While these two lists clearly reflect the theoretical interests of the investigators who created them, a closer look reveals a number of shared themes.

Comparative mythology is the comparison of myths from different cultures in an attempt to identify shared themes and characteristics.

While varied, the stories explore the shared themes of moral ambiguity, subversion and law breaking.

For all the differences, there are certain shared themes.

Both novels tell three separate stories linked by shared themes and motifs.

They were named by the readers in hindsight due to their shared themes.

Her works reflected the shared themes and motifs of the Harlem Renaissance.

Homosexuality and the law is the shared theme of the two documentaries opening on a single bill today at Film Forum 1.

In the nightclubs and restaurants, much of the music has a shared theme: love, home, fear of forgetting.

In spite of the shared general theme, the two plays are distinctly different works.