (literature)

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Contents 1 Question about the nature of 'Theme' 2 Changes 3 Theme and Subject are NOT the same 4 Useless statements

[edit] Question about the nature of 'Theme'

Hence, 'Good and Evil' is not a theme, but 'Good cannot survive without evil' is one. I'm fairly sure that's the correct idea of theme, thus making most of the examples given here, well, wrong. Especially the ones in bold about To Kill a Mockingbird- I'm going to take those out. Correct me if I'm wrong (as I'm sure you will). Wtstar 02:54, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Changes

Ok, I added a section with examples of themes in literature. I am going to remove the list of themes since most are not valid themes. I will place it on this page for now. Please discuss if you find this change unacceptable. Applejuicefool 16:02, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Probably could stand to be split off to a separate page: List of Themes/Motifs in Literature. (a metalist 0:) 13:21, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Theme and Subject are NOT the same

Somehow the article now reads "A theme is the same as the subject of a work." I think a 'not' got left out. I'm putting it back in. Applejuicefool 20:23, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Useless statements

There where quite a few useless paragraphs that where distracting from the point. What was the point about Dr.Seuss. 64.53.219.210 21:42, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

The theme is also the lesson learned not only by the character but by the reader

While the theme can be a lesson learned by the character and the reader, in some cases only the reader learns it, namely in the case of a static, or unchanging, character. Arknascar44 21:43, 10 May 2007 (UTC)