Themes and Motifs: Community Alienation

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"The Hound", 163 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Movement›Car | Play›Children playing
Themes and Motifs: Community›Alienation | Community›Ordinary | Home›Homecoming
Absalom, Absalom!, 112 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Perceptual›Watching | Play›Children playing
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Slavery›Etiquette | Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Community›Alienation
Relationships: Familial | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 64 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Denial
Cultural Issues: War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Character›Personality change | Community›Alienation | Morals›Protest | Objects›Bible
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Military analogy
Flags in the Dust, 155 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Despair
Themes and Motifs: Community›Alienation | Philosophical›Nihilism | Psychological›Disembodiment
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Three score and ten | Recurring Episodes›Bayard and the lost generation
Go Down, Moses, 360 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Dilapidation | Olfactory›Old woman smell | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Grief
Cultural Issues: Race›Aunt as term for black woman | Slavery›Biblical analogy | Slavery›Legacy after emancipation
Themes and Motifs: Community›Alienation | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Interracial›Pseudo-family
Sanctuary, 134 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Singing
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Disorder | Community›Alienation
Sanctuary, 221 (Event)
Environment: Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Three o'clock a.m.
Actions: Bodily›Nausea | Physical›Walking
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Nausea
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of innocence | Community›Alienation | Time›Frozen / Static
Sanctuary, 260 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Olfactory›Coffee | Time of Day›Sunrise
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Eating | Bodily›Shaving | Communication›Writing | Domestic›Making coffee | Emotional›Exhaustion
Themes and Motifs: Community›Alienation | Texts›Letters
Relationships: Marital›Divorce
The Hamlet, 124 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Glasses
Themes and Motifs: Art›Painting | Community›Alienation | Futility›Illusion of success or victory
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Alma Tadema
The Hamlet, 268 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Community›Alienation
The Hamlet, 285 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Twilight
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Restoring order | Community›Alienation | Community›Ordinary
The Mansion, 101 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Realization
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Furnish bill | Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping | Law›Incarceration
Themes and Motifs: Community›Alienation
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Mansion, 115 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Hitch-hiking
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Changing customs | Progress›Paving
Themes and Motifs: Community›Alienation
The Mansion, 200 (Event)
Cultural Issues: History›Lost Generation | War›Veterans | War›Wound
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return from war | Community›Alienation
The Mansion, 318 (Event)
Environment: Place›City
Actions: Movement›Walking
Themes and Motifs: Community›Alienation
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics