Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parentsort ascending Term Description
1982 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Belatedness
3850 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Beyond

I added this keyword to mark places where a character or text contemplates or imagines exceeding ordinary or usual boundaries. Specifically, this was added for when Quentin starts imagining "a hell beyond that" for him and Caddy. It can be used when "beyond" or a similar construction is used in figurative ways. JBP

2511 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Chasing a person

For the many instances when a human being is hunted by others - the slave in "Red Leaves," the architect in Absalom!, Christmas several times in Light in August, Miss Quentin in The Sound and the Fury, etc. SR

2204 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Confederate monument
5338 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Constitutive moment

A moment in a character's story when something happens that changes the arc of his or her life. For example, when in Absalom! Thomas Sutpen is turned away from the front door of that Tidewater plantation. Or in The Mansion, when Houston tells Mink Snopes he still owes the one dollar "pound fee" (28). SR

4236 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Dark house
2343 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Dead time
4349 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Design
2183 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Destiny
2337 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Doom
609 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Door
2023 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Dream
2671 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Dream turns to dust
2625 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Echo
1177 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Endurance
2398 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Eternal feminine
2623 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Fairy-tale
1927 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Fatality
3279 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Father said
875 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Fire on the hearth
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

1032 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Gaze
4399 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Glory
1256 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Going fast
785 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Going to Texas
867 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Gossip
2474 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Hands in pockets
2314 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Illusion
2366 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Imitation
4905 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Killing first deer/marked with blood
4483 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Laughter as sign of madness
1352 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Life as repetition
3271 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Little sister
2659 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Mausoleum
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

1332 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Nothingness
2653 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Odor
1985 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Open secret

Any moment when everyone or many people in a place know something to be true, but they pretend not to know it. For example, everyone knows Linda is not Flem's child, but pretends to not know, just as everyone pretends John Powell brings his gun to work but people pretend he does not. JB

1923 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Paradox
2310 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Performance
2181 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Precognition / Something to happen

For when a character precognitively senses or says that "something" is going to happen to him/her - e.g., Joe Christmas, Miss Zilphia Gant. JBP

2626 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Reality
2946 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Recovery
2631 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Restoration / rebuilding
4398 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Reunion
4367 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Revenge
5329 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Right-of-way

Use to identify scenes where - because of race or class - one person is denied the right-of-way in a public space. The Sutpen children being 'ridden down' by a carriage, or Mink Snopes by Houston, and so on. Includes the related episodoes of Bayard Sartoris almost driving into wagons with Negroes in them. SR

1541 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Scandal
2453 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Searching
2383 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Secret
3043 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Sending someone to Jackson
845 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Sexual power
3064 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Shadows
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

2978 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Smelled like trees
3746 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Sole owner and proprietor
2592 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Solitary
2030 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Solitude
2607 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Sound of a gunshot
3418 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Stillness
1933 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Sun / Sunlight
3539 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Thinking of home
1948 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Threshold
1259 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Tomorrow and tomorrow
2609 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Touch
1950 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Triumph
779 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Trying to say
1024 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Twilight
873 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Upward mobility
4210 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Vanishing
3417 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Vitality
4910 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Year the stars fell

Added to refer to Faulkner's reference in at least two texts to 1833, "the year the stars fell" (in Appendix and in Go Down, Moses). Seems to refer to an actual historical event of a massive meteor shower that year which many interpreted as an omen, possibly even of end of times. Here is one article referencing the event: https://www.ancestry.com/contextux/historicalinsights/night-stars-fell-m.... JBP

5632 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Ab Snopes at De Spain's house
5077 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Ab's war wound
5056 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Architect captured
5046 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Battle of Jefferson
5218 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Bayard and the lost generation
5029 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Bayard avenges Johnny
5034 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Benjy accosts schoolgirl
5611 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Benjy castrated
5204 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Benjy committed
5036 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Benjy's name changed
5053 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Boon shoots Negro
5048 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Buck and Buddy's experiment
5038 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Burying Sartoris silver
5031 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Byron robs bank
5055 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Byron Snopes' children
5074 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Caddy's marriage ends
5073 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Caddy's wedding
5028 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Colonel Sartoris killed
5208 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Compson land acquired
5207 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Compsons sell pasture
5058 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Confederate monument unveiled
5213 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Confederate raid in Memphis
5069 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes De Spain creates camp
5039 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Doom becomes chief
5063 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Driving to Goodwin's
5047 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Etching name on window
5071 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes Eula's medallion unveiled
5042 Aesthetics Recurring Episodes First settlers arrive

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