A leitmotif of the novel is the Christian notion of Providence, penitence and redemption.

Sheri S. Tepper's The Gate to Women's Country contained a similar idea, with a play named Iphigenia at Ilium running through the novel as a leitmotif.

The leitmotif of the novel, which is also expressed in the title, is Sammy's running.

Ogee is also a mathematical term, meaning an inflection point ; the aesthetic appeal of the ogee curve forms part of the leitmotif of the Booker-prize winning novel The Line of Beauty.

The role of keys in the novel acts as a leitmotif.

The three Geste brothers of Brandon Abbas are used as a metaphor for the British upper class values of a time gone by, and " the decent thing to do " is, in fact, the leitmotif of the novel.

In the story's present, Stavia prepares for her role as Iphigenia in Marthatown's annual performance of Iphigenia at Ilium, a reworking of the Greek tragedy The Trojan Women that weaves through the novel as a leitmotif.

" In the 1935 novel Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder, the character Mr. Edwards sings the song as his trademark ; accordingly, the Little House on the Prairie television series from the 1970s and 1980s uses the song as a leitmotif for the character.

The ' Siegfried ' leitmotif from Act III of Wagner's opera, the third of his ' Ring ' cycle ; the theme is broader and more richly orchestrated than its earlier appearances ( see above ), suggesting the emergence of Siegfried's heroic character Richard Wagner is the earliest composer most specifically associated with the concept of leitmotif.

The song " Solitude " was featured as the leitmotif of main character, Zombie, in the 1991 motion picture Zombie ja Kummitusjuna ( Zombie and The Ghost Train ) by Finnish director Mika Kaurismäki.

Each character in the story has a particular instrument and a musical theme, or leitmotif:

As with most composers who have used this method, each leitmotif is used in a much more subtle manner than being directly attached to a character or object.

But soon, after a few chords in the woodwinds reminiscent of the opening of Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream overture, we hear the leitmotif that represents the character of the storyteller herself, Scheherazade, his wife, who eventually succeeds at appeasing him with her stories.

Such mannerisms would be less worthy of remark, were it not that in Great Expectations, as in no other of Dickens' novels, hands serve as a leitmotif of plot and theme -- a kind of unifying symbol or natural metaphor for the book's complex of human interrelationships and the values and attitudes that motivate them.

Puccini used three of these in the opera, including the national anthem ( heard during the appearance of the Empero Altoum ) and, most memorably, the folk melody " Mo-li-hua " (" Jasmine Flower ") which is first heard sung by the children's chorus after the invocation to the moon in Act I, and becomes a sort of ' leitmotif ' for the princess throughout the opera.

" Princess Leia's Theme " is represented by the musical leitmotif in the Star Wars saga.

Berlioz not only influenced Wagner through his orchestration and breaking of conventional forms, but also in his use of the idée fixe in the Symphonie fantastique which foreshadows the leitmotif.

4 ( 1899 ), a programmatic work for string sextet that develops several distinctive " leitmotif "- like themes, each one eclipsing and subordinating the last.

In his score Tiomkin quotes the famous Merry Widow Waltz of Franz Lehár, often in somewhat distorted forms, as a leitmotif for Uncle Charlie and his serial murders.

The King in Yellow is a collection of tales of the supernatural by Robert W. Chambers, named after a fictional play with the same title that recurs as a leitmotif through some of its stories and first published by F. Tennyson Neely in 1895.

Circularity is the leitmotif, from the rotunda to the inlaid design of the terrazzo floors.

A leitmotif (), sometimes written leit-motif, is a musical term ( though occasionally used in theatre or literature ), referring to a recurring theme, associated with a particular person, place, or idea.

Such usages typically obscure the crucial aspect of a leitmotif, as opposed to the plain musical motif or theme-that it is transformable and recurs in different guises throughout the piece in which it occurs.

Wagner had raised the issue of how music could best unite disparate elements of the plot of a music drama in his essay Opera and Drama ( 1851 ); the leitmotif technique corresponds to this ideal.

