Keywords

Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Term Parentsort ascending Description
5534 Curmudgeonly 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
5252 Self-deception Character
4350 Self-reliance Character
4478 Self-righteousness Character
4365 Shrewdness Character
2358 Sophistication Character
4484 stoic Character
4861 Stubborn Character
4545 Stupid Character
4479 Superhuman strength Character
2088 Swagger Character
1926 Teetotaler Character
2494 Tenderness Character
1227 Trust Character
4752 Unknowable Character
2104 Unruliness Character
2025 Vanity Character
2848 Violent Character
1196 Work ethic Character
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
631 Appearance-plain Body
3145 Arm Body
680 Blood Body
3563 Bowels Body
2615 Brain / mind Body
3998 Breast Body
5578 Buttocks Body
3995 Chins Body
3278 Excrement Body
3740 Eyelashes Body
584 Eyes Body
629 Face Body
3554 Fingers Body
1261 Flesh Body
3301 Foot / Feet Body
3996 Forehead Body
583 Hair Body
2644 Hand / Palm Body

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