Actions: Legal Marriage
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Arraign
- Arrest
- Bailing out
- Bonding
- Calling police
- Charge/accuse
- Claim
- Confession
- Counsel
- Defending
- Deliberating
- Discharging jury
- Dismissing a case
- Divorce
- Exhumation order
- Handcuffing
- Hearing
- Locking up
- Obstructing justice / law enforcement officer
- Pardon
- Pronouncing sentence
- Recess
- Record keeping
- Release of prisoner
- Remarriage
- Standing guard
- Summation
- Testifying
- Trial
- Warrant
- Will
Tagged Events
Actions: Legal›Marriage | Mental›Remembering | Verbal›Explaining
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Cultural Issues: Economy›Savings | Health and Illness›Fever | Identity, Cultural›Rural
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha | Objects›Flower orchid
Aesthetics: Language›Spanish | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Dying | Emotional›Love | Legal›Marriage | Mental›Speculation | Physical›Burial | Verbal›Storytelling
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Environment: Place›Official office
Actions: Communication›Writing | Interaction, Social›Concealment | Legal›Marriage | Mental›Deduction | Moral›Deception | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Verbal›Accusatory
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›Gentility | Class›Respectability | Gender›Gentleman | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Law›Legal document | Law›Wedding license
Themes and Motifs: Community›Opinion | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Not knowing person or thing's name | Objects›Wedding license | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Marital›Social respectability | Social›Adversarial | Social›Snobbery
Environment: Public›Church | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›June | Weather›Rain
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics | Past›Past vs present
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-niece | Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Wedding
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Rain | Narrative›Repetition
Environment: Public›Courtroom | Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Bodily›Chewing | Economic›Buying | Emotional›Betrayal | Emotional›Frustration | Legal›Divorce | Legal›Marriage
Cultural Issues: Gender›And marriage | Gender›Chauvinism / Misogyny | Gender›Femininity | Gender›Women | Law›Justice of the Peace | Ritual›Wedding | Sexuality›Female
Relationships: Marital›Civil marriage | Marital›Divorce | Marital›Shotgun marriage | Marital›Wedding
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Narrative›Commentary | Narrative›Parentheses | Tone›Sarcastic
Environment: Atmospheric›Torch-light | Place›Tavern | Public›Church | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Interaction, Social›Marriage | Legal›Marriage
Cultural Issues: Class›Lower class / riff-raff / canaille | Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Ritual›Wedding | Slavery
Aesthetics: Description›Tableau | Figures of Speech›Fire
Actions: Communication›Writing | Legal›Marriage
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Environment: Atmospheric›Familiar | Domestic Space›House | Place›Jefferson | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Day›Sunday | Time of Day›Sunday morning | Time of Year›June | Time of Year›September
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Economic›Purchase | Legal›Marriage | Movement›Riding | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Economy›Property | Gender›And marriage | Gender›Widow | Group Mentality›Communal story | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Law›Legal ownership | Law›Property | Ritual›Wedding | Violence›Retribution
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | Community›Local legends | Death›Future | Death›Spousal | Determinism›Fated | Home›New home | Meaning›Mystery | Meaning›Paternity | Memory›Collective memory | Past›Past in present | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Story-telling›Communal mythology | Time›Duration of time | Time›Long passage of time | Time›Past | Values›Justice
Relationships: Familial›Conflict | Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Father-son | Familial›Parents-children | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Genesis | Figures of Speech›Breath | Narrative›Background | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Origin | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Summary
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Substitute
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Marital›Re-marriage
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Legal›Marriage | Work›Building structure
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Law›Inheritance | Race›Miscegenation
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Farming | Class›Town v. country/farm
Relationships: Familial›Genealogy | Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Land-Use›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Money›Inheritance
Relationships: Sexual›Inappropriate
Cultural Issues: Politics›Voting | Slavery›Biblical analogy
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Actions: Legal›Marriage | Mental›Remembering | Moral›Purification
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›America vs Europe
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha | Past›Discovering it
Relationships: Romantic›Love at first sight
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Second-person directed | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Cultural Issues: Government›Congress | History›American Revolution | Identity, Personal›Ancestral | Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Change over time
Environment: Place›Official office
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Luck
Relationships: Marital›Shotgun marriage
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Flem and Eula marry
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Domestic Space›Office | Time of Day›Evening
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Prostitution
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Hardwick, Tennessee | Language›Profanity
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Fever | Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Community›Wedding | Recurring Tropes›Touch
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Marital›Forced
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Actions: Legal›Marriage | Mental›Uncertainty | Physical›Touching | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Promising | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock | Sexuality›Promiscuity
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Mystery | Meaning›Paternity | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Touch
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Marital›Forced
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Marital›Forced
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Actions: Emotional›Cynicism | Emotional›Despair | Legal›Marriage | Moral›Cheating | Moral›Lying | Play›Card playing | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Education›Exams / tests | Education›Expelled / expulsion | Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Character›Blackguard | Character›Scoundrel | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Honor | Psychological›Obsession | Values›Bad conduct | Values›Honor
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Marital›Forced | Social›Adversarial | Social›Club | Social›Isolation
Actions: Legal›Marriage | Work›Doctor / medical care
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Marital›Forced
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate | Weather›Rain
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Waiting | Legal›Marriage | Movement›Sneaking | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Looking | Physical›Waiting
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Abandonment | Memory›Remembering | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person