Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes Revenge
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- "Wait"
- Apotheosis
- Apparition
- Belatedness
- Beyond
- Chasing a person
- Confederate monument
- Constitutive moment
- Dark house
- Dead time
- Design
- Destiny
- Doom
- Door
- Dream
- Dream turns to dust
- Echo
- Endurance
- Escape / Departing through a window
- Eternal feminine
- Fairy-tale
- Fatality
- Father said
- Fire on the hearth
- Fixation
- Gaze
- Glory
- Going fast
- Going to Texas
- Gossip
- Hands in pockets
- Illusion
- Imitation
- Killing first deer/marked with blood
- Laughter as sign of madness
- Life as repetition
- Little sister
- Mausoleum
- Mediation
- Nothingness
- Odor
- Old insult (abiding affront)
- Open secret
- Paradox
- Performance
- Precognition / Something to happen
- Reality
- Recovery
- Restoration / rebuilding
- Reunion
- Right-of-way
- Scandal
- Searching
- Secret
- Sending someone to Jackson
- Sexual power
- Shadows
- Sleeping in same bed
- Smelled like trees
- Sole owner and proprietor
- Solitary
- Solitude
- Sound of a gunshot
- Stillness
- Sun / Sunlight
- Thinking of home
- Threshold
- Tomorrow and tomorrow
- Touch
- Triumph
- Trying to say
- Twilight
- Upward mobility
- Vanishing
- Vitality
- Year the stars fell
Tagged Events
Actions: Interaction, Social›Picnic | Physical›Burning | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Revealing | Violent›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Pistol | Past | Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Class consciousness | Government›Governor | Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Exile›Dispossession | Home | Naming›Place name | Past›Family history | Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Cultural Issues: Race›Subverting a stereotype | Slavery›Violence
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Snake | Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Supernatural›Signs / Omen
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Ringo whips Ab
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Objects›Pistol | Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Cultural Issues: Ritual›Cemetery decorations
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Actions: Violent›Mutilation
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Family role | Ritual›Cemetery decorations
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say | Values›Family honor
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon
Themes and Motifs: Memory | Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Disease
Cultural Issues: Law›Legal document
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Letter | Psychological›Manipulation | Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Gun | Psychological›Manipulation | Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Values›Honor
Relationships: Institutional›Lawyer-client
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Emptying oneself | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Animals›Geese | Character›Duty | Death›Anticipation of death | Death›Liminal | Meaning›Limitations of words / language | Naming | Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Familial›Motherhood | Familial›Parents-children
Actions: Mental›Realization
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Actions: Agricultural›Plowing
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Pound fee | Law›Lawsuit
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Cross dressing
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Cultural Issues: Gender›Male rivalry
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Physical›Pursuit
Cultural Issues: Education›Harvard | Government›Civic officials
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Friendship›College companions / classmates
Environment: Domestic Space›Yard
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Environment: Domestic Space›Library | Domestic Space›Sitting room | Domestic Space›Yard
Actions: Emotional›Outrage | Movement›Sneaking | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Environment: Domestic Space›Sitting room
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Religion›Religious faith
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Familial›Cousin-cousin | Familial›Father-daughter
Actions: Economic›Scheming | Mental›Curiosity | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Shouting | Violent›Threatening
Cultural Issues: Law›Legal advice | Law›Parole
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Public›Road | Time of Day›Ten o'clock p.m.
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Play›Children playing | Verbal›Speculation
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Values›Justice
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Place›Official office
Actions: Agricultural›Farming | Agricultural›Incompetent farming | Communication›Letter | Mental›Thinking | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Education›Illiteracy
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Auditory›Gallop | Domestic Space›Yard
Actions: Economic›Insurance payment | Movement›Mule | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Cursing
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Chaos/Order›Chaos | Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Actions: Emotional›Worry | Interaction, Social›Civic dispute
Themes and Motifs: Money›As symbol | Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Adage | Symbolism›Created by characters
Themes and Motifs: Money›As symbol | Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Recurring Tropes›Scandal
Actions: Emotional›Resignation
Themes and Motifs: Money›Inheritance | Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Father-son in law | Marital›Jealousy
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Chess | Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Actions: Movement›Hiding | Movement›Horse | Movement›Mule | Physical›Pursuit | Violent›Assault | Violent›Whipping
Cultural Issues: Race›Subverting a stereotype
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Snake | Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Supernatural›Signs / Omen
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Objects›Pistol | Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Aesthetics: Description›Eyes
Cultural Issues: Violence›Killing animal
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Hog | Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Time›Awareness of time
Actions: Violent›Fighting | Violent›Killing | Violent›Restraining | Violent›Shooting | Violent›Stabbing
Cultural Issues: Age›Premature aging | Clothes›Confederate uniform | Clothes›Yankee uniform | Slavery›Violence
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Environment: Place›Grave | Time of Day›Dusk | Time of Year›February | Weather›Rain
Cultural Issues: Ritual›Cemetery decorations | Ritual›Commemoration
Themes and Motifs: Death›Afterlife | Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Environment: Olfactory›Rain | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Family role | Ritual›Cemetery decorations
Themes and Motifs: Death›Afterlife | Death›Corpse | Recurring Tropes›Reunion | Recurring Tropes›Revenge | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Rural vernacular