What is a common theme or issue between the three passages: Frankenstein, Bleak House, and Miss Brill?

whatever is after like is what is being compared they are comparing bumping into you like they are scared to catch germs you have and to you being contagious

main idea: it is important to prepare today for the needs of tomorrow.

the grasshopper was dying due to hunger, and this was because he didn't prepare for the winter.

the ants told the grasshopper, "if you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter."

the ants were spending a fine winter's day drying grain collected in the summertime.