Themes and Motifs: Past
Child Terms
- And monuments
- Anxiety about|Resistance to change
- As explanatory
- Discovering it
- Family history
- Freedom from it
- Grander than present
- Historical wrong
- Innocence
- Old days
- Parental
- Past in present
- Past vs present
- Personal past
- Prehistory
- Quest to recover
- Recent past
- Relics
- Repetition
- Traumatic
- Yoknapatawpha founders
Tagged Events
Environment: Place›Hunting camps | Place›River-bottom
Cultural Issues: Progress›Cars | Progress›Technological
Themes and Motifs: Body›Teeth | Past›Past vs present
Relationships: Commercial›Customer relations
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability | Economy›Poverty | Labor›Unemployment
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past vs present
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Great Depression
Environment: Atmospheric›Dangerous | Place›Indian mound
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging | Cultural Identity›Country vs city | Government | Group Mentality›Communal story | History›Civil War | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Native American
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Deracination | Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Appearance›Diminishment / fading | Community›Local legends | Naming›Renaming | Past | Story-telling›Communal mythology | Supernatural›Folklore | Supernatural›Place | Texts›Novel
Relationships: Friendship›Childhood friends
Actions: Interaction, Social›Picnic | Physical›Burning | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Revealing | Violent›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Pistol | Past | Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of object | Objects›Gun | Objects›Steamboat | Past›Past vs present
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Native American
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Uncle-nephew | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Background
Themes and Motifs: Past›Old days | Story-telling›Old days
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | History›Founding fathers
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Story-telling›Old days
Cultural Issues: Progress›Renovations
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Cultural Issues: Age | Progress›Air travel
Themes and Motifs: Art›Music | Art›Photograph | Death | Past›Past vs present
Actions: Interaction, Social›Conspiracy | Verbal›Provoking
Themes and Motifs: Exile›Dispossession | Exile›Driven away | Inheritance›Traits | Objects›Sword | Past›Repetition
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Kentucky | Narrative›Repetition
Environment: Place›Plantation | Place›Sawmill
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Savagism | History›Indian Removal | Race›Miscegenation | Race›Native American stereotype | Slavery›Indian slave-owners | Slavery›Ownership | Technology›Steam locomotive
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Character›Persistence | Exile›Indian Removal | Past›Past in present | Time›Future
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Class consciousness | Government›Governor | Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Exile›Dispossession | Home | Naming›Place name | Past›Family history | Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Environment: Place›Decayed plantation
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | Class›Social decline | Government›Governor
Themes and Motifs: Death›Eulogy | Memory›Forgetting | Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Environment: Domestic Space›Boarding house
Actions: Economic›Selling a house or place
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Class›Social decline | Health and Illness›Mental limitations | Progress›Building structure
Themes and Motifs: Death | Past›Past in present | Time›Future
Relationships: Familial›Dysfunctional
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›Vs human agency | Naming›Child's name | Past›Repetition
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Indiana | Recurring Episodes›Caddy's wedding
Environment: Public›Store | Time of Year›Spring
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Sibling
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Ab's war wound
Environment: Natural›Wilderness
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War as point of reference
Themes and Motifs: Past›Grander than present
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›De Spain creates camp
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Deafness | Prejudice›Racism
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Psychological›Disembodiment
Actions: Communication›Gossip | Domestic›Housekeeping | Economic›Paying
Themes and Motifs: Past›Family history | Texts›Accounts
Aesthetics: Intertextuality›Embedded text, cursive
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Over time | Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Actions: Hunting›Squirrel hunting | Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bear | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Mosquitoes | Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion | Past›Recent past
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection
Actions: Emotional›Exasperation | Emotional›Fury | Mental›Realization | Physical›Hammering | Physical›Repair
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named dog Lion | Animals›Squirrel | Objects›Gun | Past›Recent past | Time›Living in the present
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Atmospheric›Peaceful | Place›Decayed plantation | Place›Road | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Interaction, Social›Spectate | Movement›Wagon
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules | Arrivals/Departures | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Ben-Hur | Figures of Speech›Simile
Environment: Place›Plantation
