Themes and Motifs: Memory Haunted by past

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"Shall Not Perish", 112 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Saturday
Actions: Bodily›Laughing | Bodily›Shaking | Bodily›Sleeping | Bodily›Waking | Mental›Hallucinating | Physical›Escaping | Verbal›Shouting | Verbal›Warning
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Entertainment›Movies | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Haunted by past
"Uncle Willy", 247 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Anxiety | Emotional›Guilt | Moral›Aiding and abetting | Moral›Confession | Verbal›Explaining
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age
Themes and Motifs: Community›Secrecy | Meaning›Limitations of words / language | Memory›Haunted by past | Recurring Tropes›Dream turns to dust | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Friendship›Adult-child
Aesthetics: Narrative›Commentary
Absalom, Absalom!, 15 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Auditory›Gallop | Auditory›Hoofbeats | Public›Church | Public›Road | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Day›Sunday morning
Actions: Emotional›Anticipation | Interaction, Social›Spectate | Movement›Carriage | Movement›Racing | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Class | Clothes›Driving gear | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Stereotype: teeth | Religion›Church service | Religion›Redemption | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Domestic labor
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Community›Crowd | Memory›Haunted by past | Memory›Remembering | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Going fast | Recurring Tropes›Performance | Recurring Tropes›Threshold | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility | Story-telling›Reminiscence
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Hierarchical›Master-servant | Hierarchical›Master-slave | Interracial›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Djinn | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Figures of Speech›Bestial imagery | Figures of Speech›Face | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Replica | Figures of Speech›Tornado | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Metafictional›Picture/image | Narrative›Foreshadowing
Absalom, Absalom!, 4 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Haunted | Atmospheric›Spectral | Place›Plantation
Actions: Communication›Listening | Communication›Silence | Mental›Imagining | Mental›Internal argument | Mental›Uncertainty | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Dialogue | Verbal›Garrulousness | Verbal›Interruption | Verbal›Repetition | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity | Education›Harvard | History›Civil War consequences | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | Region›The South | Slavery›Labor | Violence
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Paternity | Memory›Haunted by past | Memory›Remembering | Past›Past in present | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Old insult (abiding affront) | Story-telling›Collaborative | Story-telling›Reminiscence | Story-telling›Retelling | Story-telling›Story-telling passim | Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Haunting | Time›Past
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Father-son | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Parents-children | Familial›Sister-sister
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Diction›Neologism | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Negation | Figures of Speech›Voice | Genre Conventions›Ghost story | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Language›Abundance or flow of words | Language›Grandiloquence | Narrative›Conversation with oneself | Narrative›Imagined conversation | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 42 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space
Actions: Mental›Remembering | Physical›Protection | Verbal›Teasing
Cultural Issues: Gender›Women
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Haunted by past | Objects›Thimble | Past›Past in present | Psychological›Trauma
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Absalom, Absalom!, 48 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Place›Plantation
Actions: Bodily›Playing music | Interaction, Social›Visiting | Perceptual›Seeing | Play›Children playing
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Naming slaves
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Art›Music | Memory›Haunted by past | Objects›Piano | Supernatural›Monster / monstrous
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-niece
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Greek tragedy | Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Figures of Speech›Mask
Absalom, Absalom!, 51 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Attic | Domestic Space›Dining room
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Interaction, Social›Visiting | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Clothes›Coat | Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Sunday clothes | Gender›Women
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Height (tall, short) | Body›Eyes | Body›Hair | Chaos/Order | Memory›Haunted by past | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Supernatural›Monster / monstrous | Time›Anticipation | Values›Propriety
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Physical resemblances
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Description›Character portrait | Figures of Speech›Eyes | Figures of Speech›Face | Figures of Speech›Mask | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Absalom, Absalom!, 6 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Note | Communication›Writing | Mental›Deciding | Mental›Realization | Mental›Reinterpretation | Mental›Speculation | Mental›Thinking | Mental›Understanding | Perceptual›Ambiguity | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War | History›Civil War consequences | Region›Lost Cause | Region›The South | Religion›Divine judgment | Religion›Godhead | Religion›Providence | War›Defeat
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Military defeat | Absence/Loss›War | Inheritance›Traits | Meaning›Paternity | Memory›Haunted by past | Past›As explanatory | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Old insult (abiding affront) | Story-telling›Audience response | Story-telling›Explaining | Texts›Note | Values›Sacrifice
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Intergenerational›Obligation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Divine intervention | Allusion, Biblical›God / Jehovah | Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Figures of Speech›Negation | Figures of Speech›Water | Language›Biblical | Narrative›Self-correction | Symbolism›Blood | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 7 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Familiar | Atmospheric›Haunted | Auditory›Echoing
Actions: Mental›Misunderstanding | Mental›Remembering | Mental›Unaware | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Looking back
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Lost Cause | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Education›Informal | Group Mentality›Community collective | History›Civil War consequences | Region›Lost Cause | Region›The South | War›Defeat
Themes and Motifs: Character›Impotence | Community›Alienation | Determinism›Lack of choice | Futility›Inability | Memory›Collective memory | Memory›Haunted by past | Naming›Importance of naming | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Echo | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Supernatural›Ghost | Time›Long passage of time
Relationships: Social›Isolation
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Medical / Surgical | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Military terminology | Figures of Speech›Personification | Narrative›Background | Narrative›Commentary | Tone›Elegiac
Flags in the Dust, 3 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory
Actions: Communication›And deafness | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Shouting
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Overalls
Themes and Motifs: Body›Teeth | Memory›Haunted by past | Objects›Pipe | Past›Prehistory | Supernatural›Ghost
Flags in the Dust, 323 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Grayness | Time of Year›Christmas | Time of Year›December
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Emotional›Longing | Emotional›Shame | Movement›Walking | Physical›Hiding
Cultural Issues: Ritual›Christmas holiday traditions | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›Disgust with sex
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Haunted by past | Psychological›Disembodiment | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Relationships: Sexual›Desertion
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Flags in the Dust, 45 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Panting | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: War›Death
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Memory›Haunted by past
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Flags in the Dust, 56 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom
Actions: Bodily›Playing music | Domestic›Cleaning
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Haunted by past | Objects›Piano | Supernatural›Ghost
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›England
The Hamlet, 206 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Sunset | Time of Year›Saturday
Actions: Domestic›Milking | Interaction, Social›Picnic | Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Gender›Men vs women | Mass Media›Newspaper | Race›Black stereotype
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Livestock | Animals›Dogs | Memory›Haunted by past
Relationships: Familial›Widower
The Hamlet, 261 (Event)
Environment: Place›Penitentiary | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›July
Actions: Movement›Horse
Cultural Issues: Gender›Inversion | History›Convict labor | Land-Use›Logging | Politics›Corruption | Sexuality›Interracial | Sexuality›Promiscuity
Themes and Motifs: Body›Teeth | Memory›Haunted by past
Relationships: Familial›Widower
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
The Mansion, 118 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Nostalgia | Mental›Realization | Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Quest to recover | Home›Trying to go home | Memory›Haunted by past | Time›Lost time
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Mansion, 210 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Shame | Military›Combat | Verbal›Discussion
Cultural Issues: War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return from war | Character›Inherited traits | Determinism›Fated | Memory›Haunted by past
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Twins
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses