Acceptance of Fate | Coming of Age |
Complexity of Morality | Consequences of Actions |
Cycles of Fate | Descent into Madness |
Divine Intervention | Eternal Love |
Fall From Grace | Fate & Free Will |
Fear of the Future | Forbidden Love |
Fragility of Life | Hero's Journey |
Hubris & Pride | Identity Crisis |
Inevitability of Fate | Inner Demons |
Journey Home | Limits of Knowledge |
Loss & Grief | Loss of Innocence |
Love Triangle | Lovers In Dangerous Times |
Man vs. Machine | Man vs. Nature |
Man vs. Society | Meaning of Success |
Moral Ambiguity | Nature of Beauty |
Nature of Desire | Nature of Evil |
Nature of Memory | Nature of Power |
Nature of Reality | Nature of Time |
Nature of the Hero | Nature vs. Nurture |
Outcasts as Heroes | Overcoming Adversity |
Overcoming Fears | Paradox of Freedom |
Passage of Time | Power Corrupts |
Power of Hope | Power of the Imagination |
Power of the Individual | Predestined Love |
Pursuit of Happiness | Quest For Knowledge |
Quest For Perfection | Quest For Revenge |
Rags to Riches | Reason vs. Emotion |
Rebel Without a Cause | Rebellion Against Fate |
Redemptive Love | Rural vs. City Life |
Sacrifice For Love | Sacrifice For the Greater Good |
Search For Identity | Search For Justice |
Search For Meaning | Search For Truth |
Second Chances | Spiritual Awakening |
Star-crossed Lovers | Strength vs. Weakness |
Struggle Against Temptation | Struggle For Freedom |
Struggle For Survival | Survival of the Fittest |
The Absurdity of Life | The American Dream |
The Antihero | The Call to Adventure |
The Chosen One | The Complexity of Human Relationships |
The Cost of War | The Cursed Object |
The Dark Lord | The Futility of War |
The Ghosts of the Past | The Guardian Angel |
The Human Condition | The Human Psyche |
The Illusion of Control | The Illusion of Reality |
The Meaning of Life | The Mysterious Stranger |
The Outsider | The Power of Words |
The Reluctant Hero | The Road Less Traveled |
The Road to Redemption | The Sands of Time |
The Secret Identity | The Struggle to Belong |
The Underdog | The Unlikely Hero |
The Weight of Responsibility | Time Paradoxes |
Tradition vs. Modernity | Tragic Hero |
Tragic Romance | Twists of Fate |
Unrequited Love | Utopia |
Value of Friendship | Whirlwind Romance |
Overview
Literary themes are the overarching story and deep message and meaning to be found in fiction and related works such as films.
Summary
Selected themes from the list above that have much culture behind them.
