Given the book's fluid and changeable approach to plot and characters, a definitive, critically agreed-upon plot synopsis remains elusive (see Critical response and themes: Difficulties of plot summary below).
Three themes emerged: Difficulty in nursing care, complications such as fistula and infections, and poor hospital administration.
The themes of difficulty in seeking care, reaching care and receiving appropriate emergency care are found throughout healthcare systems in Africa.
"The Limner" — about an itinerant portrait painter — addresses another familiar Barnesian theme: the difficulty of understanding or capturing another person's life, the same theme that animated "Flaubert's Parrot," the author's masterpiece about the author of "Madame Bovary".
It was, so to speak, a mandatory beach book, not for credit in any course, but meant to be the basis for a campus-wide discussion on the theme of "difficulty".
Eliot's themes — the difficulties of communication within and without marriage; the limitations placed on women's accomplishments and expectations by restrictive social structures; the gradual substitution of resignation in the place of aspiration — have proved enduringly inspiring to generations of writers, as well as readers.
The five general themes of difficulties that emerged from the analysis of annotations is discussed in more detail below.
I liked its theme — the difficulties faced by a single woman in a society that is geared to heterosexual coupling and marriage — and its dances, but not the too-cute frontal address with which many of its punch lines were made or the accumulation of passive aggression with which its heroine's story is told.
This method resulted in development of the RED as a rubric that represents all the difficulty themes under a particular category.
As for the repeated references to radio transmissions and coded messages sent over the airwaves, they are apparently meant to signal the world's entry into a new age of technology, and to underscore themes about the difficulties of communication and perception, and the elusive nature of reality.
Leave us quiet in the dark of the coal-shadows, From your pleasures fair and fine!" 3. Aurora Leigh Barrett Browning's epic poem touched on a number of themes, including the difficulties Victorian women faced in a world were men were considered to be the superior sex.
