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Themes and Motifs: Character Cruel

Parent Term

  • Character

Sibling Terms

  • Ambitious
  • Artist
  • Assertive
  • Barbarism
  • Bargainer
  • Blackguard
  • Bookishness
  • Bravado
  • Bravery
  • Cautious
  • Childlike
  • Comforter
  • Constitutive moment
  • Conviction
  • Courteous
  • Coward
  • Duty
  • Fool
  • Forbearance
  • Gambler
  • Greed
  • Helpless
  • Honesty
  • Humility
  • Hypocrisy
  • Impotence
  • Impulsiveness
  • Independence
  • Indomitable
  • Inexperience
  • Inherited traits
  • Innocence
  • Integrity
  • Intelligence
  • Laziness
  • Maturity
  • Naivety
  • Noisiness
  • Opportunism
  • Persistence
  • Personality change
  • Playfulness
  • Popularity
  • Power
  • Precision
  • Predatory
  • Pride
  • Principle
  • Provincialism
  • Purity
  • Recklessness
  • Regal
  • Reliability
  • Reputation
  • Resolve
  • Responsibility
  • Ruthless
  • Scoundrel
  • Self-reliance
  • Self-righteousness
  • Shrewdness
  • Sophistication
  • stoic
  • Stubborn
  • Stupid
  • Superhuman strength
  • Swagger
  • Teetotaler
  • Tenderness
  • Trust
  • Unknowable
  • Unruliness
  • Vanity
  • Violent
  • Work ethic

Tagged Events

The Sound and the Fury, 205 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Carriage | Perceptual›Seeing
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Separation | Character›Cruel
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Mother-daughter
The Town, 83 (Event)
Actions: Physical›Ambush | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Character›Cruel
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Narrative›Conjectural narration