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Themes and Motifs: Determinism

Child Terms

  • Fated
  • Lack of choice

Sibling Terms

  • Absence/Loss
  • Animals
  • Appearance
  • Arrivals/Departures
  • Art
  • Body
  • Chaos/Order
  • Character
  • Community
  • Death
  • Exile
  • Futility
  • Home
  • Inheritance
  • Meaning
  • Memory
  • Money
  • Morals
  • Naming
  • Objects
  • Past
  • Philosophical
  • Psychological
  • Recurring Tropes
  • Story-telling
  • Supernatural
  • Texts
  • Time
  • Values

Tagged Events

"Hair", 131 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Verbal›Persuasion | Work›Barbering
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›Fated
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 380 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Waking | Mental›Dreaming | Mental›Imagining
Cultural Issues: Food›As substitute | Sexuality›Frustration
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›Lack of choice | Recurring Tropes›Precognition / Something to happen | Time›Long passage of time
"Two Soldiers", 95 (Event)
Environment: Place›Office
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Economic›Gifting | Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Love | Physical›Kissing | Verbal›Disagreeing | Verbal›Threat
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Farming life | Mass Media›Telephone
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Determinism›Lack of choice | Time
Relationships: Familial›Sibling
The Town, 315 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Ritual›Holiday
Themes and Motifs: Death | Determinism›Fated
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›First-person passim throughout section | Narrative›Foreshadowing