The leitmotif associated with Salome herself in Richard Strauss's opera Salome ( opera ) | Salome.

The critic Theodor W. Adorno, in his book In Search of Wagner ( written in the 1930s ), expresses the opinion that the entire concept of the leitmotif is flawed.

The " leitmotif " is also present in Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

One of their goals in Argentina is to visit the Iguazu waterfalls, which serves as a leitmotif in the movie.

* Constantinople provides the setting of much of the action in Umberto Eco's 2000 novel Baudolino.

Severin also provides evidence in his book that another publicised case of a real-life marooned Miskito Central American man named only as Will may have caught Defoe's attention, inspiring the depiction of Man Friday in his novel.

The novel provides motivation and backstory to Snake and Hauk — both disillusioned war veterans — deepening their relationship that was only hinted at it in the film.

An almost literal use of the phrase appears in popular fiction within H. G. Wells ' 1933 novel The Shape of Things to Come, where the protagonist finds a manuscript written in shorthand that provides a key to understanding additional scattered material that is sketched out in both longhand and on typewriter.

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, in his 1916 novel The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ( filmed in 1921 and in 1962 ), provides an early example of this interpretation, writing " The horseman on the white horse was clad in a showy and barbarous attire.

The song provides a major organizational motif for the novel.

* 1902: Although not explicitly cited, the Congo River provides the setting for Joseph Conrad's 1902 novel Heart of Darkness.

The novel covers the years 1945 to 1955, and also provides the back story of Vito Corleone from early childhood to adulthood.

The original novelette " Ender's Game " provides a small snapshot of Ender's experiences in Battle School and Command School ; the full-length novel encompasses more of Ender's life before, during, and after the war, and also contains some chapters describing the political exploits of his older siblings back on Earth.

Margaret Landon's novel Anna and the King of Siam ( 1944 ) provides a fictionalised look at Anna Leonowens's years at the royal court, developing the abolitionist theme that resonated with her American readership.

While the book provides the courtship as a backstory, the real novel begins upon his retirement.

Charles Dickens provides a very graphical depiction of the death of the shopkeeper Mr. Krook by spontaneous combustion in his novel Bleak House ( 1852 ).

Thus it provides an intense, detailed exploration of its subject, providing to some degree both the concentrated focus of the short story and the broad scope of the novel.

James Sallis praised Lust Lizard, saying that Moore's novel provides " all the best comic writing, something beyond jokes, caricature, spinning plates and crazy-tilt towers, something intangible that vanishes whenever we try to look directly at it: some sense, perhaps, that we're still able to rescue from the ever-increasing detritus of our culture a decent, simple humanity.

Kem Nunn's novel, Tijuana Straits, provides insight into the culture of the border and surfing in Imperial Beach and the Tijuana River Valley, and the environmental problems that impact residents of Tijuana, Imperial Beach and Coronado.

The 2005 movie Capote, directed by Bennett Miller, is also about the author Truman Capote, and provides great insight into Mr. Capote, his writing of the novel, and the crimes in Holcomb.

Wetherby provides the setting for the novel Oldbury ( 1869 ) by Annie Keary.

The Virgin New Adventures novel Lungbarrow by Marc Platt provides some additional history on the Hand during the early years of its creation on Gallifrey.

* Julio Cortázar provides a ( presumably false ) history of nail cutters in his novel Hopscotch:

He also used the title for a novel which he provides for download on his website.

The novel The Drowner by Robert Drewe provides a fictionalised account of O ' Connor and the building of the pipeline.

Ishmael provides little about his personal background before his decision at the beginning of the novel to journey to Nantucket, Massachusetts to enlist as a sailor on a whaler.

An adventure novel provides an illustration of the concept.

In these countries, the mere use of a computer is sufficient to make a business method patentable even if the computer is not being used in a novel or inventive way and only the underlying business method provides the patentable features.