The Black Prince Themes

The subtitle Bradley Pearson slaps on his narrative in The Black Prince is "A Celebration of Love," so you can be pretty sure that love is going to get some serious attention in the pages that foll...

Hey, if The Black Prince shows us anything, it's that Nick Jonas isn't the only person who gets jealous. Throughout the novel, Bradley Pearson struggles with a number of unpleasant feelings, and je...

Not every English marriage is as outwardly adorable as the one between the babealicious William and Kate. Throughout The Black Prince, we get an eyeful of marriages that are depressing and downrigh...

Our narrator, Bradley Pearson, may claim to be kind of a puritanical guy, but The Black Prince sure does have a lot to say about sex.Over the course of the novel, we watch as Bradley Pearson goes f...

For a novel with an unreliable male narrator who demonstrates quite a lot of sexism and misogyny, The Black Prince has some surprisingly insightful things to say about women and femininity. That pr...

You don't have to be Optimus Prime or a team of Power Rangers to undergo a rad transformation when the situation calls for it. Just ask 58-year-old curmudgeon Bradley Pearson of The Black Prince. W...

Truthiness. You've heard about it: it's when things feel like they're true, even if the actual facts say they aren't.Truthiness is so prevalent in The Black Prince that it's impossible for us to kn...

The Black Prince's Bradley Pearson basically devotes his life to obsessing about things like creativity, literary production, authorial popularity, his writerly ambitions, and what it means to real...