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Cotton farming | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Property | Objects›European in U.S. | Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Old Frenchman's arrival
Actions: Emotional›Embarrasment | 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
Actions: Interaction, Social›Elopement | Interaction, Social›Marriage
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Relationships: Marital›Civil marriage | Marital›Husband-wife
Actions: Domestic›Child care
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Life as repetition
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Natural›Woods | Place›Quarters | Place›Road | Time of Day›Evening | Time of Year›Sunday
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Sensing the past
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation
Cultural Issues: Race›Hierarchical
Themes and Motifs: Past›Repetition
Relationships: Familial›Widower | Friendship›Male-male relationship
Cultural Issues: Ritual
Cultural Issues: Law›Grand jury | Law›Making a case
Themes and Motifs: Past›As explanatory
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children
Themes and Motifs: Past›Freedom from it
Actions: Violent›Animal abuse
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›And an animal | Past›Past in present
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Smoking habit
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Confusion | Past›Family history
Actions: Economic›Indebtedness
Cultural Issues: Government›Taxes, local
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Actions: Mental›Uncertainty
Themes and Motifs: Past›Freedom from it
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Themes and Motifs: Death›Corpse | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Houston murdered
Environment: Time of Day›Pre-dawn | Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Hunting›Turkey hunting | Verbal›Listen
Cultural Issues: Race›Chickasaw | Race›Mixed race
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Animals›Turkey | Past›Old days | Story-telling
Relationships: Ancestral
Cultural Issues: Economy›Property | Law›Legal document
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Values›Moral authority
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Mysterious | Past›Old days
Relationships: Friendship›Racial
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Class›Class consciousness | Food›Ice-cream | Health and Illness›Drugs
Themes and Motifs: Past›Personal past
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Parentheses
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Story-telling›Audience response
Aesthetics: Interpretation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Year›Winter | Weather›Cold
Actions: Perceptual›Reading / Researching
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Coat | Cultural Identity›North vs South
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hand / Palm | Objects›Letter | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Odor
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›North vs South
Themes and Motifs: Death | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Guinevere
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Past›Past in present
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Emotional›Overwhelmed | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Listening
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Similarity | Past›Repetition
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Ben-Hur
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Letter | Past›Past in present
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Story-telling›Audience response
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Similarity | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Ripple | Figures of Speech›Water | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Past›Past in present
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Design | Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Narrative›Irony
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Past›Repetition | Story-telling
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Auditory›Bells | Time of Day›Morning
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Birds | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Metafictional›Painting
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Environment: Domestic Space›College dormitory | Domestic Space›Garden | Domestic Space›Library | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Perceptual›Looking
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Flowers | Past›Past in present
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Metafictional›Picture/image
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Appearance | Body›Eyes | Body›Thinness | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Clay | Recurring Episodes›Sutpen's arrival
Themes and Motifs: Meaning | Objects›Letter | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Metafictional›Signs | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Year›Confederate Decoration Day
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Confederate uniform | Clothes›Dress | Cultural Identity›Lost Cause
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mockingbird | Community›Decoration Day | Home›Homecoming | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Objects›Medal | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Story-telling›Collaborative
Relationships: Familial | Friendship›College roommate | Romantic›Courtship
Environment: Domestic Space›College dormitory | Domestic Space›Drawing room
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Story-telling›Collaborative | Time›Simultaneity of time
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Domestic Space›College dormitory
