Keywords

Term ID Vocabularysort descending Parent Term Description
5301 Themes and Motifs Money Confederate
5303 Themes and Motifs Animals Possum
5304 Themes and Motifs Animals Owl
5329 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Right-of-way

Use to identify scenes where - because of race or class - one person is denied the right-of-way in a public space. The Sutpen children being 'ridden down' by a carriage, or Mink Snopes by Houston, and so on. Includes the related episodoes of Bayard Sartoris almost driving into wagons with Negroes in them. SR
5330 Themes and Motifs Money Stud fee
5338 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Constitutive moment

A moment in a character's story when something happens that changes the arc of his or her life. For example, when in Absalom! Thomas Sutpen is turned away from the front door of that Tidewater plantation. Or in The Mansion, when Houston tells Mink Snopes he still owes the one dollar "pound fee" (28). SR
5352 Themes and Motifs Death Of parent
5377 Themes and Motifs Art And civilization
5382 Themes and Motifs Character Generous
5393 Themes and Motifs Texts Mottoes
5401 Themes and Motifs Meaning Aesthetic experience
5406 Themes and Motifs Objects Cigarette lighter
5407 Themes and Motifs Money Meaning of
5425 Themes and Motifs Character Conventional
5431 Themes and Motifs Character Reactionary
5439 Themes and Motifs Money Ill-gotten
5446 Themes and Motifs Community Supportive
5486 Themes and Motifs Objects Shell
5491 Themes and Motifs Objects Bomb-sight
5496 Themes and Motifs Money Need for
5498 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Vision
5519 Themes and Motifs Character Amoral
5524 Themes and Motifs Home New home
5529 Themes and Motifs Naming As tribute
5534 Themes and Motifs Character Curmudgeonly
5536 Themes and Motifs Money Scholarship
5540 Themes and Motifs Objects Wheel chair
5559 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Freedom of choice
5573 Themes and Motifs Animals Grasshoppers
5574 Themes and Motifs (First level term) Grasshoppers
5578 Themes and Motifs Body Buttocks
5595 Themes and Motifs Community Gathering
5597 Themes and Motifs Objects License Plate
5613 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Gestures
5619 Themes and Motifs Animals Insects tick
5621 Themes and Motifs Inheritance Renouncing
5635 Themes and Motifs Art Classical Greek
5643 Themes and Motifs Objects Tankard
5645 Themes and Motifs Objects Pitcher
5646 Themes and Motifs Objects Slop jar
5681 Themes and Motifs Objects Kettle
5682 Themes and Motifs Objects Coffee pot
5683 Themes and Motifs Objects Cup
5687 Themes and Motifs Objects Pillow
5692 Themes and Motifs Texts Postcard
5694 Themes and Motifs Death Burial society
5712 Themes and Motifs Texts Satire
5739 Themes and Motifs Inheritance Hereditary culpability
5740 Themes and Motifs Story-telling Family oral tradition
5741 Themes and Motifs Supernatural Monster / monstrous
5742 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Old insult (abiding affront)
5743 Themes and Motifs Past Unknown/concealed past
5748 Themes and Motifs Objects Separator
5755 Themes and Motifs Community Stability

This particular term is in reference to The Hamlet where the Snopeses disrupt the natural order of things, but then the community of Frenchman's Bend returns to its old ways. It is a cycle of disruption and stability, where a return to normalcy is prized above all else. JB
5765 Themes and Motifs Character Decent
5768 Themes and Motifs Objects Perambulator
5769 Themes and Motifs Character Ascetic
5771 Themes and Motifs Community Acceptance
5780 Themes and Motifs Objects Brass knuckles
5784 Themes and Motifs Objects Garland
5803 Themes and Motifs Objects Barrel

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