Title: A Huge List of Common Themes - Literary Devices
Headings: A Huge List of Common Themes
A Huge List of Common Themes
Literature
Movies
Poetry

Content: The themes in movies are often said outright instead of hinted at. Some of the popular themes from movies today include: Abuse of power
Arrogance
Art
Autonomy
Beating the odds
Beauty
Beliefs
Betrayal
Bible
Bravery
Celebration
Chance
Change
Chaos and order
Children
Circle of life
Coming of age
Common Sense
Conservation
Conspiracy
Creation
Crime
Courage
Darkness and lightness
Death
Dedication
Democracy
Desire to escape
Despair
Disillusionment
Economics
Effects from the past
Empowerment
Everlasting love
Evils by humanity
Facing reality
Failure
Family
Fate
Fear
Feminism
Freedom
Friendship
Future
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender rights
God
Good vs Evil
Government
Greed
Growing Up
Happiness
Hate
Heritage
Hero
Heroism
Hope
Humor
Human Nature
Identity
Ideology
Ignorance
Illusion of power
Individuality
Inner peace
Innocence
Isolation
Jealousy
Justice
Kindness
Knowledge
Law
Leadership
Liberty
Life
Logic
Losing hope
Loss of innocence
Lost love
Love and sacrifice
Loyalty
Man vs nature
Man vs man
Man vs self
Man vs machine
Mankind
Maturity
Medicine
Mercy
Morality
Nationalism
Nature
Necessity
Optimism
Neglect
Normality
Opportunity
Optimism
Overcoming
Passion
Patience
Patriotism
Peace
Perfection
Peer pressure
Perseverance
Power and corruption
Prejudice
Pride
Progress
Purpose
Quests
Race
Reality
Redemption
Regret
Religion
Resistance
Reunion
Revolution
Revenge
Sanity
Secrecy
Segregation
Self-awareness
Self-discipline
Simplicity
Society
Social Construct
Solitude
Soul
Suicide
Survival
Technology
Temptation
Time
Tolerance
Travel
Trust
Truth
Universe
Unselfishness
Valor
Vices
Violence
Virtue
War
Waste
Wealth
Wisdom
Willpower
Winning and losing
Xenophobia
Youth
Poetry
Themes in poetry are often quite apparent, but that isn’t always the case. Sometimes the theme doesn’t make itself apparent and is instead up to the reader. Reading a poem aloud often helps with understanding the theme. Here are some examples: Adversity
Aging
america
Angels
Beauty
Birds
Change
Childhood
Comfort after death
Courage
Death
Deception
Destiny
Dying
Depression
Dreams
Dying
Earth
Emotions
Encouraging
Faith
Fame
Fate
Fear
Flowers
Forgiveness
Freedom
Friendship
Funerals
God
Gratitude
Grief
Happiness
Hate
Heartbreak
Heaven
Hope
Humility
Identity
Imagination
Impossibility
Innocence
Inner Peace
Inspiration
Jealousy
Joy
Justice
Knowledge
Life
Life – purpose of
Love
Marriage
Memories
Mountains
Mourning
Music
Nature
New Year
Not Giving Up
Oneness
Opportunity
Overcoming
Pain
Patience
Peace
Prayer
Regret
Revenge
Roses
Sadness
Simplicity
Sin
Soul
Stars
Suffering
Sympathy
Time
Trees
Trust
Unconditional love
War
Work
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