The Man-Moth Themes
Perseverance
The titular hero of "The Man-Moth" will continue to pursue his dreams, no matter how much that climb to the hole in the sky may make him wig out like Scooby Doo and his buddies when they see a ghos...
Fear
Elizabeth Bishop takes a no-bones-about-it approach to the fear in "The Man-Moth." She doesn't hide the fear under metaphors, she just comes right out and tells us—multiple times—that the Man-M...
Identity
Sometimes we base our identities on things that really have very little to do with who we are. We can do this to ourselves, but more often than not it's really the culture that we live in that call...
Ambition
In "The Man-Moth," the title character wants something, and he seems to understand what it takes to get it. He has taken his weaknesses into account, and he has made sure that they will not get in...