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Themes and Motifs: Character Shrewdness

Parent Term

  • Character

Sibling Terms

  • Ambitious
  • Artist
  • Assertive
  • Barbarism
  • Bargainer
  • Blackguard
  • Bookishness
  • Bravado
  • Bravery
  • Cautious
  • Childlike
  • Comforter
  • Constitutive moment
  • Conviction
  • Courteous
  • Coward
  • Cruel
  • Duty
  • Fool
  • Forbearance
  • Gambler
  • Greed
  • Helpless
  • Honesty
  • 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
  • Pride
  • Principle
  • Provincialism
  • Purity
  • Recklessness
  • Regal
  • Reliability
  • Reputation
  • Resolve
  • Responsibility
  • Ruthless
  • Scoundrel
  • Self-reliance
  • Self-righteousness
  • Sophistication
  • stoic
  • Stubborn
  • Stupid
  • Superhuman strength
  • Swagger
  • Teetotaler
  • Tenderness
  • Trust
  • Unknowable
  • Unruliness
  • Vanity
  • Violent
  • Work ethic

Tagged Events

Absalom, Absalom!, 223 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Character›Shrewdness | Recurring Tropes›Design | Time›Running out
Relationships: Romantic›Engagement
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Figures of Speech›Seed | Typography/Orthography›Italics