Keywords
Term ID |
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Parent | Term | Description |
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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 | |
1349 | Themes and Motifs | Death | In childbirth | |
1561 | Themes and Motifs | Home | In nature | |
1723 | Themes and Motifs | Money | In prospect | |
4641 | Themes and Motifs | Futility | Inability | |
5123 | Themes and Motifs | Inheritance | Income | |
683 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Independence | |
1187 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Independence | |
985 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Indian burial practices | |
846 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Indian name | |
2421 | Themes and Motifs | Exile | Indian Removal | |
4258 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Individualism |
Beyond self-reliance, this concept also folds in ideas of treating people as individuals and a deep skepticism about organizations, institutions, or perspectives that group people together. In its base form it is anti-government, anti-collectivist, anti-group think, but not a full-fledged political doctrine like Libertarianism. JB and EP |
4917 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Indomitable | |
4329 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Inexperience | |
3878 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Infinity | |
1091 | Themes and Motifs | (First level term) | Inheritance | |
4134 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Inheritance | |
4895 | Themes and Motifs | Inheritance | Inheritance of wrong | |
2407 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Inherited traits | |
1245 | Themes and Motifs | Morals | Injustice | |
647 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Innocence | |
2353 | Themes and Motifs | Past | Innocence | |
1609 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Inscrutable |
I added this for "The Old People," 205.3, to reflect the lack of emotion that Sam Fathers shows. LW |
4469 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Insect boll weevil | |
3858 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Insect fly | |
3882 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Insects bees | |
3883 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Insects butterflies | |
4146 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Insects crickets | |
3814 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Insects lice | |
3843 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Insects mayflies | |
5619 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Insects tick | |
1003 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Insight | |
2334 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Integrity | |
2696 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Intelligence | |
5091 | Themes and Motifs | Meaning | Interpretation | |
2427 | Themes and Motifs | Meaning | Interpretation of symbol | |
522 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Intestines | |
3978 | Themes and Motifs | Appearance | Invisibility | |
1681 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Iron box | |
989 | Themes and Motifs | Arrivals/Departures | Jailbreak | |
3891 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Jaw | |
4437 | Themes and Motifs | Art | Jazz music | |
3502 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Jeweler's loupe / magnifying glass | |
3353 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Jewelry Charm | |
2997 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Jimson weed |
Also known as Jamestown weed. -JBP |
2676 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Jug | |
642 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Junk | |
2304 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Just in time |
Whenever a character arrives or performs an action, or event happens "just in time" or in the "nick of time." That is, there is narrative anticipation for time running out, but things are saved at the last moment. JB |
533 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Justice | |
1115 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Justice | |
1137 | Themes and Motifs | Morals | Justice |
When explicitly considered as a moral issue. JW |