Keywords

Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Term Parentsort descending Description
2235 Recklessness Character
2258 Opportunism Character
2266 Comforter Character
2308 Regal Character
2332 Personality change Character
2334 Integrity Character
2358 Sophistication Character
2359 Barbarism Character
2368 Provincialism Character
2389 Naivety Character
2403 Gambler Character
2407 Inherited traits Character
2494 Tenderness Character
2648 Principle Character
2649 Reputation 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
2683 Laziness Character
2696 Intelligence Character
2739 Greed Character
2741 Coward Character
2848 Violent Character
2856 Noisiness Character
2865 Assertive Character
2904 Cruel Character
3253 Impulsiveness Character
3456 Duty Character
3457 Bookishness Character
3536 Childlike Character
3537 Reliability Character
3641 Precision Character
3668 Bravery Character
3671 Courteous Character
3855 Cautious Character
3880 Blackguard Character
3896 Scoundrel Character
4259 Bravado Character
4329 Inexperience Character
4345 Constitutive moment Character
4350 Self-reliance Character
4362 Conviction Character
4365 Shrewdness Character
4460 Helpless Character
4478 Self-righteousness Character
4479 Superhuman strength Character
4484 stoic Character
4544 Humility Character
4545 Stupid Character
4604 Popularity Character
4606 Persistence Character
4752 Unknowable Character
4861 Stubborn Character
4903 Purity Character
4917 Indomitable Character
4966 Hypocrisy Character
5098 Hubris Character
5252 Self-deception Character
5382 Generous Character
5425 Conventional Character
5431 Reactionary Character
5519 Amoral Character
5534 Curmudgeonly Character
Vocabulary: Relationships
Term ID Term Parentsort descending Description
1397 child protection Civic
2461 Postal carrier-community Civic
2725 Charity Civic
2754 Voting Civic
2868 Pillar of the community Civic
Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID Term Parentsort descending Description
562 Respectability Class
624 Middle Class
635 Ambition Class
644 Class consciousness Class
1043 Elite Class
1045 Professional Class
1074 Power Class
1174 Working Class
1258 Status, low Class
1357 Snopesism Class
1623 Blood Class
2007 Declasse Class

Whenever a character has suffered a loss of social status, in particular those characters formerly connected with the prominent families of Jefferson. For example, Dan Grinnup who is Louis Grenier's family. J. Burgers
2009 Homelessness Class
2311 Aristocratic posing Class
2338 Birthright Class
2513 White trash Class
2678 Disruption Class
2698 Dehumanization Class
2898 Equality Class

Whenever there is a leveling force that allows different classes to meet on an equal playing field. In this particular example it is the horse race in The Reivers in which class and status don't matter to the observers.
2989 Gentility Class
3300 noblesse-oblige Class
3452 Social mobility Class
3624 British nobility Class
3639 Etiquette Class
3664 Pretension Class
3775 Lower class / riff-raff / canaille Class
4137 Town v. country/farm Class
4248 Class conflict Class
4282 Planter vs farmer Class
4390 Caste system Class
4908 French nobility Class
5600 Social decline Class
549 Apron Clothes
555 Undressing Clothes

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