Here, you find the themes of Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows.

1. Topic: Thematic concern in Harry Potter and
Deathly Hallows
Name: Rasila Jambucha
Semester: 4
Paper: 13 The New Literatures
Roll no: 22
Year: 2013-2015
Submitted to: Smt. S.B.Gardi,
Department of English
M.K.Bhavnagar University.

3. love
Sacrifice
Perseverance power
Choice
Death Good vs. Evil
Minor Theme

4. The Difficulty of loving the Dead
• Doubts Harry feels
-Dumbledore really loved him?
( when he learns Dumbledore had a mother and sister
buried in the same place as Harry’s parents)

5. Importance of second chance
• Once Snape was a death eaters
- earlier = working for Voldemort
- but then, helping Dumbledore in his mission
(when he knows, Voldemort kills Lily)
• Ron character
- earlier = help Harry
- then, when things get too tough he give up because of
some misunderstanding or jealousy. i.e. wearing locate
horcrux
- then he realizes his mistake and come back again

6. Keeping faith with the Dead
• Believing in Dumbledore’s quest after he is dead is
not easy for Harry
• Snape: loyal follower of Dumbledore but also he
was loyal to Lily Potter
- keeping faith with the women he loved after her
death

7. • Dobby the house-elf gets himself killed saving
Harry and his friend
- and dies in Harry’s arms
• the process of burying Dobby helps put Harry
into a better frame of mind about his mission
- then Harry reminds that, he made a promise to
his dead friend that he needs to honor

8. love
• Tom Riddle
- grew without the unconditional love and care
- in early life because of lack of love = find sociopathic
qualities
- he also murders his father and grandparents and uses
their death to create horcrux

9. • Snape loves Lily
- Voldemort kills Lily
( if he didn’t kill her, then he still have had a loyal
servant and Harry might have been successfully killed long
ago)
• Harry has friend
(they believe in him and his mission)
• Voldemort has followers
(they have fear that he kill him)

10. Death
• To create a horcrux is through the murder of another
• Voldemort greatest fear: killing others to save his life
• James and Lily Potter surrender to death to save their
son
• Harry face death bravely
(when at the end Voldemort invite him to meet in the
forest and he look ‘golden snitch’
“ I open at the close”
• He realizes that can only be
opened as he is facing his death

11. • Using Resurrection stone :
- recalls his loved ones temporarily
from death
- gains courage to face Voldemort
and his own death
• Dumbledore -
‘'Do not pity the dead Harry, pity the living.”

12. Good vs. Evil
• Voldemort and Death Eaters represent the “Evil”
• Harry and his friend represent the “good”
• Snape character (complex)

13. Sacrifice
• Lily’s sacrifice herself for Harry
• Harry give up his life to save the world and others

14. choice
• After Dumbledore’s death he’s lost the guiding light and
got chance to make his own decision
• If he might take wrong decision, then many people
affected by his decision
• Voldemort, at the end , is given a chance at redemption
but he refuse
• Dumbledore -
“ It is our choices Harry, that show us who we truly are,
far more than our abilities”.

15. perseverance
• Harry, Ron and Hermione continuously try and figure out
how to destroy Voldemort
• All of the intertwining stories that emerges here are
about keeping faith and staying true to a mission
• Perseverance is the name of the game, and all of our
character play it

16. power
• Voldemort’s thirst for power takes him on a
torturing and murdering spree.

17. Work citation
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/potter7/themes
.html
from this site I found three major themes
http://www.shmoop.com/harry-potter-7-
deathly-hallows/themes.html
from this site I found other themes