Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order Disorder

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"Knight's Gambit", 154 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Garrulousness
Cultural Issues: War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Disorder | Character›Bookishness
Relationships: Marital›Arranged
"Spotted Horses", 165 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Confused din
Actions: Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Wild horses | Chaos/Order›Disorder
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Tall tale | Narrative›First-person vernacular passim
As I Lay Dying, 124 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Interaction, Private›Rejection | Mental›Planning | Verbal›Refusing
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Chaos/Order›Disorder | Supernatural›Insight
As I Lay Dying, 51 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Sawing
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Bodily›Dipping snuff
Cultural Issues: Religion›Piety
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Disorder | Character›Opportunism | Recurring Tropes›Imitation
As I Lay Dying, 97 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Bad smell | Olfactory›Decay
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Fury | Emotional›Impatience | Physical›Carrying | Verbal›Command
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Disorder | Character›Cautious | Death›Coffin
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Description›Animate/Inanimate
Requiem for a Nun, 32 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Disorder
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Requiem for a Nun, 5 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Violence›Drunken brawling
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Disorder
Requiem for a Nun, 7 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Disorder | Objects›Padlock
Sanctuary, 134 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Midnight
Cultural Issues: Race›Black stereotype
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Disorder | Community›Alienation
Sanctuary, 224 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Restlessness
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics | Chaos/Order›Disorder | Objects›Gun
Sanctuary, 256 (Event)
Actions: Perceptual›Professional surveillance
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Violence›Domestic
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Disorder
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Sanctuary, 270 (Event)
Environment: Place›Decayed house
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype eyes | Religion›Voodoo
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Disorder
Sanctuary, 3 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Birdsong | Auditory›Cars passing | Natural›Spring
Actions: Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Disorder | Objects›Books
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Dehumanizing | Symbolism›Reflection
The Sound and the Fury, 137 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Wetness | Domestic Space›Hogwallow | Natural›Mud | Olfactory›Hog / pig pen | Weather›Rain
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Jealousy | Emotional›Longing | Emotional›Self-consciousness | Emotional›Shame | Interaction, Private›Domineering | Perceptual›Sweetness | Perceptual›Tasting | Physical›Embrace / hugging | Physical›Touching | Physical›Turning away | Verbal›Conversation | Violent›Hitting
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dirty | Clothes›Underclothes, female | Gender›Female body | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›Sensuality
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Dirty | Body›Face | Body›Fingers | Body›Legs | Body›Lips | Chaos/Order›Disorder | Memory›Remembering | Psychological›Obsession
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Language›Fragments | Language›Profanity | Narrative›Second-person directed | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Symbolism›Archetype | Symbolism›Freudian | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Sound and the Fury, 320 (Event)
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Emotional›Anguish | Emotional›Crying | Perceptual›Observing | Perceptual›Passing from sight | Verbal›Threat | Violent›Hitting
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Chaos/Order›Disorder | Chaos/Order›Out of ordered place | Objects›Windows | Psychological›Terror | Recurring Tropes›Confederate monument | Recurring Tropes›Door
The Sound and the Fury, 56 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight
Actions: Emotional›Comforting | Emotional›Crying | Perceptual›Looking
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Disorder | Memory›Remembering | Naming›Renaming | Objects›Fire | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Town, 250 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Falling
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Disorder | Objects›Rope
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses