Keywords

Term ID Vocabularysort descending Parent Term Description
2378 Themes and Motifs Meaning Meaninglessness
2379 Themes and Motifs Animals Ants
2382 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Phantom
2383 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Secret
2384 Themes and Motifs Values Devotion
2385 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Spell
2389 Themes and Motifs Character Naivety
2398 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Eternal feminine
2400 Themes and Motifs Values Decorum
2402 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Evolution
2403 Themes and Motifs Character Gambler
2406 Themes and Motifs Values Providence
2407 Themes and Motifs Character Inherited traits
2408 Themes and Motifs Morals Faith
2411 Themes and Motifs Naming Promotional
2416 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Restoring order
2418 Themes and Motifs Past Yoknapatawpha founders
2421 Themes and Motifs Exile Indian Removal
2427 Themes and Motifs Meaning Interpretation of symbol
2429 Themes and Motifs Community Preserving order
2433 Themes and Motifs Naming Change over time
2441 Themes and Motifs Body Weight
2450 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Loss of object
2451 Themes and Motifs Objects Hunting horn
2452 Themes and Motifs Objects Books
2453 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Searching
2454 Themes and Motifs Objects Keys
2455 Themes and Motifs Objects Locks
2460 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Attempt to find substitute
2462 Themes and Motifs Animals Pony
2464 Themes and Motifs Objects Fox-horn
2466 Themes and Motifs Objects Fan
2467 Themes and Motifs Animals Bumble-bee
2469 Themes and Motifs Objects Bottle
2470 Themes and Motifs Objects Wheel
2473 Themes and Motifs Animals Cows
2474 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Hands in pockets
2476 Themes and Motifs Objects Ice
2486 Themes and Motifs Animals Crickets
2491 Themes and Motifs Body Moustache
2494 Themes and Motifs Character Tenderness
2497 Themes and Motifs Objects Milk
2503 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Arrival in Yoknapatawpha
2509 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Creating order
2511 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Chasing a person

For the many instances when a human being is hunted by others - the slave in "Red Leaves," the architect in Absalom!, Christmas several times in Light in August, Miss Quentin in The Sound and the Fury, etc. SR
2515 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Departing Yoknapatawpha

For characters who leave Yoknapatawpha once and for all in a text - like Bayard Sartoris at the end of Flags in the Dust or Sarty Snopes in "Barn Burning." SR
2518 Themes and Motifs Objects Marble columns
2526 Themes and Motifs Values Durability
2527 Themes and Motifs Time Town clock
2531 Themes and Motifs Animals Pigeons
2532 Themes and Motifs Determinism Fated

Created to describe a situation that seems meant to be, as when Susan Reed seems destined for Hawkshaw's barbershop in "Hair." --LW & BR
2534 Themes and Motifs Objects Hand grip
2536 Themes and Motifs Objects Second-hand

These are items that get passed from person to person and re-purposed. Much of this happens in the Snopes family, but there are also other examples. JB
2537 Themes and Motifs Objects Gasoline

Any time gasoline and fuel is mentioned as an object, not with regard to smell. It occurs a number of times in The Reivers as a fetishistic object of modernity. JB
2553 Themes and Motifs Objects Plow
2559 Themes and Motifs Objects Gold tooth
2570 Themes and Motifs Animals Termites
2581 Themes and Motifs Animals Gamecock
2592 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Solitary
2593 Themes and Motifs Objects Demijohn
2594 Themes and Motifs Objects Tombstone
2598 Themes and Motifs Body Voice
2600 Themes and Motifs Time Permanence
2603 Themes and Motifs Objects Stove polish
2604 Themes and Motifs Meaning Absurdity
2607 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Sound of a gunshot
2608 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Haunting
2609 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Touch
2612 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Haunted house
2613 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Sickness
2615 Themes and Motifs Body Brain / mind
2616 Themes and Motifs Body Sensory experience
2620 Themes and Motifs Body Womb
2622 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Mediation

Used to describe the state of being mediated, especially a relationship where the perceiver looks upon or through a medium. JC
2623 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Fairy-tale
2624 Themes and Motifs Home Homebound
2625 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Echo
2626 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Reality
2629 Themes and Motifs Objects Mirror
2631 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Restoration / rebuilding
2643 Themes and Motifs Objects Hoe
2644 Themes and Motifs Body Hand / Palm
2645 Themes and Motifs Objects Ring
2648 Themes and Motifs Character Principle
2649 Themes and Motifs Character Reputation
2651 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Fixation

The action or process of fixing or being fixed. For instance, In AA!, characters find themselves fixed in place, unable to move beyond something either spatially or conceptually. JC
2653 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Odor
2656 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Leaving
2659 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Mausoleum
2671 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Dream turns to dust
2676 Themes and Motifs Objects Jug
2677 Themes and Motifs Objects Hammock
2679 Themes and Motifs Character Impotence

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
2681 Themes and Motifs Objects Lawnmower
2683 Themes and Motifs Character Laziness
2684 Themes and Motifs Naming Child's name
2696 Themes and Motifs Character Intelligence
2699 Themes and Motifs Death Eulogy
2700 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Eternity
2717 Themes and Motifs Objects Machine gun

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