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Endurance | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit | Time›Frozen / Static | Time›Simultaneity of time
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Tomb
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Time›Simultaneity of time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Narrative›Collaborative narration
Environment: Domestic Space›College dormitory
Cultural Issues: Clothes›And identity | Cultural Identity›North vs South
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Paradox
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Tomb
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Environment: Olfactory›Camp-fire smoke
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Story-telling | Time›Simultaneity of time
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Walking | Physical›Embrace / hugging
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation | War›Civil War | War›Deprivation
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Reunion
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Shiloh | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Memory›Remembering | Past›Past in present | Time›Simultaneity of time
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Gothic | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Domestic Space›Gate | Olfactory›Decay
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Hatchet | Objects›Umbrella | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Supernatural›Haunted house | Time›Simultaneity of time
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow | Genre Conventions›Gothic
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Auditory›Haunting | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Fall
Actions: Emotional›Frustration | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Storytelling
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Wisteria | Past›Past in present | Supernatural›Ghost
Relationships: Intergenerational
Environment: Domestic Space›College dormitory | Olfactory›Cigar
Actions: Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Verbal›Silence
Environment: Auditory›Howling | Place›Decayed plantation
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Relationships: Familial›Descendants
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Past
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Meaning›Mystery | Past
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Seed | Narrative›Anticipation
Environment: Domestic Space
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Thimble | Past›Past in present | Psychological›Trauma
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery | Time of Day›Dusk
Actions: Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Speculation
Themes and Motifs: Past | Supernatural›Ghost
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Skeleton | Narrative›Anticipation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Objects›Letter | Past›Past in present
Environment: Place›Plantation
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Solitude | Supernatural›Telepathy
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Social›Isolation
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Bird | Figures of Speech›Desert island | Figures of Speech›Shadow
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Time of Day›Noon
Themes and Motifs: Past›And monuments | Supernatural›Folk customs
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Cultural Issues: War›Noncombatant | War›Return from war
Relationships: Romantic›Flirtation | Social›Neighbor
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hunting clothes | Education›Princeton | Hunting and Fishing›Trophy
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Negro spirituals
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Cultural Issues: War›Aerial combat | War›Civil War | War›Return from war | War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Past›Grander than present
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Atmospheric›Spectral | Olfactory›Must
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Lace | War›Civil War | War›Mexican | War›Spanish American War | War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Bible | Objects›Pipe | Objects›Sword | Past›Family history | Past›Relics | Supernatural›Ghost | Time›Past
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Old Bailey
Environment: Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Communication›Writing | Physical›Crawling
Themes and Motifs: Death›Afterlife | Death›In childbirth | Objects›Skull | Past›Family history
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave | Intergenerational›Uncle-nephew
Actions: Verbal›Naming self
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Anglophile
Environment: Time of Day›Dinner
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Domestic labor | Slavery›Fugitive
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Jewelry | Clothes›Sunday clothes | Gender›Southern woman | Slavery›Domestic labor
Relationships: Intergenerational›Grandparent-grandchild | Intergenerational›Uncle-nephew | Romantic›Courtship
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Economic›Accounting | Economic›Bootlegging | Emotional›Defiance
Cultural Issues: Law›Inheritance | Progress›Agricultural
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Cultural Issues: Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Traits | Past›Past in present
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Intergenerational›Uncle-nephew | Romantic›Courtship | Social›Neighbor
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Place›Quarters | Time of Day›Dusk
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Objects›Footprint | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women | Slavery›Fugitive
Aesthetics: Symbolism›Created by characters
