Evangeline Themes

The rockers from Nazareth were right, y'all: "Love Hurts". Just ask Evangeline and Gabriel. One minute, you're about to embark on a lifetime of wedded bliss, and then the next, you're viciously tor...

Let's try this, Shmoopers. Imagine you keep your home, your family, your beloved, and your favorite cow all in the same box. (It would have to be a big box, but let's not get hung up on technicalit...

We'd forgive you if, at some point in reading "Evangeline," you put down the poem and shouted "Stop living in the past!" (Really, we're forgiving like that.) Still, that's not a totally fair accusa...

If religion is your thing, then Shmoopers you've come to the right poem. "Evangeline" is a story about French Catholic colonists, so it's only natural that their religion plays a central role in th...

At first, it may seem odd to associate "Evangeline" with the theme of justice. After all, what's just about having your house snatched out from underneath you and never getting to spend a single da...