Keywords

Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Term Parentsort descending Description
2616 Sensory experience Body
3148 Shoulder Body
3582 Skin Body
1740 Stomach/belly Body
4870 Straightened hair Body
4255 Symbolism Body

This term refers to the body itself being referred to symbolically, as when in AILD Peabody says death is "no more than a single family or tenant moving out of a tenement or a town" or the subadar in "Ad Astra" referring to the body as "a room in the inn . . . where we hide for a little while" (420). CR
2003 Teeth Body
3157 Testicles Body
3952 Thighs Body
653 Thinness Body
4040 Throat Body
2598 Voice Body
3987 Waist Body
2441 Weight Body
2620 Womb Body
1689 Accident Chaos/Order
4286 Balance Chaos/Order
1369 Chaos Chaos/Order
3734 Confusion Chaos/Order
601 Control Chaos/Order
2509 Creating order Chaos/Order
1894 Creation Chaos/Order
503 Disorder Chaos/Order
1779 Divine plan Chaos/Order
4993 Domestic Chaos/Order
4511 Emptiness Chaos/Order
4755 Entropy Chaos/Order
4835 Order Chaos/Order
4048 Order in a courtroom Chaos/Order
1387 Out of ordered place Chaos/Order

This phrase derives from the last words of The Sound and the Fury: "each in its ordered place." It is used when the expected order is radically unsettled, such as when one of the spotted horses goes inside Mrs. Littlejohn's house or the mule gets into Mrs. Hait's yard, and so on. SR
2416 Restoring order Chaos/Order
4646 Social order|disorder Chaos/Order
594 Wildness Chaos/Order
538 Ambitious Character
5519 Amoral Character
2022 Artist Character
5769 Ascetic Character
2865 Assertive Character
2359 Barbarism Character
739 Bargainer Character
3880 Blackguard Character
3457 Bookishness Character
4259 Bravado Character
3668 Bravery Character
3855 Cautious Character
3536 Childlike Character
2266 Comforter Character
4345 Constitutive moment Character
5425 Conventional Character
4362 Conviction Character
3671 Courteous Character
2741 Coward Character
2904 Cruel Character
5534 Curmudgeonly Character
5765 Decent Character
3456 Duty Character
727 Fool|Foolishness Character
2020 Forbearance Character
2403 Gambler Character
5382 Generous Character
2739 Greed Character
4460 Helpless Character
1224 Honesty Character
5098 Hubris Character
4544 Humility Character
4966 Hypocrisy Character
2679 Impotence Character

This entry can refer both to, and beyond, the physiological to denote the inability to achieve an aim, dream or ambition. In Absalom 149.4, Sutpen provides an example; he still has the same ruthless ambition, but can no longer realize it, reduced as he is to tending his store and drinking with Wash Jones. JC
3253 Impulsiveness Character
1187 Independence Character
4917 Indomitable Character
4329 Inexperience Character
2407 Inherited traits Character
647 Innocence Character
2334 Integrity Character
2696 Intelligence Character
2683 Laziness Character
1107 Maturity Character
2389 Naivety Character
2856 Noisiness Character
2258 Opportunism Character
4606 Persistence Character
2332 Personality change Character
2113 Playfulness Character
4604 Popularity Character
2080 Power Character
3641 Precision Character
816 Predatory Character
1235 Pride Character
2648 Principle Character
2368 Provincialism Character
4903 Purity Character
5431 Reactionary Character
2235 Recklessness Character
2308 Regal Character
3537 Reliability Character
2649 Reputation Character
2108 Resolve Character
1226 Responsibility Character
2024 Ruthless Character
3896 Scoundrel Character

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