Themes and Motifs: Appearance Nakedness

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"Miss Zilphia Gant", 373 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Embarrassment | Emotional›Fear | Interaction, Private›Domineering | Perceptual›Strip searching | Verbal›Family history
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Learning about | Sexuality›Puberty
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Nakedness | Past›Parental
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Absalom, Absalom!, 26 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Mud | Natural›River
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Movement›Return | Movement›Riding | Movement›Wagon | Perceptual›Observing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Frock coat | Clothes›Hat | Crime›Theft|Robbery | Crime›Waistcoat | Economy›Economic speculation | Nationality›French | Slavery›Forced migration | Slavery›Imported | Slavery›Slave trading | Slavery›Slaves vs masters
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Inscrutable | Appearance›Nakedness | Arrivals/Departures›Return | Money›Gold | Money›Loot | Time›Duration of time
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Description›Tableau | Narrative›Revision
Absalom, Absalom!, 27 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Natural›Mud | Natural›Swamp | Place›Plantation | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Fall | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Communication›Language barriers | Communication›Speaking | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Suspicion | Interaction, Social›Male gathering | Interaction, Social›Withdrawal from public | Movement›Riding | Perceptual›Observing | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Storytelling | Work›Building structure | Work›Sawmilling
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Ethnicity›Language barrier | Group Mentality›Community collective | Hunting and Fishing›Local legend | Land-Use›Ownership | Race›Black stereotype | Slavery›Imported | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Alligators | Animals›Dogs | Appearance›Nakedness | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Community›Local legends | Objects›Bricks | Objects›Pistol | Story-telling›Communal mythology | Values›Determination
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Description›Tableau | Figures of Speech›Bestial imagery | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Commentary | Narrative›Communal narrative | Narrative›Reconstructed
Flags in the Dust, 45 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Light
Actions: Bodily›Groaning | Domestic›Care | Emotional›Petulance | Mental›Nightmare | Verbal›Command
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shawl
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Nakedness | Objects›Milk
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew | Intergenerational›Conflict | Social›Paternalism
Go Down, Moses, 334 (Event)
Environment: Place›Bedroom
Actions: Economic›Renting
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Manipulative
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Appearance›Nakedness
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Intertextuality›Faulkner text | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual
Sanctuary, 145 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Place›Brothel / Bordello | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Bodily›Bleeding | Emotional›Shame | Verbal›Cursing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dirty | Clothes›Underclothes, female | Health and Illness›Doctoring | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Appearance›Nakedness | Objects›Tankard
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
The Hamlet, 220 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Noon | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Physical›Reading
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Glasses
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Nakedness | Values›Family honor
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Interspecies›Man-cow
The Sound and the Fury, 136 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Body of water | Natural›River
Actions: Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Movement›Swimming | Movement›Walking | Play›Children playing | Play›Playing in water | Verbal›Shouting
Cultural Issues: Gender›Male body
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Nakedness | Body
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child
Aesthetics: Description›Color brown
The Sound and the Fury, 137 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Wetness | Natural›Body of water | Natural›Moss | Natural›River | Public›Bridge
Actions: Emotional›Embarrassment | Emotional›Exasperation | Emotional›Longing | Emotional›Pity | Emotional›Self-consciousness | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Movement›Wagon | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Voyeurism | Play›Children playing | Play›Playing in water
Cultural Issues: Education›Harvard | Gender›Male body
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Beavers | Animals›Horses | Appearance›Nakedness | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Body›Chins | Body›Male body | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Recurring Tropes›Stillness
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Harvard University | Figures of Speech›Simile
The Sound and the Fury, 17 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Creek | Olfactory›Rain | Olfactory›Smelling trees | Olfactory›Trees
Actions: Bodily›Squatting | Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Crying | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Undressing | Play›Playing in water | Verbal›Hushing | Verbal›Stating intent to leave home / run away | Violent›Hitting
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Clothes›Dirty | Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Underclothes, female | Clothes›Undressing | Education›Primary school | Sexuality›Female
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Nakedness | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Smelled like trees
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Sibling | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person | Interracial›Domestic
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
The Sound and the Fury, 170 (Event)
Environment: Place›Brothel / Bordello
Actions: Legal›Arrest | Movement›Streetcar
Cultural Issues: Race›Racial consciousness | Religion›African American | Sexuality›Prostitution
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Nakedness
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Jesus | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration