Actions: Perceptual Watching
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Ambiguity
- Blurring
- Eavesdropping
- Experiencing second-hand / vicariously
- Familiarity
- Hearing
- Investigating
- Listening
- Looking
- Looking away
- Looking back
- Misreading
- Moment of vision
- Nosiness
- Observing
- Overhearing
- Passing from sight
- Professional surveillance
- Reading / Researching
- Seeing
- Sensing
- Sensing the past
- Smelling
- Spying
- Strip searching
- Surveillance
- Sweetness
- Tasting
- Tickling
- Unknowable
- Voyeurism
Tagged Events
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Bodily›Hiccups | Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Objects›Lamp or lantern
Environment: Place›Wilderness-civilized boundary
Actions: Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Searching
Cultural Issues: Clothes›And race | Race›Native American
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian
Actions: Emotional›Fascination | Perceptual›Watching
Actions: Emotional›Fascination | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Age›Maturing | Ritual›Christmas holiday traditions
Actions: Interaction, Social›Gossip | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Rumor
Actions: Emotional›Curious | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Newspaper comics / funny paper
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Communication›Silence | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Group Mentality›Community collective
Actions: Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Class consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Community›Stranger | Recurring Tropes›Restoration / rebuilding
Actions: Hunting›Fox hunting | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Class consciousness | Race›Hierarchical
Themes and Motifs: Home›Home as prison
Actions: Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Home›Home as prison
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Home›Home as prison | Morals›Chivalry
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Economic›Bargaining | Economic›Paying | Economic›Scamming | Emotional›Despair | Mental›Realization | Moral›Exploitation | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Eating | Physical›Sitting | Verbal›Complaining | Verbal›Negotiation
Themes and Motifs: Morals›Justice | Recurring Tropes›Twilight
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Race›Etiquette | Race›Miscegenation
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Olfactory›Flowers
Actions: Emotional›Surprise | Perceptual›Watching
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile
Actions: Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Body›Physical disability | Time›Measuring time
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Perceptual›Watching | Play›Children playing
Themes and Motifs: Community›Alienation
Relationships: Familial | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Gender
Actions: Moral›Renounce | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Wedding dress
Relationships: Familial›Dissolution | Marital›Arrangements
Actions: Emotional›Fury | Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Character›Ruthless | Character›Vanity | Psychological›Madness | Time›Running out
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Mirage | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Figures of Speech›Shell | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Auditory›Gallop | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Movement›Carriage | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Class | Race›Stereotype: teeth | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Domestic labor
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Familial | Interracial›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Djinn | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Figures of Speech›Face | Figures of Speech›Replica | Figures of Speech›Tornado
Actions: Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Inaction / Not doing something | Verbal›Invitation
Themes and Motifs: Character›Conviction
Actions: Movement›Horse | Perceptual›Watching
Actions: Emotional›Despair | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Class›Planter vs farmer | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Lee, Robert Edward | Allusion, Literary›Macbeth | Narrative›Gaps
Actions: Communication›Letter | Economic›Scheming | Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Manipulation
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Plantation
Actions: Perceptual›Watching | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Group Mentality›Community collective | Race›Black stereotype | Slavery›Imported | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Nakedness | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Objects›Pistol | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Shadow
Environment: Place›Plantation
Actions: Emotional›Fury | Perceptual›Watching | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Frock coat | Clothes›Hat | Group Mentality›Community collective | Slavery›Forced migration | Slavery›Labor | Slavery›Racialism
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mosquitoes | Objects›Windows | Recurring Tropes›Fatality | Supernatural›Ghost
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Actions: Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: War›Bivouac fires | War›Civil War | War›Deprivation
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Place›Livery stable | Place›Plantation | Place›Slave Quarters | Place›Smokehouse
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Economic›Borrowing | Emotional›Patience | Hunting›Deer hunting | Perceptual›Watching | Play›Gambling | Verbal›Rumor | Violent›Fighting | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Alcohol›Drunkenness | Alcohol›Whiskey | Class›Respectability | Gender›Inversion | Gender›Masculinity | Group Mentality›Community collective | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Deer | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Turkey | Chaos/Order | Meaning›Mystery | Money›Dowry | Money›Gold | Objects›Footprint | Recurring Tropes›Solitude | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Environment: Public›Church | Public›Town Square
Actions: Emotional›Amazement | Emotional›Surprise | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Class›Respectability | Clothes›Formal | Group Mentality›Community collective | Religion›Sabbath
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Electricity | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Plantation
Actions: Emotional›Resentment | Mental›Envisioning | Movement›Wagon | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Rumor
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Crime | Government›Uncle Sam | Group Mentality›Community collective | Religion›Godhead | Slavery
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Oxen | Arrivals/Departures›Return | Objects›Chandlier | Objects›Crystal | Objects›Furniture
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Movement›Horse | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Beaver hat | Clothes›Frock coat
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Appearance | Character›Power | Character›Ruthless | Objects›Basket | Objects›Portmanteau | Objects›Tarpaulin
Relationships: Civic
Actions: Legal›Arraign | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Law›Bail | Slavery›Self-emancipation
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Mental›Self-consciousness | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Formal | Clothes›Frock coat | Clothes›Hat | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Appearance | Character›Swagger
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Interaction, Social›Shopping | Movement›Horse | Perceptual›Watching
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Appearance
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
Actions: Emotional›Detachment | Interaction, Private›Seducing | Mental›Fatalism | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Character›Barbarism | Character›Sophistication
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Roman consul | Allusion, Historical›Scythian
Actions: Emotional›Love | Moral›Renounce | Movement›Horse | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Class›Birthright | Clothes›Cloak | Clothes›Gown | Clothes›Hat | Gender›Cross-dress | Group Mentality›Community collective | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Character›Maturity | Character›Provincialism | Character›Sophistication | Recurring Tropes›Imitation
Relationships: Friendship›Male-male attraction
Actions: Hunting | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Riding
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Shades | Figures of Speech›Bloom | Figures of Speech›Butterfly | Metafictional›Projection
Actions: Emotional›Seduction | Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Imitation | Supernatural›Spell | Values›Devotion
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Friendship
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Actions: Movement›Wagon | Perceptual›Watching
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
Actions: Movement›Train | Perceptual›Watching
Environment: Place›Indian mound
Actions: Emotional›Curious | Perceptual›Watching
Environment: Place›Indian mound
Actions: Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Digging
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Store clothes
Actions: Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival
Environment: Auditory›Birdsong | Auditory›Cars passing
Actions: Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Disorder | Objects›Books
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Dehumanizing | Symbolism›Reflection
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Domestic Space›Dining room | Time of Year›Easter
Actions: Bodily›Eating breakfast | Bodily›Hungering | Domestic›Feeding | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Nonverbal taunting or teasing
Cultural Issues: Crime›Breaking and entering | Food›Breakfast
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Photography
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Perceptual›Watching
Actions: Economic›Banking | Economic›Stock trading | Emotional›Surprise | Mental›Learning | Perceptual›Watching
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Military analogy | Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Economic›Banking | Emotional›Shame | Mental›Learning | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Disagreeing | Verbal›Speculation
Themes and Motifs: Money›As motive | Money›Filthy lucre
Relationships: Commercial›Rivalry
Actions: Economic›Insurance payment | Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Chaos | Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Actions: Mental›Contemplation | Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Losing vs never having | Recurring Tropes›Shadows