Themes and Motifs: Determinism Lack of choice

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"Miss Zilphia Gant", 380 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Waking | Mental›Dreaming | Mental›Imagining
Cultural Issues: Food›As substitute | Sexuality›Frustration
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›Lack of choice | Recurring Tropes›Precognition / Something to happen | Time›Long passage of time
"Smoke", 21 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›Lack of choice | Recurring Tropes›Belatedness
"Two Soldiers", 95 (Event)
Environment: Place›Office
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Economic›Gifting | Emotional›Caring | Emotional›Love | Physical›Kissing | Verbal›Disagreeing | Verbal›Threat
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Farming life | Mass Media›Telephone
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Determinism›Lack of choice | Time
Relationships: Familial›Sibling
Absalom, Absalom!, 12 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Place›Church | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Grief | Interaction, Private›Breaking marriage engagement | Moral›Prohibiting | Moral›Renounce | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Throwing | Verbal›Requesting | Violent›Homicide
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Wedding dress | Crime›Murder | Law›Inheritance refusal | Ritual›Wedding
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Character›Pride | Death›Murder | Determinism›Fated | Determinism›Lack of choice | Inheritance›Hereditary culpability | Inheritance›Inheritance of wrong | Objects›Corpse | Past›Past in present | Past›Traumatic | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Story-telling›Family oral tradition | Supernatural›Monster / monstrous | Values›Family honor
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Dissolution | Familial›Dysfunctional | Familial›Parents-children | Familial›Sister-sister | Marital›Arrangements | Marital›Wedding | Romantic›Death | Romantic›Engagement
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Satan | Figures of Speech›Creditor | Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Language›Anaphora | Narrative›Repetition | Narrative›Summary | Style›List | Tone›Elegiac
Absalom, Absalom!, 41 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Mental›Planning
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability
Themes and Motifs: Character›Ambitious | Determinism›Lack of choice | Objects›Letter | Psychological›Obsession | Recurring Tropes›Doom | Recurring Tropes›Dream | Recurring Tropes›Scandal | Recurring Tropes›Solitude
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements | Marital›Father in law-son in law
Aesthetics: Narrative›Commentary | Narrative›Parentheses | Style›Long sentence | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Absalom, Absalom!, 7 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Familiar | Atmospheric›Haunted | Auditory›Echoing
Actions: Mental›Misunderstanding | Mental›Remembering | Mental›Unaware | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Looking back
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Lost Cause | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Education›Informal | Group Mentality›Community collective | History›Civil War consequences | Region›Lost Cause | Region›The South | War›Defeat
Themes and Motifs: Character›Impotence | Community›Alienation | Determinism›Lack of choice | Futility›Inability | Memory›Collective memory | Memory›Haunted by past | Naming›Importance of naming | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Echo | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Supernatural›Ghost | Time›Long passage of time
Relationships: Social›Isolation
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Medical / Surgical | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Military terminology | Figures of Speech›Personification | Narrative›Background | Narrative›Commentary | Tone›Elegiac
The Hamlet, 163 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Sunday clothes | Gender›Male domination
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›Lack of choice
Relationships: Marital›Forced
The Mansion, 9 (Event)
Environment: Time of Year›Spring
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Husbandry
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cattle | Animals›Cows | Determinism›Lack of choice