Themes and Motifs: Death Suicide

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"A Rose for Emily", 126 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Death›Suicide
"Appendix: Compson", 329 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Failing / Failure
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War | War›Military rank of general
Themes and Motifs: Death›Suicide | Futility›Inability | Inheritance›Traits
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Year 1861 | Narrative›Parentheses | Recurring Episodes›General Compson's military record
"Appendix: Compson", 330 (Event)
Environment: Public›Golf course
Actions: Economic›Selling land
Cultural Issues: Class›Social decline
Themes and Motifs: Death›Suicide
Relationships: Marital›Wedding
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Harvard University | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Recurring Episodes›Caddy's wedding | Recurring Episodes›Compsons sell pasture | Recurring Episodes›Quentin's suicide
"Appendix: Compson", 331 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Love | Moral›Punishment
Cultural Issues: Religion›Damnation | Religion›Presbyterian | Religion›Sin | Sexuality›Female | Sexuality›Fetishism | Sexuality›Incest | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Feminine | Body | Death›Death by water / Drowning | Death›Longing for death | Death›Suicide | Morals›Honor | Psychological›Obsession | Values›Family honor | Values›Honor
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›God / Jehovah | Allusion, Biblical›Hell | Recurring Episodes›Quentin's suicide
"Appendix: Compson", 331 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Selling land
Cultural Issues: Education›College | Education›Harvard | Health and Illness›Mental limitations
Themes and Motifs: Death›Suicide | Objects›Fire
Relationships: Ancestral›Generational succession | Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Brother-sister | Marital›Wedding
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Cambridge, Massachusetts | Allusion, Geographical›Carolina | Allusion, Geographical›Harvard University | Allusion, Geographical›Kentucky | Allusion, Historical›Battle of Culloden Moor | Recurring Episodes›Quentin's suicide
"Beyond", 785 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Shock | Mental›Accepting | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Giving advice | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Religion›Atheism
Themes and Motifs: Death›Afterlife | Death›Suicide | Morals›Faith | Philosophical›Metaphysics
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Ingersoll, Robert G. | Allusion, Literary›Paine, Thomas | Allusion, Literary›Voltaire | Language›Ellipsis
"The Hound", 163 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust
Actions: Emotional›Despair | Movement›Car | Violent›Suicide
Cultural Issues: Economy›Market day
Themes and Motifs: Death›Suicide | Futility›Inability | Home›Homecoming
Relationships: Institutional›Police-arrestee
Flags in the Dust, 343 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Oppressive | Weather›Cold | Weather›Rain
Actions: Bodily›Shaking | Emotional›Despair
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Insomnia | Religion›Consolation | War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Death›Afterlife | Death›Suicide | Objects›Shotgun
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Hamlet, 283 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Economy›Advertising
Themes and Motifs: Death›Suicide | Futility›Inability
The Mansion, 161 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Breakfast
Actions: Economic›Scheming
Cultural Issues: Class›Respectability
Themes and Motifs: Character›Bravery | Death›Suicide | Texts›Will
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter | Marital›Adultery
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Mansion, 224 (Event)
Environment: Public›Bank
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Movement›Walking
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Death›Suicide
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Adultery
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Oxford, Mississippi | Recurring Episodes›Eula's medallion unveiled | Recurring Episodes›Flem reaches Jefferson | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual
The Mansion, 234 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth
Themes and Motifs: Death›Suicide
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
The Mansion, 252 (Event)
Environment: Public›Sidewalk
Actions: Communication›Graffiti | Interaction, Social›Spectate
Cultural Issues: History›Communism | History›Pre-World War II issues | History›Spanish Civil War | Prejudice›Anti-Semitism | War›Casualties of war
Themes and Motifs: Character›Reactionary | Death›Of parent | Death›Spousal | Death›Suicide | Texts›Graffiti | Values›Propriety
Aesthetics: Style›Address to reader | Typography/Orthography›All caps | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Mansion, 305 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dangerous | Natural›Wilderness
Actions: Bodily›Dismemberment | Emotional›Fear | Military›Combat | Military›Retreat
Cultural Issues: Prejudice›Anti-Asian | War›Atrocity | War›World War II
Themes and Motifs: Death›Suicide
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Arkansas | Allusion, Geographical›Malaya | Language›Foreign accent / dialect
The Mansion, 354 (Event)
Actions: Violent›Arson | Violent›Destructive behavior
Themes and Motifs: Death›Suicide
The Mansion, 354 (Event)
Actions: Violent›Destructive behavior
Cultural Issues: Crime›Arson
Themes and Motifs: Death›Suicide
