Themes -- Politics
Politics: suggestive of various ways in which contemporary political and
social issues emerge within the novel.
- Introduction 13 and note ("I have changed no
portion of the story") [1831 only]
- Letter 2.4 and note ("Silent as a Turk")
[1831 only]
- 1.1.1 and note ("Republic")
- 1.1.3 and note ("Schiavi ognor
frementi") [1831 only]
- 1.1.6 and note ("The moral relations of
things") [1831 only]
- 1.1.6 and note ("The structure of
languages, nor the code ... of various states") [1831 only]
- 1.1.7 and note ("Secret stores of
knowledge")
- 1.1.10 and note ("The voice of command")
- 1.3.8 and note ("Been destroyed")
- 1.5.3 and note ("Republican
institutions")
- 1.5.3 and note ("Great monarchies")
- 1.5.3 and note ("Servant in Geneva ...
France and England")
- 1.5.4 and note ("Roman Catholic")
- 1.5.7 and note ("Scope for his spirit
of enterprise") [1831 only]
- 1.7.7 and note ("My confessor has
besieged me")
- 1.7.8 and note ("God raises my
weakness") [1831 only]
- 1.7.9 and note ("I cannot live in this
world of misery")
- 1.7.10 and note ("Heart-rending
eloquence") [1831 only]
- 2.2.5 and note ("There can be no
community")
- 2.3.4 and note ("I greedily devoured
the remnants")
- 2.4.2 and note ("Poverty")
- 2.5.4 and note ("Ruins of Empire")
- 2.5.4 and note ("The hapless fate of
its original inhabitants")
- 2.5.5 and note ("Was man ... base")
- 2.5.5 and note ("I possessed no money
... property")
- 2.5.5 and note ("The strange system of
human society")
- 2.6.1 and note ("His son was bred in the
service of his country")
- 2.6.1 and note ("He became obnoxious to
the government")
- 2.6.3 and note ("Made a slave by the
Turks")
- 2.6.4 and note ("The Italian state
which they inhabited")
- 2.6.5 and note ("A perpetual exile")
- 2.6.6 and note ("Deprived of his
wealth and rank")
- 2.7.3 and note ("I learned ...
thoughts")
- 2.7.3 and note ("Numa")
- 2.7.8 and note ("Are you French")
- 2.8.2 and note ("Seek the old man ... win
him to my party")
- 2.8.3 and note ("The family of De
Lacey")
- 2.8.10 and note ("You must create")
- 2.9.1 and note ("As a right")
- 2.9.2 and note ("The submission of
abject slavery")
- 2.9.3 and note ("Wantonness of power")
- 3.2.1 and note ("The progress of
European colonisation") [1831 only]
- 3.2.3 and note ("The amiable
Falkland")
- 3.4.9 and note ("Wishing for some
mighty revolution")
- 3.5.5 and note ("The peasant")
- 3.5.8 and note ("A part of the
inheritance of Elizabeth") [1831 only]
- 3.5.9 and note ("Jura opposing its dark
side")
- Walton 9 and note ("I cannot lead them
unwillingly to danger")
