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Absalom, Absalom!, 4 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Thunder | Olfactory›Sulfur
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Movement›Riding | Physical›Carrying | Physical›Clearing land | Physical›Restraining | Physical›Sitting | Work›Architect | Work›Construction
Cultural Issues: Labor›Racialized | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Hierarchical | Race›Racial consciousness | Slavery›Forced migration | Slavery›Racialism
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Art›Painting | Body›Hair | Body›Hand / Palm | Chaos/Order›Disorder | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Objects›Ax | Objects›Shovel | Recurring Tropes›Paradox
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave | Interracial›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Description›Character portrait | Description›Stage direction | Description›Tableau | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Bestial imagery | Figures of Speech›Chains | Figures of Speech›Dehumanizing | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Oxymoron | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile | Figures of Speech›Thunderclap | Metafictional›Painting | Recurring Episodes›Architect captured | Recurring Episodes›Sutpen's arrival | Style›Long sentence | Symbolism›Hamsa | Tone›Overwrought
Requiem for a Nun, 101 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Questioning
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Tone›Sarcastic
Requiem for a Nun, 102 (Event)
Environment: Place›Official office
Actions: Bodily›Smoking
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Education›Virginia | Gender›Chivalry | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Cigarette | Objects›Cigarette lighter
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Diction›Racist term
Requiem for a Nun, 110 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Italian | Health and Illness›Physical deformity | Sexuality›Impotence
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual | Recurring Episodes›Temple at Reba's | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Requiem for a Nun, 112 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Smoking
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Narrative›Delayed revelation
Requiem for a Nun, 113 (Event)
Environment: Place›Brothel / Bordello
Actions: Emotional›Love | Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Immodest female clothing | Sexuality›Prostitution
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual | Recurring Episodes›Temple at Reba's
Requiem for a Nun, 114 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Arguing
Cultural Issues: Gender›Male domination
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual | Recurring Episodes›Temple at Reba's
Requiem for a Nun, 118 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Letter | Emotional›Guilt | Verbal›Confession | Verbal›Explaining
Cultural Issues: Crime›Blackmail | Sexuality›Desire
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say | Texts›Love letter | Values›Evil
Relationships: Familial›Motherhood | Marital›Social respectability
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction
Requiem for a Nun, 121 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Verbal›Confession
Cultural Issues: Religion›Islam | Sexuality›Extra-marital
Relationships: Marital›Honeymoon
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Requiem for a Nun, 124 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Domestic Space›Kitchen | Place›Church | Place›Country club
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Domestic›Housekeeping | Interaction, Social›Partying | Interaction, Social›Peer group | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Sharing confidences
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›Respectability | Class›Status, low | Health and Illness›Hangover | Modernity›Interwar years | Religion›Catholicism
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Relationships: Interracial›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Hemingway, Ernest | Description›Stage direction | Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Requiem for a Nun, 126 (Event)
Environment: Place›Official office
Actions: Verbal›Interruption
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Narrative›Contested | Narrative›Theatrical effect | Symbolism›Created by characters | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Requiem for a Nun, 130 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Anxiety | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Religion›Relationship with God
Themes and Motifs: Body›Pregnancy
Relationships: Marital›As atonement
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Narrative›Theatrical effect | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Requiem for a Nun, 131 (Event)
Environment: Place›Official office
Actions: Verbal›Interruption
Cultural Issues: Gender›Male domination
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Requiem for a Nun, 132 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Imagining | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Crime›Blackmail
Themes and Motifs: Money›As motive
Relationships: Romantic›Sexual
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Hemingway, Ernest | Allusion, Mythical›Damocles sword | Description›Stage direction | Narrative›Perspective | Narrative›Theatrical effect | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Requiem for a Nun, 136 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Actions: Verbal›Explaining
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Narrative›Theatrical effect
Requiem for a Nun, 136 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Actions: Verbal›Command
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Narrative›Theatrical effect
Requiem for a Nun, 136 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Dressing room | Time of Day›Nine o'clock p.m. | Time of Year›September
Actions: Bodily›Kissing | Emotional›Suspicion | Perceptual›Eavesdropping | Physical›Searching | Verbal›Threat
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Coat | Clothes›Fur coat / suit | Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Suit | Clothes›Uniform | Crime›Blackmail | Crime›Theft|Robbery | Race›Black stereotype | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›Extra-marital
Themes and Motifs: Money›Cash | Objects›Baby bottle | Objects›Furniture | Objects›Luggage
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Sexual›Adultery
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction
Requiem for a Nun, 143 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Dressing room
Actions: Mental›Disapproval | Verbal›Command | Verbal›Disagreeing | Verbal›Screaming | Verbal›Threat | Violent›Hitting | Violent›Interracial
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Jewelry | Race›Black stereotype
