Themes_Of_Louisa_May_Alcott

Themes Of Louisa May Alcott 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 themes, louisa, writing, women, louisa’s, writings, works, stories, little, later, early, wrote, saxton, life, series, different, covered, book, writers, touched, write, work, upon, tend, story, schafer, put, moral, feelings, experiences, adult, about, woman’s, woman, values