The Mansion, 354 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Death›Suicide
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Quentin's suicide
The Sound and the Fury, 116 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Doom | Otherworldly›Hellfire
Actions: Emotional›Horror | Emotional›Shame | Moral›Punishment | Moral›Purification | Physical›Burning | Physical›Pointing
Cultural Issues: Religion›Damnation | Sexuality›Incest
Themes and Motifs: Death›Afterlife | Death›Suicide | Recurring Tropes›Beyond | Recurring Tropes›Solitude
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Gospel of Luke | Allusion, Biblical›Hell | Allusion, Literary›Dante's Inferno | Allusion, Literary›Eliot, T. S. | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" | Figures of Speech›Clean flame | Narrative›Second-person directed | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Sound and the Fury, 152 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Death›Murder | Death›Suicide | Objects›knife
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Symbolism›Sexual symbol | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Sound and the Fury, 152 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Oversweet organic
Actions: Emotional›Fear
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Sensuality
Themes and Motifs: Body›Breast | Death›Murder | Death›Suicide
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Description›Color gray | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Symbolism›Sexual symbol | Typography/Orthography›Capitalization | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Sound and the Fury, 173 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Natural›Body of water | Olfactory›Gasoline
Actions: Bodily›Sleeping
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Death›Anticipation of death | Death›Suicide | Memory›Remembering | Psychological›Peace | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness | Time›Watch
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Moses | Language›Fragments | Language›Latin phrase | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Recurring Episodes›Quentin's suicide | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Sound and the Fury, 174 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Cavern / Grotto
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Communication›Marriage announcement
Cultural Issues: Alcohol
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Community›Wedding | Death›Anticipation of death | Death›Death by water / Drowning | Death›Suicide | Memory›Remembering | Psychological›Peace
Aesthetics: Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Sound and the Fury, 176 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Sexuality›Incest
Themes and Motifs: Death›Suicide | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Memory›Remembering | Philosophical›Nihilism | Time›Permanence | Values›Honor
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Jesus | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Style›Long sentence | Typography/Orthography›Capitalization | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Sound and the Fury, 178 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Auditory›Clock chiming
Actions: Communication›Letter
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Coat | Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Vest
Themes and Motifs: Death›Preparing for death | Death›Suicide | Objects›Gasoline | Objects›Mirror | Objects›Watch | Time›Running out | Values›Propriety
The Sound and the Fury, 280 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Birdsong | Auditory›Cars passing | Auditory›Tree / leaves | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Olfactory›Flowers | Time of Day›Sunday morning
Actions: Mental›Realization | Movement›Hurrying | Physical›Climbing stairs | Verbal›Calling
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Underclothes, female | Gender›Femininity | Religion›Christianity
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Bluejays | Chaos/Order›Emptiness | Death›Suicide | Money›Stolen | Naming›Importance of naming | Objects›Keys | Objects›Pear tree | Recurring Tropes›Door
The Sound and the Fury, 298 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Olfactory›Camphor
Actions: Physical›Climbing stairs
Cultural Issues: Class›Gentility | Clothes›Stockings | Clothes›Underclothes, female | Health and Illness›Medicine camphor | Religion›Bible
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence of sound | Death›Suicide | Past›Family history | Recurring Tropes›Door
Relationships: Interracial›Master-servant
The Sound and the Fury, 311 (Event)
Environment: Public›Train Station/Train depot
Actions: Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Traveling show | Health and Illness›Injury
Themes and Motifs: Body›Blood | Death›Suicide | Money›Stolen | Values›Propriety
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Drawing of an eye
The Sound and the Fury, 80 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Body of water
Actions: Emotional›Cynicism | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Sadness | Mental›Imagining | Mental›Realization | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Seeing | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Religion›Divine judgment | Religion›Resurrection | Sexuality›Conception/Conceiving a child | Sexuality›Preventing or avoiding sex | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Character›Impotence | Death›Bones | Death›Death by water / Drowning | Death›Suicide | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Futility›Illusion of success or victory | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Memory›Forgetting | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Honor | Objects›Flat-iron | Philosophical›Existentialism | Philosophical›Nihilism | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Father said | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Long passage of time | Values›Honor
