Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parentsort descending Term Description
5578 Themes and Motifs Body Buttocks
3995 Themes and Motifs Body Chins
3278 Themes and Motifs Body Excrement
3740 Themes and Motifs Body Eyelashes
584 Themes and Motifs Body Eyes
629 Themes and Motifs Body Face
3554 Themes and Motifs Body Fingers
1261 Themes and Motifs Body Flesh
3301 Themes and Motifs Body Foot / Feet
3996 Themes and Motifs Body Forehead
583 Themes and Motifs Body Hair
2644 Themes and Motifs Body Hand / Palm
3687 Themes and Motifs Body Heels
3951 Themes and Motifs Body Hips
522 Themes and Motifs Body Intestines
3891 Themes and Motifs Body Jaw
3573 Themes and Motifs Body Knee
3992 Themes and Motifs Body Legs
3990 Themes and Motifs Body Lips
3589 Themes and Motifs Body Male body
4339 Themes and Motifs Body Mental disability
2491 Themes and Motifs Body Moustache
2995 Themes and Motifs Body Mouth
5137 Themes and Motifs Body Naked
2100 Themes and Motifs Body Nose
4211 Themes and Motifs Body Physical disability
1401 Themes and Motifs Body Pregnancy
4528 Themes and Motifs Body Prosthetic
2145 Themes and Motifs Body Scar
2616 Themes and Motifs Body Sensory experience
3148 Themes and Motifs Body Shoulder
3582 Themes and Motifs Body Skin
1740 Themes and Motifs Body Stomach/belly
4870 Themes and Motifs Body Straightened hair
4255 Themes and Motifs Body Symbolism

This term refers to the body itself being referred to symbolically, as when in AILD Peabody says death is "no more than a single family or tenant moving out of a tenement or a town" or the subadar in "Ad Astra" referring to the body as "a room in the inn . . . where we hide for a little while" (420). CR
2003 Themes and Motifs Body Teeth
3157 Themes and Motifs Body Testicles
3952 Themes and Motifs Body Thighs
653 Themes and Motifs Body Thinness
4040 Themes and Motifs Body Throat
2598 Themes and Motifs Body Voice
3987 Themes and Motifs Body Waist
2441 Themes and Motifs Body Weight
2620 Themes and Motifs Body Womb
1689 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Accident
4286 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Balance
1369 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Chaos
3734 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Confusion
601 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Control
2509 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Creating order
1894 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Creation
503 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Disorder
1779 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Divine plan
4993 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Domestic
4511 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Emptiness
4755 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Entropy
4835 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Order
4048 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Order in a courtroom
1387 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Out of ordered place

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 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Restoring order
4646 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Social order|disorder
594 Themes and Motifs Chaos/Order Wildness
538 Themes and Motifs Character Ambitious
5519 Themes and Motifs Character Amoral
2022 Themes and Motifs Character Artist
2865 Themes and Motifs Character Assertive
2359 Themes and Motifs Character Barbarism
739 Themes and Motifs Character Bargainer
3880 Themes and Motifs Character Blackguard
3457 Themes and Motifs Character Bookishness
4259 Themes and Motifs Character Bravado
3668 Themes and Motifs Character Bravery
3855 Themes and Motifs Character Cautious
3536 Themes and Motifs Character Childlike
2266 Themes and Motifs Character Comforter
4345 Themes and Motifs Character Constitutive moment
5425 Themes and Motifs Character Conventional
4362 Themes and Motifs Character Conviction
3671 Themes and Motifs Character Courteous
2741 Themes and Motifs Character Coward
2904 Themes and Motifs Character Cruel
5534 Themes and Motifs Character Curmudgeonly
3456 Themes and Motifs Character Duty
727 Themes and Motifs Character Fool|Foolishness
2020 Themes and Motifs Character Forbearance
2403 Themes and Motifs Character Gambler
5382 Themes and Motifs Character Generous
2739 Themes and Motifs Character Greed
4460 Themes and Motifs Character Helpless
1224 Themes and Motifs Character Honesty
5098 Themes and Motifs Character Hubris
4544 Themes and Motifs Character Humility
4966 Themes and Motifs Character Hypocrisy
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
3253 Themes and Motifs Character Impulsiveness
1187 Themes and Motifs Character Independence
4917 Themes and Motifs Character Indomitable
4329 Themes and Motifs Character Inexperience
2407 Themes and Motifs Character Inherited traits
647 Themes and Motifs Character Innocence

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