Themes and Motifs: Past›Family history | Story-telling›Communal mythology
Actions: Economic›Accounting
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Manumission
Themes and Motifs: Past›Family history
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Uncle-nephew
Actions: Economic›Accounting
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Identity, Cultural›Heritage
Themes and Motifs: Past›Family history | Texts›Ledger
Actions: Hunting›Deer hunting | Movement›Train
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Trophy | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past vs present
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
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wildlife
Environment: Place›Wilderness-civilized boundary
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Roads
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Over time | Past›Past vs present
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party | Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Environment: Natural›Delta | Natural›Delta rivers
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Labor
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past vs present
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Ritual
Themes and Motifs: Past›Grander than present | Story-telling›Hunting
Environment: Natural›Wilderness | Time of Day›Dawn
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Age›Rite of passage | History›Civil War as point of reference | Hunting and Fishing›Knowledge | Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Deer | Memory›Remembering | Past›Grander than present | Recurring Tropes›Killing first deer/marked with blood | Values›Good conduct
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple | Interracial›Indian-white
Cultural Issues: Age›Coming of age | Identity, Cultural›Heritage
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Inheritance of wrong | Past›Historical wrong
Relationships: Familial›Cousin-cousin
Aesthetics: Intertextuality›Faulkner text
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Inheritance›Property | Past›Past in present
Relationships: Familial›Descendants | Familial›Extended family
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Government›Usurpation | Law›Inheritance | Race›Miscegenation
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Familial›Patriarch | Intergenerational›Rivalry
Cultural Issues: Economy›Property | Gender›Widow | Government›Inheritance | Slavery›Naming slaves
Relationships: Familial›Cousin | Familial›Father-son | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Uncle-nephew | Marital›Father in law-son in law
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Actions: Bodily›Eating breakfast | Hunting›Fox hunting | Physical›Pursuit
Relationships: Intergenerational›Uncle-nephew
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Anglophile | Gender›Bachelor | Race›Mixed race | Slavery›Courtship | Slavery›Family | Slavery›Slave trading
Actions: Hunting›Quail hunting
Cultural Issues: Government›Inheritance | Slavery›Big house vs quarters
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Buck and Buddy's experiment
Environment: Time of Day›Midnight
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Past›Old days
Actions: Bodily›Eating breakfast | Physical›Running
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Past›Old days | Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Cultural Issues: Region›Hospitality | Slavery›Quarters
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Tie | Gender›Southern woman
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Intergenerational›Grandparent-grandchild | Intergenerational›Uncle-nephew
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Intergenerational›Uncle-nephew
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Wrong name | Past›Past in present
Environment: Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Morning
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Past›Past vs present
Themes and Motifs: Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Time›Anticipation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Gettysburg | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Public›Town Square
Themes and Motifs: Community›Crowd | Past›Recent past
Themes and Motifs: Character›Work ethic | Past›Yoknapatawpha founders | Values›Truth/Lies
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Environment: Natural›Wilderness
Themes and Motifs: Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Themes and Motifs: Past›Freedom from it | Texts›Novel
Themes and Motifs: Past›Discovering it | Past›Past in present | Texts›Graffiti
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Cincinnatus
Actions: Communication›Graffiti
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Historical
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Texts›Graffiti
Environment: Time of Year›Confederate Decoration Day
Actions: Interaction, Social›Celebration
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Lost Cause
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Monument | Past›And monuments
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Confederate monument unveiled
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Lost Cause | Entertainment›Movies
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Gone With the Wind
Cultural Issues: Government›Local laws and regulations | Progress›Cars
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Jefferson's first car
Actions: Domestic›Cooking | Perceptual›Sensing the past
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›North vs South
Themes and Motifs: Past›Discovering it
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Gone With the Wind
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha | Past›Discovering it
Relationships: Romantic›Love at first sight
