Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes Doom
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- "Wait"
- Apotheosis
- Apparition
- Belatedness
- Beyond
- Chasing a person
- Confederate monument
- Constitutive moment
- Dark house
- Dead time
- Design
- Destiny
- Door
- Dream
- Dream turns to dust
- Echo
- Endurance
- Eternal feminine
- Fairy-tale
- Fatality
- Father said
- Fire on the hearth
- Fixation
- Gaze
- Glory
- Going fast
- Going to Texas
- Gossip
- Hands in pockets
- Illusion
- Illusion
- Imitation
- Killing first deer/marked with blood
- Laughter as sign of madness
- Life as repetition
- Little sister
- Mausoleum
- Mediation
- Nothingness
- Odor
- Open secret
- Paradox
- Performance
- Precognition / Something to happen
- Reality
- Recovery
- Restoration / rebuilding
- Reunion
- Revenge
- Right-of-way
- Scandal
- Searching
- Secret
- Sending someone to Jackson
- Sexual power
- Shadows
- Sleeping in same bed
- Smelled like trees
- Sole owner and proprietor
- Solitary
- Solitude
- Sound of a gunshot
- Stillness
- Sun / Sunlight
- Thinking of home
- Threshold
- Tomorrow and tomorrow
- Touch
- Triumph
- Trying to say
- Twilight
- Upward mobility
- Vanishing
- Vitality
- Year the stars fell
Tagged Events
Environment: Natural›Wilderness
Actions: Violent›Animal predatory behavior
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Hunting and Fishing›Local legend | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Livestock | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Story-telling›Hunting
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Priam
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing
Themes and Motifs: Body›Sensory experience | Body›Womb | Memory›Forgetting | Psychological›Will to endure | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Recurring Tropes›Mediation | Recurring Tropes›Sun / Sunlight
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Fish | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Body›Blood | Body›Face | Body›Hand / Palm | Memory | Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Recurring Tropes›Sun / Sunlight | Supernatural›Phantom | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit | Values›Love
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Gender›Marriage | Gender›Southern woman | Group Mentality›Community collective | War›Civil War | War›Deprivation
Themes and Motifs: Character›Reputation | Death | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Actions: Bodily›Starvation | Emotional›Outrage | Verbal›Marriage proposal | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Age›Spinsterhood | Class›Respectability | Class›White trash | Crime›Murder | History›Stealing Indian land | Region›Reconstruction | Slavery›Emancipation | War›Civil War | War›Draft evasion / Draft dodging
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Pistol | Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Recurring Tropes›Mausoleum | Recurring Tropes›Restoration / rebuilding | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Beelzebub | Allusion, Historical›Davis, Jefferson | Allusion, Historical›Lee, Robert Edward | Allusion, Literary›Faustus | Allusion, Mythical›Agamemnon | Allusion, Mythical›Cassandra | Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Allusion, Mythical›Pyramus and Thisbe | Figures of Speech›Creditor | Figures of Speech›Jackal | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Scythe | Narrative›Summary | Tone›Shift
Cultural Issues: Slavery | Violence›Interracial
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Doom
Cultural Issues: Class›Birthright
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Doom
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Moth | Narrative›Anticipation
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Doom
Actions: Physical›Embrace / hugging | Physical›Kissing
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Doom
Themes and Motifs: Death›Car accident | Memory›Sensory memory | Recurring Tropes›Doom
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Violent›Murder
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Doom
Relationships: Sexual›Extramarital
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Environment: Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Bodily›Playing music
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Child's name | Recurring Tropes›Doom
Environment: Atmospheric›Doom | Natural›Wilderness | Place›Wilderness-civilized boundary
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past vs present | Recurring Tropes›Doom
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Doom | Time›Long passage of time
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Genesis
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Doom
Themes and Motifs: Home›Getting away | Recurring Tropes›Doom