Both Uses of
theme
in
Mansfield Park
- Fanny's beauty of face and figure, Fanny's graces of manner and goodness of heart, were the exhaustless theme.
Chpt 30theme = topic (of conversation)
- Susan, who had an innate taste for the genteel and well-appointed, was eager to hear, and Fanny could not but indulge herself in dwelling on so beloved a theme.
Chpt 43 *
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