Environment: Domestic Space›Apartment
Cultural Issues: Crime›Drug addiction | Crime›Prostitution | Modernity›Interwar years
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Past›Past in present | Values›Truth/Lies
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction
Actions: Mental›Repression | Verbal›Accusatory
Cultural Issues: Crime›Prostitution | Entertainment›Movies | Sexuality›Female
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Relationships: Marital›As atonement
Cultural Issues: Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Intergenerational›Tutor-student
Actions: Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Withholding
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Old vs new selves
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Values›Honor | Values›Truth/Lies
Cultural Issues: Progress›Renovations
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Environment: Natural›Prehistoric forces
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Prehuman landscape | Religion›Deist
Themes and Motifs: Past›Prehistory
Cultural Issues: Progress›Historical | Progress›Ironies of
Themes and Motifs: Exile›Indian Removal | Past›Repetition
Environment: Place›Official office | Time of Day›Wee hours
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Verbal›Withholding
Themes and Motifs: Naming›And caste | Past›As explanatory
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Old Frenchman's arrival
Actions: Verbal›Questioning
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Cosmetics | Morals›Justice | Past›Quest to recover
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Environment: Place›Decayed plantation
Themes and Motifs: Money›Treasure | Past›Past in present
Actions: Agricultural›Incompetent farming
Actions: Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Economy›Rural sales
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Environment: Place›Decayed plantation
Themes and Motifs: Past›Grander than present
Environment: Place›Country store
Cultural Issues: Economy›Labor unions | Economy›Prices | Food›Coca-Cola | Politics›Democrat | Race›Hierarchical
Themes and Motifs: Past›Anxiety about|Resistance to change
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Monument | Past›Past in present
Cultural Issues: Government›As source of money
Themes and Motifs: Naming›As tribute | Objects›Monument | Past›Family history | Values›Family honor
Cultural Issues: Progress›Building structure | Progress›Growing population
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past vs present
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Plantation to housing development
Cultural Issues: Class›Caste system | Economy›Banking | Progress›Cars | Progress›Social | War›Homefront
Themes and Motifs: Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Cultural Issues: History›Founding fathers | Progress›Building structure
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Place name | Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›First settlers arrive
Actions: Bodily›Birth / Being born
Themes and Motifs: Past›As explanatory
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Place›Brothel / Bordello | Place›Saloon | Public›Sidewalk | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Sunday
Actions: Emotional›Homesickness|Longing for home | Verbal›Explaining
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Homesickness|Longing for home | Emotional›Shame | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Insulting | Verbal›Threat | Violent›Slapping
Cultural Issues: Crime›Commercial sexual exploitation | Gender›Sexual Harassment | Law›Sheriff | Race›Hierarchical
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of innocence | Morals›Chivalry | Naming›Nickname | Past›Innocence
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Public›Street | Time of Day›Evening
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Extra-marital
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Satan
Environment: Auditory›Nature | Domestic Space›Boarding house | Domestic Space›Loft | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Laughing | Perceptual›Listening
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Progress›Renaming
Themes and Motifs: Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Relationships: Friendship›Racial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Environment: Otherworldly | Public›Bridge | Time of Day›Morning
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Gasoline | Past›Past in present
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Place›Brothel / Bordello | Public›Alley | Public›Road | Time of Year›Sunday
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Prostitution | War›Civil War | War›Confederate Army | War›Union Army
Themes and Motifs: Past›Grander than present
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Forrest, Nathan Bedford | Narrative›Commentary | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Atmospheric›Streetlamp | Natural›Hills | Time of Year›Christmas
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Objects›Crib / Cradle | Objects›Fire | Past›Personal past | Recurring Tropes›Father said | Recurring Tropes›Hands in pockets
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Familial›Father-son
Environment: Atmospheric›Streetlamp
Actions: Emotional›Cynicism | Emotional›Inferiority
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Class consciousness | Class›Elite | Class›Equality | Class›Gentility | Government›Governor | Religion›Sin | War›Military rank of general
Themes and Motifs: Death›Compared to living | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Morality | Past›Family history | Recurring Tropes›Father said
