Themes and Motifs: Philosophical Salvation

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As I Lay Dying, 110 (Event)
Environment: Public›Bridge | Weather›Flood | Weather›Rain
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›Rural | Labor | Land-Use›Agricultural | Religion›Divine judgment
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Memory›Collective memory | Morals›Hypocrisy | Philosophical›Salvation
As I Lay Dying, 166 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Summer
Cultural Issues: Religion›Preacher / Minister | Religion›camp meeting
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Salvation | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit
Relationships: Hierarchical›Pastor-congregant
As I Lay Dying, 166 (Event)
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
Relationships: Marital›Adultery
As I Lay Dying, 176 (Event)
Actions: Moral›Praying | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Religion›Sin
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Salvation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Repetition | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
Requiem for a Nun, 206 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Miscarriage | Moral›Forgiveness | Verbal›Singing
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype: smell | Religion›Religious faith | Sexuality›Promiscuity | Violence›Domestic
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Salvation | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow
Relationships: Interracial›Mammy-child
The Sound and the Fury, 102 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Pasture
Actions: Economic›Selling land | Emotional›Inferiority | Emotional›Joy | Emotional›Pity | Emotional›Selfishness | Moral›Praying | Moral›Punishment | Verbal›Complaining | Verbal›Stating intent to leave home / run away
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Blood | Class›Class consciousness | Class›Gentility | Class›Pretension | Class›Respectability | Gender›Female stereotype | Gender›Lady | Gender›Maternal impulse | Gender›Sexual double standard | Religion›Divine judgment | Religion›Sin
Themes and Motifs: Character›Inherited traits | Character›Reputation | Death›Anticipation of death | Memory›Remembering | Philosophical›Salvation | Philosophical›Suffering | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Values›Sacrifice
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Mother-son | Marital›Husband-wife | Marital›Social respectability
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Benjamin | Allusion, Biblical›Old Testament Book of Psalms | Allusion, Biblical›Valley of the shadow of death | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Style›Bricolage | Style›Long sentence | Style›Unfinished sentence | Typography/Orthography›Capitalization | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Sound and the Fury, 296 (Event)
Environment: Place›Church
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Mental›Realization | Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Religion›African American | Religion›Church service | Religion›Preacher / Minister | Religion›Resurrection | Religion›Sermon | Ritual›Easter
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Salvation | Philosophical›Suffering
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Bible verse on children | Allusion, Biblical›Crucifixion | Allusion, Biblical›Jesus | Allusion, Biblical›Mary | Allusion, Biblical›New Testament Book of Revelation | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Narrative›Epiphany | Symbolism›Blood | Symbolism›Christian
The Town, 359 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Demanding
Cultural Issues: Religion›Rituals and rites
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Salvation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Jesus | Narrative›Parentheses