Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order Creating order

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"Delta Autumn", 271 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Wilderness
Actions: Movement›Boat | Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›As loss
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creating order | Time›Travel back in time
"Race at Morning", 302 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Horse
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Nursing
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Animals›Sentience | Chaos/Order›Creating order
"Retreat", 27 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creating order | Values›Good conduct
"Smoke", 33 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creating order
Absalom, Absalom!, 4 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Auditory›Silence | Domestic Space›Garden | Natural›Dirt / Earth | Place›Plantation
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Mental›Imagining | Mental›Visualize | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Building | Physical›Clearing land | Physical›Dragging | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: History›Plantation culture | Progress›Clearing the land | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Slavery›Imported | Slavery›Labor | Violence
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creating order | Chaos/Order›Creation | Chaos/Order›Order | Naming›Place name | Objects›Cards | Objects›Table | Past›As explanatory | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Design
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Genesis | Allusion, Biblical›God / Jehovah | Allusion, Biblical›Old Testament | Description›Landscape | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Personification | Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Abundance or flow of words | Language›Grandiloquence | Style›Long sentence | Style›Neologism | Style›Numerous adjectives | Symbolism›Hamsa | Typography/Orthography›Italics
As I Lay Dying, 82 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Carpentry
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creating order
Aesthetics: Description›Animate/Inanimate | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Style›List
Go Down, Moses, 220 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Pony | Chaos/Order›Creating order | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Morals›Loyalty
Requiem for a Nun, 31 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Building | Work›Architect | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creating order
Requiem for a Nun, 31 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Wilderness
Actions: Mental›Envisioning
Cultural Issues: Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creating order | Time›Future
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Temporal projection | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Requiem for a Nun, 38 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Unseen voice | Public›Court | Public›Courtroom | Time of Day›Five o'clock p.m. | Time of Year›November
Actions: Legal›Pronouncing sentence | Verbal›Announcing | Verbal›Praying
Cultural Issues: Law›Trial
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creating order | Death›Death sentence | Death›Murder
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Narrative›Theatrical effect | Symbolism›Theatrical
Requiem for a Nun, 85 (Event)
Environment: Natural›River
Actions: Movement›Boat
Cultural Issues: Government›State capital | Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Chaos/Order›Creating order
Requiem for a Nun, 85 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Building
Cultural Issues: Government›State capital | Progress›Building structure
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creating order
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Claiborne, William C. C. | Allusion, Historical›DeFrance, Abraham | Allusion, Historical›Hinds, General Thomas | Allusion, Historical›Jefferson, Thomas
Requiem for a Nun, 86 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Government›State laws and regulations
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creating order
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
The Hamlet, 126 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Education›Rural school
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creating order
The Hamlet, 247 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creating order
The Hamlet, 331 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Pursuit
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Chaos | Chaos/Order›Creating order
The Hamlet, 362 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Law›Legal ownership | Law›Trial
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creating order | Futility›Nothing to do
Aesthetics: Language›Legal definitions
The Mansion, 303 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Devastation | Natural›Hills | Public›Highway
Actions: Movement›Truck | Verbal›Shouting
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creating order | Chaos/Order›Disorder
The Sound and the Fury, 320 (Event)
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Emotional›Anguish | Emotional›Crying | Perceptual›Observing | Perceptual›Passing from sight | Verbal›Threat | Violent›Hitting
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Chaos/Order›Creating order | Chaos/Order›Disorder | Chaos/Order›Out of ordered place | Objects›Windows | Psychological›Terror | Recurring Tropes›Confederate monument | Recurring Tropes›Door