ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Short stories often have just one theme, whereas novels usually have multiple themes. The theme of a story is woven all the way through the story, and the characters’ actions, interactions, and motivations all reflect the story’s theme.

Detailed explanation-2: -A story will often have more than one theme, especially if it’s a novel as opposed to a short story. Short stories, due to their length, tend to only have one major theme, while a longer novel has time to elaborate on several themes at once.

Detailed explanation-3: -Theme is what a text implies about life or human nature. A text can have more than one theme. Theme is the “main” idea of a work; in other words, everything in the text should work together to help communicate that idea.

Detailed explanation-4: -A literary theme is the main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores in a novel, short story, or other literary work. The theme of a story can be conveyed using characters, setting, dialogue, plot, or a combination of all of these elements.

Detailed explanation-5: -A story can have as many themes as the reader can identify based on recurring patterns and parallels within the story itself. In looking at ways to separate themes into a hierarchy, we might find it useful to follow the example of a single book.