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Desertion-family | Money›Cash | Objects›Baby bottle
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Mother-infant | Familial›Mother-son | Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Marital›Adultery
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Requiem for a Nun, 152 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Actions: Verbal›Screaming
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Money›Cash
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction
Requiem for a Nun, 153 (Event)
Environment: Place›Official office | Time of Day›Three o'clock a.m. | Time of Year›March
Actions: Bodily›Kneeling | Bodily›Sitting | Bodily›Standing
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Narrative›Theatrical effect
Requiem for a Nun, 153 (Event)
Environment: Place›Official office
Actions: Bodily›Kneeling | Emotional›Resignation | Physical›Lifting
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction
Requiem for a Nun, 156 (Event)
Environment: Place›Official office
Actions: Bodily›Blinking
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Handkerchief
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Narrative›Pause
Requiem for a Nun, 158 (Event)
Environment: Place›Official office
Actions: Emotional›Dread | Emotional›Repentance | Legal›Pardon | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Command
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Glove | Clothes›Handbag
Themes and Motifs: Time›Cyclical
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Requiem for a Nun, 164 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Time›Cyclical
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Narrative›Origin | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual | Recurring Episodes›Temple leaves train | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Requiem for a Nun, 164 (Event)
Environment: Place›Official office
Actions: Emotional›Dread
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Belatedness | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow | Time›Cyclical
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Requiem for a Nun, 165 (Event)
Environment: Place›Official office
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Telegram | Values›Sacrifice
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction
Requiem for a Nun, 165 (Event)
Environment: Place›Official office
Themes and Motifs: Futility | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Philosophical›Redemption
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction
Requiem for a Nun, 206 (Event)
Environment: Place›Jail | Time of Day›Ten o'clock a.m. | Time of Year›March
Actions: Bodily›Miscarriage | Moral›Forgiveness | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Garrulousness | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Singing
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype: smell | Religion›Religious faith | Sexuality›Promiscuity | Violence›Domestic
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Salvation | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow
Relationships: Familial›Motherhood | Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Interracial›Mammy-child | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Macbeth | Description›Stage direction | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Parentheses | 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, 41 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Apartment | Time of Day›Six o'clock p.m. | Time of Year›November
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Emotional›Hysteria | Emotional›Waiting | Verbal›Dialogue | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Abstinence | Alcohol›Whiskey | Clothes›Coat | Clothes›Fur coat / suit | Clothes›Glove | Clothes›Handbag | Clothes›Hat | Crime›Drug addiction | Crime›Prostitution | Modernity›Interwar years
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Objects›Bottle | Objects›Cigarette | Objects›Cigarette lighter | Objects›Furniture | Past›Past in present | Values›Truth/Lies
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Requiem for a Nun, 50 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Apartment
Actions: Verbal›Revealing
Relationships: Sexual›Adultery
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction
Requiem for a Nun, 50 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Apartment
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Verbal›Withholding
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Abstinence | Alcohol›Sobriety | Class›Gentility
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Requiem for a Nun, 56 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Repression | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Mumbling | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Alcohol›Whiskey | Crime›Prostitution | Entertainment›Movies | Sexuality›Female
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Relationships: Marital›As atonement
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction
Requiem for a Nun, 59 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Apartment | Time of Day›Ten o'clock p.m. | Time of Year›March
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Suit | Health and Illness›Sleeping pill
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction
Requiem for a Nun, 62 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Apartment
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Withholding
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Old vs new selves
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Cigarette | Objects›Cigarette lighter | Past›Past in present | Values›Honor | Values›Truth/Lies
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Hamlet | Description›Stage direction | Diction›Racist term | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Requiem for a Nun, 75 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Apartment
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Mental›Changing one's mind | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Technology›Telephone
Themes and Motifs: Values›Truth/Lies
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Requiem for a Nun, 77 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Apartment
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Perceptual›Eavesdropping
Cultural Issues: Technology›Telephone
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Requiem for a Nun, 89 (Event)
Environment: Place›Official office | Time of Day›Two o'clock a.m. | Time of Year›March
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Withholding
Cultural Issues: Clothes›And class | Clothes›Coat | Clothes›Fur coat / suit | Clothes›Glove | Clothes›Handbag | Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Suit
Themes and Motifs: Naming›And caste | Objects›Cigarette | Objects›Cigarette lighter | Objects›Furniture | Past›As explanatory
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Narrative›Theatrical effect | Symbolism›Theatrical | Tone›Sarcastic