Keywords
Term ID |
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Parent | Term | Description |
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2975 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Swing | |
2978 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Smelled like trees | |
2980 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Death sentence | |
2995 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Mouth | |
2997 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Jimson weed |
Also known as Jamestown weed. -JBP |
2998 | Themes and Motifs | Arrivals/Departures | Slipping out at night |
I needed a way to convey characters who secretly leave at night for some reason - Miss Quentin in S&F, but there is also Lena Grove and Joe Christmas in Light in August and probably others. Perhaps this could/should be a recurring trope? -JBP |
3000 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Telegram | |
3008 | Themes and Motifs | Past | Prehistory | |
3010 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Alligators | |
3011 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Bison | |
3012 | Themes and Motifs | Exile | Dispossession | |
3013 | Themes and Motifs | Past | Repetition | |
3020 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Social force | |
3023 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Military communications | |
3039 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Booksatchel | |
3043 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Sending someone to Jackson | |
3059 | Themes and Motifs | Past | As explanatory | |
3060 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | And caste | |
3062 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Collaborative | |
3064 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Shadows | |
3065 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Evil | |
3066 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Chair | |
3067 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Dogfennel | |
3068 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Stingy with money | |
3079 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Cushion | |
3092 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Novel | |
3093 | Themes and Motifs | Past | Freedom from it | |
3099 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Anticipation of death | |
3103 | Themes and Motifs | Money | As motive | |
3105 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Scissors | |
3108 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Pencil | |
3112 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Baby bottle | |
3117 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Of loved one | |
3119 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Handkerchief | |
3123 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Sacrifice | |
3124 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Salvation | |
3125 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Redemption | |
3132 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Loss of innocence | |
3133 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Folklore | |
3134 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Superstitions | |
3138 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Bowl | |
3141 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Napkin | |
3143 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Drinking glass | |
3145 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Arm | |
3146 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Paper | |
3148 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Shoulder | |
3149 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Gift of money | |
3156 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Hot water bottle | |
3157 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Testicles | |
3160 | Themes and Motifs | Meaning | Misinterpretation | |
3162 | Themes and Motifs | Futility | Failure to defend honor | |
3165 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Curtains | |
3166 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Being in time |
Added to mark those moments when Quentin Compson explicitly refers to being "in" time -- subject to it, existing within it and unable to stop or evade its progression. This is opposite of course to those moments when he is "outside" of time and all that entails. JBP |
3167 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Being outside of time | |
3172 | Themes and Motifs | Futility | Illusion of success or victory | |
3173 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Graffiti | |
3174 | Themes and Motifs | Past | Discovering it | |
3177 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Bricks | |
3186 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Burning a town | |
3188 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Military defeat | |
3189 | Themes and Motifs | Exile | Post-war | |
3193 | Themes and Motifs | Past | And monuments | |
3197 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Nicknames | |
3209 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Phonograph | |
3214 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Air gun | |
3222 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Imagination | |
3245 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Mockingbird | |
3246 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Folk customs | |
3247 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Harmonica | |
3252 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Airplane | |
3253 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Impulsiveness | |
3255 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Sewing machine | |
3261 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Geese | |
3263 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Bats | |
3267 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Collar box | |
3270 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Longing for death | |
3271 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Little sister | |
3272 | Themes and Motifs | Art | Christian art or iconography | |
3276 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Bed | |
3278 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Excrement | |
3279 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Father said | |
3287 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Flowers Roses | |
3291 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Flowers Milkweed | |
3292 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Flowers Dogwood | |
3293 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Being on time / punctuality | |
3294 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Being late / tardiness | |
3301 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Foot / Feet | |
3303 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Like death | |
3312 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Awareness of time | |
3318 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Sparrow | |
3332 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Death by water / Drowning | |
3333 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Flat-iron | |
3341 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Dresser | |
3346 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Timelessness | |
3350 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Existentialism | |
3353 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Jewelry Charm | |
3354 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Opera glass | |
3357 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Peep-hole viewer / Stanhope | |
3364 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Broken glass | |
3365 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Towel |