Relationships: Ancestral | Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Eve | Allusion, Biblical›Garden of Eden | Figures of Speech›Poisoned | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Auditory›Hunting horn | Auditory›Tree / leaves | Auditory›Voices | Natural›Body of water | Olfactory›Kerosene lantern | Place›Graveyard | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Fall | Time of Year›October | Weather›Flood
Actions: Domestic›Cleaning | Emotional›Nostalgia | Hunting›Possum | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Waiting
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Insects lice | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Coal oil | Objects›Hunting horn | Objects›Lamp or lantern | Past›Old days | Past›Personal past | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Recurring Tropes›Thinking of home | Supernatural›Superstitions
Relationships: Interracial›Domestic | Interracial›White-black
Environment: Atmospheric›Wetness | Natural›Dew | Time of Day›Breakfast
Actions: Economic›Gifting | Verbal›Banter / small talk | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drink recipe | Alcohol›Mint julep | Alcohol›Traditional southern drink | Class›Aristocratic posing | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Gender›Southern woman | Region›The South
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Plant mint | Past›Family history
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Intergenerational›Grandparent-grandchild | Interracial›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Old maid | Style›Unfinished sentence
Actions: Emotional›Resentment | Emotional›Self-pity
Themes and Motifs: Death›Death by water / Drowning | Memory›Remembering | Past›Family history
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Quentin's suicide | Tone›Sarcastic
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Olfactory›Camphor
Actions: Physical›Climbing stairs
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Clothes›Stockings | Clothes›Underclothes, female | Health and Illness›Medicine camphor | Religion›Bible
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence of sound | Death›Suicide | Past›Family history | Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Interracial›Master-servant
Environment: Atmospheric›Creepy | Atmospheric›Moonlit | Natural›Woods | Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Eating | Hunting›Possum | Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Food›Cannibalism | Religion›Preacher / Minister | Slavery›Naming slaves | Slavery›Religion
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Death›Corpse | Memory›Remembering | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Renaming | Past›Family history | Past›Old days | Story-telling›Old days | Supernatural›Folklore | Supernatural›Superstitions
Relationships: Interracial›Master-slave
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›June | Time of Year›Thursday
Actions: Mental›Contemplation | Perceptual›Listening
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Curtains | Objects›Watch | Past›Family history | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being in time | Time›Watch
Actions: Interaction, Social›Celebration | Movement›Marching | Verbal›Conversation | Work
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hat, stovepipe | Clothes›Uniform | History›Civil War | History›Civil War consequences | Prejudice›Racism | Ritual›Birthday | Ritual›Commemoration | Slavery›Abolition | War›Civil War | War›Grand Army of the Republic / G.A.R.
Themes and Motifs: Character›Laziness | Community›Crowd | Community›Decoration Day | Community›Parade | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Cigar | Objects›Flag | Past›Family history
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate | Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Interracial›White-black
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold | Auditory›Bells | Natural›Mountains | Natural›Mud | Natural›Sky | Public›School | Public›Town Square | Public›Train Station/Train depot | Time of Year›Christmas | Time of Year›December | Time of Year›New Year
Actions: Economic›Gifting | Emotional›Waiting | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Train | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Passing from sight
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Clothes›Blanket | Clothes›Pants | Education›Primary school | Entertainment›Fireworks | Food›Candy | Health and Illness›Gastrointestinal discomfort | Materialism›Machinery or mechanical references | Prejudice›Infantilizing of blacks | Prejudice›White supremacy | Race›Friendly interaction | Race›Racial consciousness | Race›Uncle as term for black man | Race›White race | Ritual›Christmas gift game | Ritual›Christmas holiday traditions | Technology›Steam locomotive
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Body›Stomach/belly | Character›Childlike | Character›Reliability | Home›Homebound | Memory›Remembering | Money›Quarter coin | Objects›Toys | Objects›Wagon | Objects›Windows | Past›Personal past | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Recurring Tropes›Thinking of home | Time›Frozen / Static
Relationships: Interracial›White-black | Social›Paternalism
Environment: Auditory›Bells | Auditory›Clock chiming | Natural›Dirt / Earth | Public›School | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Emotional›Scolding | Interaction, Private›Teacher-student | Interaction, Social›Teacher-class of students | Mental›Counting | Mental›Day-dreaming | Mental›Failing / Failure | Mental›Inattentativeness | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Silence
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Education›Primary school | Health and Illness›Gastrointestinal discomfort | History›Explorers
Themes and Motifs: Body›Brain / mind | Body›Fingers | Body›Foot / Feet | Body›Hand / Palm | Body›Stomach/belly | Memory›Remembering | Past›Personal past | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Measuring time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Friendship›School classmates | Hierarchical›Teacher-student
