In the Time of the Butterflies Themes

Well, to start off with, In the Time of the Butterflies is all about a group of sisters: Patria, Dedé, Minerva, and Mate Mirabal. The girls are very different: Patria is religious, Dedé practical...

In the Time of the Butterflies reveals the crazy amounts of violence that pervaded public and private life if you happened to live in the Dominican Republic under President Trujillo. This evil dude...

The term "martyr" is a key word in the novel In the Time of the Butterflies—this novel could have easily been called In The Time of the Martyrflies (but wow, that's an awkward-sounding title). Th...

It's easy to be courageous when your biggest foe is, say, the vice principal or your overbearing boss. But when your foe is literally the most terrifying dictator in the hemisphere, you better have...

Wilting violets the Mirabal sisters are not. The protagonists of In the Time of the Butterflies are an all-female super-heroine band. But just because they're incredible justice fighters doesn't me...

In the Time of the Butterflies jumps between the present (a.k.a. 1994) and the past, which spans from 1938 to its main characters' deaths in 1960. Only one character—the surviving sister Dedé â€...

The central family in In the Time of the Butterflies is a farming family that has recently come into money. This means they must behave in new ways in order to fit into their new class. Education,...

You might not expect a novel about a group of communist revolutionaries to have all that much to do with religion, but In the Time of the Butterflies finds a way to marry the Catholic Church and th...

The main events of In the Time of the Butterflies all revolve around the imbalance of power in the island nation of the Dominican Republic under President Rafael Trujillo. One man, "the goat" himse...

Freedom dresses up in many different costumes in In the Time of the Butterflies. It can be a teenaged girl trying to escape from her family's control over her life; it can be a prisoner on a hunger...