Keywords

Term ID Vocabularysort descending Parent Term Description
1812 Themes and Motifs Time Living in the present

Added to describe Boon Hogganbeck at end of "Lion" (and related texts like "The Bear" in GDM) - someone "living in the moment," with no regard at all to the past.
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
2455 Themes and Motifs Objects Locks
3621 Themes and Motifs Naming Long name
2158 Themes and Motifs Time Long passage of time

Perhaps self-evident, but for when a text makes a huge jump in time very quickly -- Zilphia Gant sitting beside the window "for twelve years," for instance. JBP
3270 Themes and Motifs Death Longing for death
1999 Themes and Motifs Money Loot
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
2089 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Loss of animal companion
3132 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Loss of innocence
2450 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Loss of object
2216 Themes and Motifs Money Lost
4368 Themes and Motifs Time Lost time
1583 Themes and Motifs Values Love
2721 Themes and Motifs Texts Love letter
510 Themes and Motifs Values Loyalty
4660 Themes and Motifs Morals Loyalty
2272 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Luck
3700 Themes and Motifs Objects Luggage
1454 Themes and Motifs Money Luxury
2717 Themes and Motifs Objects Machine gun
1310 Themes and Motifs Psychological Madness
4703 Themes and Motifs Texts Magazine
5139 Themes and Motifs Objects Magazine
2249 Themes and Motifs Objects Magnet
3589 Themes and Motifs Body Male body
1807 Themes and Motifs Psychological Manipulation
4044 Themes and Motifs Texts Map
4767 Themes and Motifs Objects Map
2518 Themes and Motifs Objects Marble columns
4278 Themes and Motifs Objects Matchstick
871 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Material
4457 Themes and Motifs Meaning Maternity
1107 Themes and Motifs Character Maturity
2659 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Mausoleum
4289 Themes and Motifs Meaning Maybe as concept
381 Themes and Motifs (First level term) Meaning
5407 Themes and Motifs Money Meaning of
2378 Themes and Motifs Meaning Meaninglessness
3515 Themes and Motifs Time Measuring time
2718 Themes and Motifs Objects Medal
2622 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Mediation

Used to describe the state of being mediated, especially a relationship where the perceiver looks upon or through a medium. JC
460 Themes and Motifs (First level term) Memory
805 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Men
4339 Themes and Motifs Body Mental disability
4118 Themes and Motifs Objects Metal detector
1324 Themes and Motifs Animals Metaphorical elephant
3509 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Metaphysics
4666 Themes and Motifs Animals Mice
3023 Themes and Motifs Texts Military communications
3188 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Military defeat
4626 Themes and Motifs Objects Military equipment
2497 Themes and Motifs Objects Milk
2629 Themes and Motifs Objects Mirror
3160 Themes and Motifs Meaning Misinterpretation
5154 Themes and Motifs Values Misogyny
4148 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Missing
3245 Themes and Motifs Animals Mockingbird
2790 Themes and Motifs Death Moment of
382 Themes and Motifs (First level term) Money
4477 Themes and Motifs Money Money order
1282 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Money|Wealth
1803 Themes and Motifs Objects Monument
1630 Themes and Motifs Values Moral authority
3722 Themes and Motifs Morals Morality
1092 Themes and Motifs (First level term) Morals
1820 Themes and Motifs Animals Mosquitoes
1774 Themes and Motifs Psychological Motivation
5393 Themes and Motifs Texts Mottoes
2491 Themes and Motifs Body Moustache
2995 Themes and Motifs Body Mouth
2271 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Movement
4790 Themes and Motifs Death Moving a dead body
661 Themes and Motifs Animals Mules
2229 Themes and Motifs Death Murder
1934 Themes and Motifs Art Music
4317 Themes and Motifs Objects Musical instrument
852 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Mysterious
877 Themes and Motifs Meaning Mystery
2220 Themes and Motifs Objects Nail
2389 Themes and Motifs Character Naivety
5137 Themes and Motifs Body Naked
2019 Themes and Motifs Appearance Nakedness
1830 Themes and Motifs Animals Named bear Ben
860 Themes and Motifs Animals Named dog Lion
1166 Themes and Motifs Naming Named for historical figure
463 Themes and Motifs (First level term) Naming
3141 Themes and Motifs Objects Napkin
5496 Themes and Motifs Money Need for
4261 Themes and Motifs Home Neglect
3385 Themes and Motifs Objects New car
5524 Themes and Motifs Home New home
1709 Themes and Motifs Texts Newspapers
3503 Themes and Motifs Money Nickel coin
580 Themes and Motifs Naming Nickname
3197 Themes and Motifs Naming Nicknames
2969 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Nihilism
2856 Themes and Motifs Character Noisiness
4197 Themes and Motifs Appearance Nondescript
2100 Themes and Motifs Body Nose

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