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  2. LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The Beast in the Jungle, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.

  3. The Beast in the Jungle is a 1903 novella by Henry James, first published as part of the collection The Better Sort. Almost universally considered one of James' finest short narratives , this story treats appropriately universal themes: loneliness, fate, love and death.

    • Henry James
    • 1903
  4. How are the themes of uncanny and narcissism portrayed in Henry James's The Beast in the Jungle?

    • Isolation
    • Love
    • Fear

    John Marcher's special fate marks him as set apart from other people. This special, unknown fate makes him different from those in the social circle in which he drifts. He doesn't share his unique identity with others for fear they think him "queer." Keeping his secret isolates him and makes him feel "abominably alone" until he shares it with May B...

    May Bartram's first instinct is to ask if John Marcher's fate could possibly be to fall in love. Marcher tosses the idea aside, claiming he has already been in love, or at least a relationship he has "taken for it." Still he admits it was not "such a cataclysm" nor so "overwhelming" as to fit his idea of the sudden, inevitable strike of destiny he ...

    For all the talk of fear and the threat of the beast, John Marcher doesn't seem very frightened by it. Before May Bartramagrees to watch with Marcher for his fate, she asks him three times if he is afraid. He claims he doesn't know and suggests she watch him for any signs of fear. It is a normal response to fear a predator, and in the coming years,...

  5. The “beast” emerged when she walked up to him, expecting him to guess his fate, and he ignored her hints. Marcher tries to feel the full weight of his pain now, but he can’t do so, which makes him realize how much damage he’s done to himself by repressing his emotions.

  6. Within ‘The Beast in the Jungle’, Henry James approaches a common theme of loneliness, but in a new way. John Marcher begins the novella surrounded by people, and gains May Bartram as a companion early on.

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