A literary theme is the main idea or underlying meaning that an author explores in a novel, short story, or other literary work. A story's theme can be conveyed through characters, setting, dialogue, plot, or a combination of all of these. This is the point the author tries to make throughout the work. This goes beyond the subject of love, for example, to clarify the author's exact statement about love.
12 common themes
1. Power
2. Family
3. Identity
4. Loneliness
5. Friendship
6. Free will vs. Fate
7. Hope
8. Love
9. War
10. Childhood
11. Coming of age
12. Environment and climate change
We all feel lonely from time to time. Feelings of loneliness are personal, so everyone's experience of loneliness will be different.
