All 4 Uses of
theme
in
Crime and Punishment
- Of course, it was all ordinary youthful talk and thought, such as he had often heard before in different forms and on different themes.†
Chpt 1.6
- Noticing stealthily that Avdotya Romanovna was following his words with close attention, Zossimov allowed himself to enlarge on this theme.†
Chpt 3.1
- How many scenes, how many amorous episodes he had imagined on this seductive and playful theme, when his work was over!†
Chpt 4.3 *
- But the "humane" Andrey Semyonovitch ascribed Pyotr Petrovitch's ill-humour to his recent breach with Dounia and he was burning with impatience to discourse on that theme.†
Chpt 5.1
Definition:
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(theme as in: theme of the novel) a basic idea that underlies what is being said or done -- especially in a literary or artistic work