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Themes and Motifs: Meaning Maternity

Parent Term

  • Meaning

Sibling Terms

  • Absurdity
  • Interpretation of symbol
  • Limitations of words / language
  • Maybe as concept
  • Meaninglessness
  • Misinterpretation
  • Mystery
  • Paternity
  • Profound

Tagged Events

As I Lay Dying, 175 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Breastfeeding | Domestic›Cleaning
Themes and Motifs: Death›Preparing for death | Meaning›Interpretation of symbol | Meaning›Maternity | Meaning›Meaninglessness
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Blood
As I Lay Dying, 176 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Calculation
Cultural Issues: Law›Compensation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Death›Anticipation of death | Meaning›Maternity | Meaning›Paternity
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children
As I Lay Dying, 195 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Decay
Actions: Bodily›Feeling pain | Verbal›Self-justifying
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Medicine
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Buzzards | Animals›Fish | Animals›Horses | Death›Denial | Meaning›Maternity
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Mother-son | Interspecies›Man-fish | Interspecies›Man-horse
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
As I Lay Dying, 212 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Cursing
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cats | Death›Corpse | Meaning›Maternity | Meaning›Paternity | Psychological›Madness
Relationships: Familial›Kinship