All 11 Uses of
theme
in
Bleak House
- This discourse led to a great deal more on the same theme, and indeed it lasted us all day, and we talked of scarcely anything else.†
Chpt 4-6
- Their courtly politeness to each other at the hotels where they tarry is the theme of general admiration.†
Chpt 10-12
- "Now, my friends," proceeds Mr. Chadband, "since I am upon this theme—"†
Chpt 19-21 *
- "Now, my friends," says Chadband, "since I am upon this theme, and in my lowly path improving it—"†
Chpt 19-21
- Rick and I have only had a friendly difference, which we must state to you, for you are the theme.†
Chpt 22-24
- As to Volumnia, she is handed down the great staircase by Sir Leicester, as eloquent upon the theme as if there were a general rising in the north of England to obtain her rouge-pot and pearl necklace.†
Chpt 28-30
- As I saw she would go on, I thought it best to try to be serviceable to her by meeting the theme rather than avoiding it.†
Chpt 34-36
- When we were settled at home again, Ada and I had many conversations with my guardian of which Richard was the theme.†
Chpt 43-45
- A remarkable feature of the theme is that it is found to be so inspiring that several people come out upon it who never came out before—positively say things!†
Chpt 58-60
- After I had explained the pattern to him and all the great effects that were to come out by and by, I thought I would go back to our last theme.†
Chpt 58-60
- The first until we meet to-morrow, the second as a farewell to this theme between us for ever.†
Chpt 61-63
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