Themes in Essays

Themes in EssaysAn essay can be thought of as a piece of work where the author uses all his or her talents to extract certain characteristics of things to create a coherent whole, a theme, a link between unrelated topics. The use of imagination, descriptive skill, spatial relationships, analogy, the analogy to known things, etc.What is to be considered the theme? Well, that is a question that needs to be answered by the author, since the themes have different interpretations. Some writers base their themes on personal experiences, some authors base their themes on relationships or a special moment in history, others base their themes on stories and songs and so on. There are also those who base their themes on some of the disciplines: philosophy, literature, psychology, or whatever else happens to interest them.A theme has to be big canvas to draw out the sense of a particular subject, one that will fit the writer's creativity. This makes it difficult to fit the different thoughts in such a big canvas. It is not a simple matter to generate such a theme, to make it convey a message, but an idea that is always so fundamental to have in mind.One does not necessarily create a poem, a novel, or a short story just because one has a series of related ideas and concepts in mind, though one can do this as well. But if one has a theme that expresses his or her insights into life, a set of ideas in common, then one can look for ways to make a link between such a concept and its different realizations. One can find this link when he or she is writing an essay. An essay can be defined as the establishment of a theme, a thread through all the ideas that compose the topic of a particular work.However, it is not enough to simply set up a theme without any linking. Any good essay should contain some linking, it should be connected in some way to other themes, making the whole essay more meaningful.One way to connect the works is by putting a theme into one's essay. For example, if a novelist wants to write about an imaginary land called 'The Calamity', he may tie up the island 'The Amethyst Island' with the death of its king, then build up a mythical background to the land in the course of his piece.If a painter wants to create a picture that has a connection to the idea of a journey, the same could be applied to a writer, such as the scientist who had his own theory about 'The Traveling Pigeons'. He could tie up this theory to a small sub-theme, creating a new idea for a new theme.The importance of linking in an essay cannot be underestimated. In fact, this is the most important aspect of an essay in a sentence, since it is the key to link the different concepts to one another and this is where the author himself comes in, making the creation of a link more understandable and engaging.