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Themes and Motifs: Futility In battle

Parent Term

  • Futility

Sibling Terms

  • Failure to defend honor
  • Illusion of success or victory
  • Inability
  • Nothing to do
  • When will it stop

Tagged Events

"Appendix: Compson", 329 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Failing / Failure
Cultural Issues: History›Battle of Shiloh|Pittsburg Landing | History›Civil War | War›Defeat
Themes and Motifs: Futility›In battle
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Shiloh | Recurring Episodes›General Compson's military record
"Appendix: Compson", 329 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Failing / Failure
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War | War›Defeat
Themes and Motifs: Futility›In battle | Recurring Tropes›Life as repetition
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Battle of Resaca | Recurring Episodes›General Compson's military record
Go Down, Moses, 272 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Futility›In battle
Aesthetics: Intertextuality›Faulkner text