Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss Aloneness
Description
As in the "aloneness" Addie Bundren seeks to have violated in As I Lay Dying. EKP
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Abandonment
- Absence
- Absence as disguise
- Absence as loss
- Absence of sound
- Attempt to find substitute
- Blame
- Burning a town
- Capture as loss
- Deracination
- Disappearance
- Kinlessness
- Livestock
- Losing vs never having
- Loss of animal companion
- Loss of innocence
- Loss of object
- Material
- Men
- Military defeat
- Missing
- Money
- Of loved one
- Over time
- Renewal
- Separation
- Substitute
- Vanishing Indian
- War
Tagged Events
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Domestic Space›Empty room
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness
Environment: Auditory›Cars passing
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Injured
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness | Chaos/Order›Accident | Death›Car accident
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Pregnancy | Communication›Without words | Emotional›Cynicism | Violent›Whipping
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness | Absence/Loss›Substitute | Meaning›Limitations of words / language | Philosophical›Nihilism
Aesthetics: Ambiguity›Unspecified shapes | Symbolism›Blood
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness | Absence/Loss›Blame | Animals›Cows
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Description›Landscape
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Time of Day›Twilight | Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Emotional›Tragic / tragedy
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Barnes, Djuna | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Second-person directed | Tone›Elegiac
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Alter ego / other self
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness | Animals›Mockingbird | Objects›Flowers Dogwood | Philosophical›Existentialism | Recurring Tropes›Dream turns to dust
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics