Aesthetics: Genre Conventions Melodrama

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Genre Conventions

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Flags in the Dust, 10 (Event)

Actions: Verbal›Exaggeration | Verbal›Repetition | Verbal›Storytelling

Cultural Issues: War›Civil War | War›Death

Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Communal mythology

Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Melodrama

Flags in the Dust, 123 (Event)

Cultural Issues: War›Atrocity | War›World War I

Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Melodrama

The Mansion, 227 (Event)

Cultural Issues: Education›Graduation

Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Melodrama

The Sound and the Fury, 106 (Event)

Environment: Olfactory›Flowers | Place›Sawmill

Actions: Communication›Letter | Interaction, Private›Seducing | Mental›Imagining | Moral›Scheming | Physical›Meddling | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Throwing downstairs

Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›British nobility | Class›Elite | Clothes›Silk | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Education›Divinity school | Food›Pumpkin pie | Gender›Bitch | Gender›Lady | Gender›Maternal impulse | Gender›Southern woman | History›Confederacy / Confederate States of America / C.S.A. | Race›Black family working for white | Race›Subservient / Obsequious to whites | Region›The South | Slavery›Galley slave

Themes and Motifs: Objects›Flower orchid | Objects›Handkerchief | Objects›Shotgun | Recurring Tropes›Sole owner and proprietor | Recurring Tropes›Twilight | Story-telling›Communal mythology

Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Interracial›Master-servant | Social›Homoerotic