Themes Of Louisa May Alcott

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Themes often help to create a whole story line. Writers

tend to use the same themes in their writing. During their careers

the themes they use may change due to how the writers have

changed. Some writers use the same themes in all of their writing,

but others tend to use many different themes. In her writing,

Louisa May Alcott touched upon various different themes.

The early writings of Louisa May Alcott were rarely

recognized. In the first phase of her writing, 1840’s-1860’s, she

wrote some short stories. Most of them featured a mysterious,

vengeful woman bent on manipulation and destruction (Schafer 1).

Common themes that Louisa often used included self-sacrifice,

duty, charity, self-reliance, and patients. She also touched the

surfaces of jealousies, fears and frivolities (Durbin 1). A lot of the

stories Louisa wrote early on she never really put her name too.

She also wrote children’s stories and was mostly know for these.

“Flower Fables, the first volume that she put her name on, were

stories and poems that were moral fables, rather windy and

obvious but emotionally revealing” (Saxton 192). Most of

Louisa’s early works touched upon these themes along with

domestic life in the nineteenth-century and maturing adolescent.

These themes are what Louisa’s early writings were based

around.

In the early writings the themes used tend to come from

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some point of Louisa’s. “Louisa’s world works with clocklike

moral regularity” (Saxton 4). With Louisa’s father being very

critical of her work, she tried her hardest to write to his approval.

She used her own life experiences for her writing. She took what

she knew and what she likes and used them to write, which showed

in the themes. Her stori...