Keywords
Term ID |
Vocabulary![]() |
Parent | Term | Description |
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3382 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Local legends |
I created this term in response to the local legend of Melisandre Backus Harriss that Chick inherits in "Knight's Gambit."--LW |
3385 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | New car | |
3402 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Cards | |
3407 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Parade | |
3411 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Decoration Day | |
3416 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Blame | |
3417 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Vitality | |
3418 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Stillness | |
3419 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Liminal |
For events in which the boundary between life and death is blurred, such as when Dewey Dell describes her father as looking "like right after the maul hits the steer and it no longer alive and dont yet know that it is dead." EKP |
3426 | Themes and Motifs | Psychological | Disembodiment | |
3428 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Ship | |
3431 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Vase | |
3437 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Populace | |
3444 | Themes and Motifs | Art | Artistic creation | |
3448 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Aloneness |
As in the "aloneness" Addie Bundren seeks to have violated in As I Lay Dying. EKP |
3455 | Themes and Motifs | Past | Anxiety about|Resistance to change | |
3456 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Duty | |
3457 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Bookishness | |
3463 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Routine | |
3476 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Ugliness | |
3477 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Tea | |
3480 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Baldness | |
3502 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Jeweler's loupe / magnifying glass | |
3503 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Nickel coin | |
3506 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Lamp or lantern | |
3509 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Metaphysics | |
3513 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Duration of time | |
3515 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Measuring time | |
3518 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Preparing for death | |
3520 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Human experience | |
3522 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Condition of heaviness | |
3530 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Quarter coin | |
3536 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Childlike | |
3537 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Reliability | |
3539 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Thinking of home | |
3546 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Opinion | |
3554 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Fingers | |
3560 | Themes and Motifs | Past | Personal past | |
3563 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Bowels | |
3573 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Knee | |
3576 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Gulls | |
3582 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Skin | |
3589 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Male body | |
3598 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Conformity | |
3605 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Dirty | |
3621 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Long name | |
3625 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | French noble names | |
3633 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Parcel | |
3640 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Train | |
3641 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Precision | |
3665 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Fleas | |
3668 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Bravery | |
3671 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Courteous | |
3674 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Bill | |
3687 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Heels | |
3700 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Luggage | |
3703 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Columbus Day | |
3713 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Crib / Cradle | |
3717 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Funeral pyre / cremation | |
3721 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Compared to living | |
3722 | Themes and Motifs | Morals | Morality | |
3734 | Themes and Motifs | Chaos/Order | Confusion | |
3737 | Themes and Motifs | Art | Photograph | |
3738 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Apple tree | |
3740 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Eyelashes | |
3746 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Sole owner and proprietor | |
3750 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Flower orchid | |
3762 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Pretending / Feigning | |
3798 | Themes and Motifs | Art | African American music | |
3800 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Cigarette | |
3809 | Themes and Motifs | Morals | Dishonor | |
3814 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Insects lice | |
3815 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Coal oil | |
3820 | Themes and Motifs | Meaning | Paternity | |
3826 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Losing vs never having |
Added for when Quentin makes the observation, about a man who castrated himself, "It's not not having them. It's never to have had them." I believe similar ideas crop up elsewhere in Faulkner - distinguishing between having and losing, or never having in the first place. JBP |
3832 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Unnatural / Contrary to nature | |
3833 | Themes and Motifs | Meaning | Limitations of words / language | |
3841 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Dying wish | |
3842 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Compared to sleep | |
3843 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Insects mayflies | |
3844 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Surface | |
3845 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Depth / deepness | |
3850 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Beyond |
I added this keyword to mark places where a character or text contemplates or imagines exceeding ordinary or usual boundaries. Specifically, this was added for when Quentin starts imagining "a hell beyond that" for him and Caddy. It can be used when "beyond" or a similar construction is used in figurative ways. JBP |
3855 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Cautious | |
3857 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Fish trout | |
3858 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Insect fly | |
3861 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Respect | |
3865 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Prize value | |
3878 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Infinity | |
3880 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Blackguard | |
3882 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Insects bees | |
3883 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Insects butterflies | |
3886 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Progenitive / Self-reproductive | |
3891 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Jaw | |
3896 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Scoundrel | |
3902 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Reduction / summing up | |
3905 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Tedious / tedium | |
3911 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Elm tree | |
3913 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Diminishment / fading | |
3917 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Killing oneself slowly |