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Judgment Day | Allusion, Biblical›New Testament Book of Revelation | Allusion, Literary›Coleridge, Samuel | Allusion, Literary›Eliot, T. S. | Allusion, Literary›Poem "Kubla Khan" | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Waste Land" | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Repetition | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Sound and the Fury, 85 (Event)
Environment: Public›Store | Public›Street
Actions: Interaction, Private›Store owner-customer | Mental›Learning | Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shoes | Education›Harvard
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Condition of heaviness | Death›Preparing for death | Death›Suicide | Meaning›Absurdity | Objects›Flat-iron | Philosophical›Human experience | Philosophical›Human nature | Recurring Tropes›Father said
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Latin pastoral poetry | Description›Weight / Burden | Language›Fragments | Language›Latin phrase | Narrative›Foreshadowing
The Sound and the Fury, 90 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Twinkling | Natural›Body of water | Natural›Cavern / Grotto | Natural›River | Natural›Sea / Ocean | Public›Bridge | Public›Drawbridge | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Seeing | Play›Sports Crew / rowing
Cultural Issues: Education›Being well read / erudite | Entertainment›Boat race
Themes and Motifs: Death›Death by water / Drowning | Death›Preparing for death | Death›Suicide | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Flat-iron | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Recurring Tropes›Thinking of home | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow | Supernatural›Folklore | Supernatural›Ghost
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Archimedes | Allusion, Literary›Coleridge, Samuel | Allusion, Literary›Eliot, T. S. | Allusion, Literary›Latin pastoral poetry | Allusion, Literary›Macbeth | Allusion, Literary›Poem "Kubla Khan" | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Waste Land" | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Breath | Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Fragments | Language›Latin phrase | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
The Sound and the Fury, 95 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Ivy
Actions: Emotional›Sadness | Mental›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Shirt | Education›Being well read / erudite | Education›Harvard
Themes and Motifs: Death›Anticipation of death | Death›Death by water / Drowning | Death›Suicide | Objects›Bricks | Philosophical›Nihilism | Philosophical›Suffering | Recurring Tropes›Dead time | Recurring Tropes›Father said | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Harvard University | Diction›"Is" / "Was" to refer to present or past | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Style›Unfinished sentence
The Town, 140 (Event)
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Emotional›Anguish | Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence | Gender›Changing relationships | Gender›Female body | Sexuality›Puberty
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Death›Suicide | Naming
Relationships: Familial›Cohesion | Familial›Mother-daughter
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Helen of Troy | Allusion, Historical›Semiramis | Figures of Speech›Hunting metaphor / imagery | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Narrative›First-person passim | Narrative›Second-person directed | Typography/Orthography›Capitalization
The Town, 352 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Bodily›Waking | Verbal›Revealing | Violent›Shooting | Violent›Suicide
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Coat | Clothes›Glasses | Clothes›Glove | Clothes›Handbag
Themes and Motifs: Death›Suicide
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
The Town, 364 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Planning
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Respectability | Class›Snopesism
Themes and Motifs: Death›Suicide | Objects›Monument | Objects›Photograph
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Figures of Speech›Simile | Figures of Speech›Violent in figurative sense | Narrative›First-person passim throughout section | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Self-correction
The Town, 376 (Event)
Environment: Place›Office
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Tragic / tragedy | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence
Themes and Motifs: Death›Suicide | Meaning›Mystery | Objects›Pipe | Philosophical›Existentialism | Values›Love
The Town, 47 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Domestic Space›Gallery
Actions: Interaction, Social›Gossip | Physical›Repair | Verbal›Apology | Verbal›Cursing
Cultural Issues: Gender›Marriage | Sexuality›Attractiveness
Themes and Motifs: Death›Suicide | Recurring Tropes›Fixation | Recurring Tropes›Gaze
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Familial›Twins | Familial›Uncle-nephew | Sexual›Adultery
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Caesar, Julius | Allusion, Historical›Semiramis | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Narrative›First-person passim | Narrative›Temporal projection