Keywords
Term ID | Vocabulary | Parent | Term | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|
2620 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Womb | |
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 |
2623 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Fairy-tale | |
2624 | Themes and Motifs | Home | Homebound | |
2625 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Echo | |
2626 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Reality | |
2629 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Mirror | |
2631 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Restoration / rebuilding | |
2643 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Hoe | |
2644 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Hand / Palm | |
2645 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Ring | |
2648 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Principle | |
2649 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Reputation | |
2651 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Fixation |
The action or process of fixing or being fixed. For instance, In AA!, characters find themselves fixed in place, unable to move beyond something either spatially or conceptually. JC |
2653 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Odor | |
2656 | Themes and Motifs | Arrivals/Departures | Leaving | |
2659 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Mausoleum | |
2671 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Dream turns to dust | |
2676 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Jug | |
2677 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Hammock | |
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 |
2681 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Lawnmower | |
2683 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Laziness | |
2684 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Child's name | |
2696 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Intelligence | |
2699 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Eulogy | |
2700 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Eternity | |
2717 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Machine gun | |
2718 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Medal | |
2721 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Love letter | |
2722 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Cats | |
2724 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Carnival | |
2737 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Rake | |
2739 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Greed | |
2741 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Coward | |
2744 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Condom | |
2749 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Anticipation | |
2790 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Moment of | |
2795 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Lion | |
2797 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Saddle | |
2801 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Payoff |
TMT: I added this for the scene in which John Sartoris sends money to the widow of a man whom he killed in The Unvanquished (221), so I don't know whether it will be applicable anywhere else; but nothing else on the list seemed to fit. |
2843 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Wedding ring | |
2846 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Wake |
For gatherings of mourners prior to actual, formal funerals - for instance, in The Sound and the Fury on the occasion of Damuddy's death (which most likely is a wake rather than a funeral). -JBP |
2848 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Violent | |
2856 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Noisiness | |
2857 | Themes and Motifs | Past | Family history | |
2862 | Themes and Motifs | Past | Relics | |
2863 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Skull | |
2865 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Assertive | |
2871 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | Not knowing person or thing's name |
For occasions when a narrative draws attention to a character forgetting or not knowing the word or name of someone or something - Benjy being raised not to know his mother's name in Sound and Fury, for instance, or when Joe Christmas can't think at first of what it is he is eating until he remembers "It's peas." -JBP |
2874 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Working day | |
2876 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Sleeping in same bed |
For when two characters (usually black and white) sleep in the same bed; Benjy with Luster in S&F, Lucas and Henry in GDM, etc. -JBP |
2877 | Themes and Motifs | Supernatural | Signs / Omen | |
2878 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Hearse | |
2879 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Golf ball | |
2880 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Abrupt shift in time |
For when a narrative makes an abrupt or unexpected shift in time - as in Benjy's narrative in S&F. |
2883 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Refinement | |
2904 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Cruel | |
2905 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Bow and arrow | |
2906 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Handcuffs | |
2907 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Return to present time | |
2908 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Toothpick | |
2909 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Buzzards | |
2910 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Animal horse | |
2911 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Bones | |
2931 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Perfume | |
2938 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Conservatism |
Here conservatism is meant as a value and is politically agnostic. It is roughly being used as prudence, common sense, and tradition all wrapped up in one. JB |
2943 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Won | |
2946 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Recovery | |
2950 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Fishing rod | |
2958 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Fish | |
2964 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Series of events experienced as long duration | |
2969 | Themes and Motifs | Philosophical | Nihilism | |
2975 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Swing | |
2978 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Smelled like trees | |
2980 | Themes and Motifs | Death | Death sentence | |
2995 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Mouth | |
2997 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Jimson weed |
Also known as Jamestown weed. -JBP |
2998 | Themes and Motifs | Arrivals/Departures | Slipping out at night |
I needed a way to convey characters who secretly leave at night for some reason - Miss Quentin in S&F, but there is also Lena Grove and Joe Christmas in Light in August and probably others. Perhaps this could/should be a recurring trope? -JBP |
3000 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Telegram | |
3008 | Themes and Motifs | Past | Prehistory | |
3010 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Alligators | |
3011 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Bison | |
3012 | Themes and Motifs | Exile | Dispossession | |
3013 | Themes and Motifs | Past | Repetition | |
3020 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Social force | |
3023 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Military communications | |
3039 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Booksatchel | |
3043 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Sending someone to Jackson | |
3059 | Themes and Motifs | Past | As explanatory | |
3060 | Themes and Motifs | Naming | And caste | |
3062 | Themes and Motifs | Story-telling | Collaborative | |
3064 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Shadows | |
3065 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Evil | |
3066 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Chair | |
3067 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Dogfennel | |
3068 | Themes and Motifs | Money | Stingy with money | |
3079 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Cushion | |
3092 | Themes and Motifs | Texts | Novel | |
3093 | Themes and Motifs | Past | Freedom from it |