Themes and Motifs: Meaning Absurdity

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"Beyond", 791 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Contempt | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Grief | Physical›Waiting | Physical›Walking | Verbal›Giving advice | Verbal›Questioning
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Illusion of success or victory | Meaning›Absurdity | Objects›Briefcase | Objects›Cigarette | Objects›Photograph | Philosophical›Existentialism
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Ingersoll, Robert G. | Language›Latin phrase | Symbolism›Christian | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 102 (Event)
Cultural Issues: War›Civil War | War›Deprivation
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Absurdity | Objects›Letter | Objects›Stove polish
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Sherman, William Tecumseh | Figures of Speech›Scarecrow | Symbolism›Christian | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 154 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: War›Civil War | War›Deprivation
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Meaning›Absurdity | Objects›Tombstone
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Cumberland Gap|Cumberland Mountains | Allusion, Geographical›Gettysburg | Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Sound and the Fury, 76 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Gifting | Emotional›Cynicism | Emotional›Defeat | Verbal›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Illusion of success or victory | Meaning›Absurdity | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Memory›Forgetting | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Watch | Philosophical›Nihilism | Recurring Tropes›Father said | Recurring Tropes›Mausoleum | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being outside of time
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Classical rhetoric | Language›Latin phrase | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Hyphen | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Sound and the Fury, 85 (Event)
Environment: Public›Store | Public›Street
Actions: Interaction, Private›Store owner-customer | Mental›Learning | Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shoes | Education›Harvard
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Condition of heaviness | Death›Preparing for death | Death›Suicide | Meaning›Absurdity | Objects›Flat-iron | Philosophical›Human experience | Philosophical›Human nature | Recurring Tropes›Father said
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Latin pastoral poetry | Description›Weight / Burden | Language›Fragments | Language›Latin phrase | Narrative›Foreshadowing