Skip to main content
Home
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
Building a Data Map of Characters, Events, and Locations

Main menu

  • Home
  • Instructions
  • Text Keys
  • Location Keys
  • Locations
  • Characters
  • Character Keys
  • Family Keys
  • Events
  • Keywords
  • KW Table
  • KW Instr

Secondary menu

  • Site Updates

You are here

Home » Death

Themes and Motifs: Death Death sentence

Parent Term

  • Death

Sibling Terms

  • Afterlife
  • Ambiguous circumstances
  • And inheritance
  • Animal bear
  • Animal Dog
  • Animal horse
  • Animal mule
  • Anticipation of death
  • Bones
  • Burial
  • Burial society
  • Car accident
  • Child
  • Coffin
  • Compared to living
  • Compared to sleep
  • Corpse
  • Death by water / Drowning
  • Deathbed
  • Denial
  • Disease
  • Dying wish
  • Epitaph
  • Eulogy
  • Execution
  • Funeral
  • Funeral pyre / cremation
  • Future
  • Hearse
  • Imagined
  • In childbirth
  • Indian burial practices
  • Killing oneself slowly
  • Left for dead
  • Like death
  • Liminal
  • Longing for death
  • Moment of
  • Moving a dead body
  • Murder
  • Of parent
  • Plane accident
  • Preparing for death
  • Respect
  • Response to
  • Spousal
  • Suicide
  • Suspicious
  • Wake

Tagged Events

Requiem for a Nun, 38 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Unseen voice | Public›Court | Public›Courtroom | Time of Day›Five o'clock p.m. | Time of Year›November
Actions: Legal›Pronouncing sentence | Verbal›Announcing | Verbal›Praying
Cultural Issues: Law›Trial
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Creating order | Death›Death sentence | Death›Murder
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Narrative›Theatrical effect | Symbolism›Theatrical