Themes and Motifs: Character Pride
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Ambitious
- Amoral
- Artist
- Assertive
- Barbarism
- Bargainer
- Blackguard
- Bookishness
- Bravado
- Bravery
- Cautious
- Childlike
- Comforter
- Constitutive moment
- Conventional
- Conviction
- Courteous
- Coward
- Cruel
- Curmudgeonly
- Duty
- Fool|Foolishness
- Forbearance
- Gambler
- Generous
- Greed
- Helpless
- Honesty
- Hubris
- Humility
- Hypocrisy
- Impotence
- Impulsiveness
- Independence
- Indomitable
- Inexperience
- Inherited traits
- Innocence
- Integrity
- Intelligence
- Laziness
- Maturity
- Naivety
- Noisiness
- Opportunism
- Persistence
- Personality change
- Playfulness
- Popularity
- Power
- Precision
- Predatory
- Principle
- Provincialism
- Purity
- Reactionary
- Recklessness
- Regal
- Reliability
- Reputation
- Resolve
- Responsibility
- Ruthless
- Scoundrel
- Self-deception
- Self-reliance
- Self-righteousness
- Shrewdness
- Sophistication
- stoic
- Stubborn
- Stupid
- Superhuman strength
- Swagger
- Teetotaler
- Tenderness
- Trust
- Unknowable
- Unruliness
- Vanity
- Violent
- Work ethic
Tagged Events
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Health and Illness›Mental illness
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Psychological›Madness
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Group Mentality›Community collective
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Glove | Gender›Masculinity | Gender›Men vs women | Group Mentality›Community collective
Actions: Economic›Horse trading
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Interpretation | Narrative›First-person vernacular passim | Tone›Humorous
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Snake | Character›Pride | Character›Provincialism | Character›Swagger | Determinism›Fated
Relationships: Social›Homosocial rivalry
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›God / Jehovah
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Domestic›Food preparation | Economic›Horse trading | Moral›Deception | Physical›Sitting
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Marital›Conflict
Aesthetics: Interpretation
Actions: Economic›Horse trading
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Ownership
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›July | Weather›Heat
Actions: Economic›Horse trading | Economic›Saving money | Verbal›Badgering
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Husbandry
Aesthetics: Interpretation | Narrative›Commentary | Narrative›Disruption
Environment: Domestic Space›Pasture | Time of Day›Afternoon
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules | Character›Pride | Objects›Tobacco | Values›Honor
Relationships: Interracial›Boss-employee
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Tone›Mock-heroic
Environment: Domestic Space›Office | Place›Plantation
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Diminishment / fading | Art›Poetry | Character›Pride | Morals›Honor | Morals›Justice | Texts›Poetry | Values›Courage | Values›Love | Values›Truth/Lies
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Poem: "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Hunting›Teaching | Mental›Reinterpretation
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Knowledge | Hunting and Fishing›Local legend | Hunting and Fishing›Woodcraft | Identity, Cultural›Heritage
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bear | Animals›Dogs | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Character›Humility | Character›Pride | Values›Liberty
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple | Interracial›Indian-white | Interracial›White-black | Interspecies›Man-bear | Interspecies›Man-dog
Actions: Emotional›Pity | Mental›Realization | Mental›Understanding
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named bear Ben | Character›Pride | Values›Honor | Values›Justice | Values›Truth/Lies
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple | Interspecies›Man-bear | Interspecies›Man-dog
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Dying | Emotional›Love | Legal›Marriage | Mental›Speculation | Physical›Burial | Verbal›Storytelling
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Metaphor
Environment: Place›Frenchman's Bend | Time of Day›Morning
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›White trash | Slavery›Slaves vs poor whites | War›Union Army
Relationships: Social›Homosocial
Cultural Issues: Class›White trash | Economy›Property | Slavery›Loyalty | Slavery›Slaves vs poor whites | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Recurring Tropes›Threshold
Relationships: Social›Homosocial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Sherman, William Tecumseh | Diction›Rural vernacular
Actions: Moral›Renounce | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Wedding dress
Relationships: Familial›Dissolution | Marital›Arrangements
Environment: Atmospheric›Chaos
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Emotional›Fury | Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Character›Ruthless | Character›Vanity | Psychological›Madness | Time›Running out
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Mirage | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Figures of Speech›Shell | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Communication›Letter | Military›Retreat
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Father-son | Romantic›Courtship
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Class›Class consciousness | Class›Respectability | Group Mentality›Community collective
Relationships: Marital
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Ritual | Slavery›Loyalty
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Character›Vanity | Community›Wedding | Objects›Pine knots | Values›Dignity
Aesthetics: Diction | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Relationships: Familial›Sister-sister
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Futility | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit | Values›Loyalty
Relationships: Friendship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Death›Dying wish | Philosophical›Human nature | Story-telling›Retelling
Actions: Emotional›Stubbornness
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Emotional›Repentance | Moral›Judgmental | Moral›Praying | Moral›Punishment
Cultural Issues: Religion›Challenge | Religion›Heresy | Religion›Piety | Religion›Sacrilege | Religion›Sin | Sexuality›Conception/Conceiving a child
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Character›Pride | Memory›Remembering | Philosophical›Redemption | Philosophical›Salvation
Environment: Time of Day›Sunset
Actions: Bodily›Dying | Communication›Without words | Emotional›Resentment
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Doctoring
Aesthetics: Description›Animate/Inanimate
Relationships: Friendship›Childhood friends | Interracial›Mammy-child
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Inheritance›Traits
Relationships: Marital›Reconciliation
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Native American | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Labor›Racialized | Slavery›Metaphorical
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Native American | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Identity, Personal›Hunter | Slavery›Miscegenation
Relationships: Intergenerational›Mentor-disciple
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Actions: Interaction, Social›Shopping
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm
Actions: Economic›Horse trading
Actions: Emotional›Cynicism | Emotional›Embarrasment | Emotional›Reassurance | Emotional›Shame | Emotional›Worry | Interaction, Private›Courting | Moral›Deception | Moral›Scheming | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Punning | Verbal›Stating intent to leave home / run away
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Salt lick | Class›Class consciousness | Gender›Marriage
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Death | Memory›Forgetting | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Honor | Values›Honor | Values›Love
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Mother-son | Hierarchical›Master-servant | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›French Lick, Indiana | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Repetition | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Symbolism | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
Environment: Public›Train Station/Train depot
Cultural Issues: Clothes | Entertainment›Traveling show | Health and Illness›Injury
Environment: Auditory›Rain on roof | Time of Day›Supper | Weather›Rain
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Domestic›Feeding | Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Nurturing | Perceptual›Listening
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Food
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Memory›Remembering | Naming›Renaming | Objects›Fire | Philosophical›Luck | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Benjamin | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
Actions: Emotional›Shame | Interaction, Private›Rivalry
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Emotional›Sadness | Violent›Animal attack on human
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife | Romantic›Courtship
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular passim | Narrative›Parentheses