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Emotional›Comforting | Emotional›Crying | Movement›Running away | Perceptual›Sensing | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Touching | Verbal›Hushing | Verbal›Punning | Verbal›Stating intent to leave home / run away
Themes and Motifs: Body›Bowels | Memory›Remembering | Naming›Child's name | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Renaming | Past›Personal past | Philosophical›Luck | Recurring Tropes›Door | Supernatural›Signs / Omen | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-son | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Benjamin | Allusion, Biblical›Conflation of several possible sources | Allusion, Biblical›Hell | Allusion, Biblical›Old Testament Book of Isaiah | Allusion, Literary›Hopkins, Gerard Manley | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Windhover" | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Figures of Speech›Oxymoron | Language›Archaic | Language›Biblical | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Recurring Episodes›Benjy's name changed | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Actions: Emotional›Theatricality | Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Clothes›Flannel | Clothes›Khaki | Clothes›Shirt | Clothes›Silk | Gender›Masculinity | Sexuality›Female
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Body›Face | Memory›Remembering | Past›Personal past | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Time›Travel back in time | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Description›Color blue | Description›Color bronze | Description›Color brown | Diction›Misogynistic wording | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Symbolism›Theatrical | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Time of Year›April | Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Communication›Letter | Communication›Marriage announcement | Economic›Banking | Economic›Selling | Emotional›Contempt | Interaction, Private›Domineering | Interaction, Private›Seducing | Interaction, Private›Seeking approval | Interaction, Social›Celebration | Interaction, Social›Marriage | Mental›Distrust | Mental›Learning | Movement›Car | Movement›Limousine | Physical›Driving | Verbal›Bragging | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Joking | Violent›Fighting | Violent›Hitting
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite | Class›Gentility | Class›Pretension | Clothes›Garter | Clothes›Underclothes, female | Cultural Identity›Country vs city | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Education›Harvard | Entertainment›Circus | Gender›Marriage | Region›The South | Sexuality›Incest
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Elephants | Animals›Fleas | Body›Eyes | Body›Face | Body›Teeth | Character›Inherited traits | Character›Reputation | Community›Wedding | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Inheritance›Traits | Memory›Remembering | Money›Stingy with money | Morals›Honor | Objects›Candle | Objects›Eyeglasses | Objects›Flowers | Objects›Windows | Past›Personal past | Psychological›Obsession | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Supernatural›Spell | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time | Values›Honor | Values›Propriety | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Mother-son | Friendship›College roommate | Hierarchical›Master-servant | Marital›Forced | Romantic›Courtship | Romantic›Fiance | Romantic›Flirtation | Sexual | Social›Adversarial | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Harvard University | Allusion, Geographical›South Bend, Indiana | Allusion, Literary›Byron | Allusion, Literary›Poem "Don Juan" | Allusion, Literary›Poem "Marmion" | Allusion, Literary›Scott, Walter | Figures of Speech›Puppy | Figures of Speech›Simile | Genre Conventions›Romance / Romanticism | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Style›Long sentence | Tone›Sarcastic | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Money›Dowry | Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual
Environment: Time of Day›Dinner
Actions: Mental›Realization
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood | Age›Coming of age | Sexuality›Learning about
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Time›Cyclical
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: History›Arrival of whites in Mississippi | Race›Chickasaw | Race›Native American | Religion›Atheism | Religion›Baptist | Religion›Episcopal | Religion›Judaism | Religion›Methodism | Religion›Presbyterian | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Burning a town | Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Recurring Episodes›Battle of Jefferson
Cultural Issues: History›Arrival of whites in Mississippi | Migration›Intraregional migration | Slavery›Indian slave-owners
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | Past›Yoknapatawpha founders | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility | Recurring Tropes›Vanishing | Time›Long passage of time | Time›Travel back in time
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | Past›Family history | Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Hate | Emotional›Relief | Physical›Holding | Verbal›Lying | Verbal›Promising
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Mother-daughter
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person passim throughout section
Themes and Motifs: Past›Yoknapatawpha founders
Environment: Time of Year›December
Actions: Interaction, Social›Ball/dance | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Invitation
Cultural Issues: Politics›City government
Themes and Motifs: Past›Yoknapatawpha founders | Values›Decorum
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Marital›Husband-wife | Social›Snobbery
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor