Keywords
Term ID |
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Parent | Term | Description |
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3625 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | French noble names | |
1080 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Frogs | |
1932 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Frozen / Static | |
931 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Funeral | |
3717 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Funeral pyre / cremation | |
645 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Furniture | |
374 | Themes and Motifs | (First level term) | Futility | |
844 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Future | |
2051 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Future | |
2403 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Gambler | |
2581 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Gamecock | |
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 |
5595 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Gathering | |
1032 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Gaze | |
3261 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Geese | |
5114 | Themes and Motifs | Determinism | Gendered | |
5382 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Generous | |
4878 | Themes and Motifs | Determinism | Genetic | |
5613 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Gestures | |
4257 | Themes and Motifs | Home | Getting away | |
1883 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Ghost | |
3149 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Gift of money | |
4537 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Giraffe | |
4399 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Glory | |
1201 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Goat | |
1256 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Going fast | |
785 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Going to Texas | |
1997 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Gold | |
2559 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Gold tooth | |
2879 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Golf ball | |
1559 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Good conduct | |
867 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Gossip | |
3173 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Graffiti | |
1555 | Themes and Motifs | Past | Grander than present | |
5573 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Grasshoppers | |
5574 | Themes and Motifs | (First level term) | Grasshoppers | |
1104 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Greed | |
2739 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Greed | |
2117 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Guitar | |
3576 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Gulls | |
1810 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Gun | |
583 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Hair | |
3976 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Hair pigtails | |
5173 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Half dollar | |
2333 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Hammer | |
2677 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Hammock | |
2644 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Hand / Palm | |
2534 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Hand grip | |
2906 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Handcuffs | |
3119 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Handkerchief | |
2474 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Hands in pockets | |
3247 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Harmonica | |
5163 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Harness strap | |
4401 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Hatchet | |
5278 | Themes and Motifs | Memory | Haunted by past | |
2612 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Haunted house | |
2608 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Haunting | |
2878 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Hearse | |
809 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Hearth | |
3687 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Heels | |
955 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Heirloom | |
4460 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Helpless | |
4854 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Hidden | |
3951 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Hips | |
4894 | Themes and Motifs | Past | Historical wrong | |
2643 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Hoe | |
528 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Hog | |
376 | Themes and Motifs | (First level term) | Home | |
1283 | Themes and Motifs | Home | Home as prison | |
2624 | Themes and Motifs | Home | Homebound | |
1863 | Themes and Motifs | Home | Homecoming | |
1957 | Themes and Motifs | Home | Homesickness_Longing for home | |
1224 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Honesty | |
1129 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Honeysuckle | |
864 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Honor | |
1924 | Themes and Motifs | Morals | Honor | |
595 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Horses | |
1522 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Horsewhip | |
3156 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Hot water bottle | |
5098 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Hubris | |
3520 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Human experience | |
1159 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Human nature | |
4544 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Humility | |
4919 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Hunting | |
2451 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Hunting horn | |
1398 | Themes and Motifs | Morals | Hypocrisy | |
4966 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Hypocrisy | |
2476 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Ice | |
5272 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Idealism | |
5439 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Ill-gotten | |
2314 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Illusion | |
3172 | Themes and Motifs | Futility | Illusion of success or victory | |
3222 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Imagination | |
4677 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Imagined | |
2366 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Imitation | |
1832 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Importance of naming |
When a character or narrator draws attention to a name - e.g., the narrator of "Lion" saying as "head bear," Old Ben "deserved a better name." JBP |
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 |
4525 | Themes and Motifs | Home | Improvements | |
3253 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Impulsiveness | |
5023 | Themes and Motifs | Futility | In battle |