Keywords

Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Term Parent Description
2331 Alienation Community
4447 Alienation from nature Exile
3010 Alligators Animals
3448 Aloneness Absence/Loss

As in the "aloneness" Addie Bundren seeks to have violated in As I Lay Dying. EKP

4747 Ambiguous circumstances Death
538 Ambitious Character
5519 Amoral Character
2236 Anchovies Objects
4741 And an animal Determinism
3060 And caste Naming
4950 And change Time
5377 And civilization Art
4428 And inheritance Death
3193 And monuments Past
2082 Animal bear Death
2073 Animal Dog Death
2910 Animal horse Death
4535 Animal mule Death
364 Animals (First level term)
4847 Anthropological Texts
2749 Anticipation Time
3099 Anticipation of death Death
1615 Antlers Objects
2379 Ants Animals
3455 Anxiety about|Resistance to change Past
4216 Apotheosis Recurring Tropes
4209 Apparition Recurring Tropes
1090 Appearance (First level term)
631 Appearance-plain Body
3738 Apple tree Objects
3145 Arm Body
1667 Arrival Arrivals/Departures
2503 Arrival in Yoknapatawpha Arrivals/Departures
362 Arrivals/Departures (First level term)
363 Art (First level term)
2022 Artist Character
3444 Artistic creation Art
5231 As character Appearance
3059 As explanatory Past
3103 As motive Money
4513 As symbol Money

I added this term for when money is representative of something, like Chick's shame in Intruder. LW

5529 As tribute Naming
2865 Assertive Character
4831 Attacked Home
2460 Attempt to find substitute Absence/Loss
1520 Audience response Story-telling
3312 Awareness of time Time
1247 Ax Objects
3112 Baby bottle Objects
1571 Bad conduct Values
4286 Balance Chaos/Order
3480 Baldness Appearance
1825 Ballot Box Objects
2359 Barbarism Character
739 Bargainer Character
1823 Basket Objects
3263 Bats Animals
734 Bear Animals
2322 Beautiful/handsome Appearance
3994 Beavers Animals
3276 Bed Objects
3166 Being in time Time

Added to mark those moments when Quentin Compson explicitly refers to being "in" time -- subject to it, existing within it and unable to stop or evade its progression. This is opposite of course to those moments when he is "outside" of time and all that entails. JBP

3294 Being late / tardiness Time
3293 Being on time / punctuality Time
3167 Being outside of time Time
1982 Belatedness Recurring Tropes
4374 Belonging Home
3850 Beyond Recurring Tropes

I added this keyword to mark places where a character or text contemplates or imagines exceeding ordinary or usual boundaries. Specifically, this was added for when Quentin starts imagining "a hell beyond that" for him and Caddy. It can be used when "beyond" or a similar construction is used in figurative ways. JBP

1388 Bible Objects
4818 Bible Texts
3674 Bill Money
1393 Birds Animals
3011 Bison Animals
3880 Blackguard Character
3416 Blame Absence/Loss
680 Blood Body
4509 Bluejays Animals
2070 Boat Objects
365 Body (First level term)
5491 Bomb-sight Objects
2911 Bones Death
3457 Bookishness Character
2452 Books Objects
3039 Booksatchel Objects
2469 Bottle Objects
2905 Bow and arrow Objects
3563 Bowels Body
3138 Bowl Objects
2615 Brain / mind Body
4951 Brand name Naming
941 Brass Objects
4259 Bravado Character
3668 Bravery Character
3998 Breast Body
3177 Bricks Objects
4733 Briefcase Objects
3364 Broken glass Objects
4538 Broom Objects
1260 Bugs Animals
2467 Bumble-bee Animals

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