Themes and Motifs: Body Hair

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"A Rose for Emily", 127 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Gaining weight
Cultural Issues: Age›Premature aging | Gender›Body | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Appearance | Body›Hair | Death
"A Rose for Emily", 129 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Bedroom | Olfactory›Decay
Actions: Violent›Entry
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Formal | Clothes›Uniform | Gender›Clothing | Gender›Men vs women | Gender›Southern woman | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hair | Death›Funeral | Objects›Corpse | Objects›Crystal | Objects›Silver | Objects›Toilet set | Time›Transcended
Relationships: Familial›Cousin | Familial›Kinship
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Face | Genre Conventions›Gothic
"A Rose for Emily", 129 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Olfactory›Decay
Actions: Bodily›Grinning | Perceptual›Looking
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Formal
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hair | Objects›Corpse | Objects›Crystal | Objects›Silver | Objects›Toilet set | Time
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Tomb | Genre Conventions›Gothic | Typography/Orthography›Inscription
"Barn Burning", 4 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Food
Actions: Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Grief | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Threat
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shabby | Law›Acquittal | Law›Testimony
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures | Body›Eyes | Body›Hair | Naming | Values›Truth/Lies
Relationships: Hierarchical | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
"Go Down, Moses", 256 (Event)
Environment: Place›Penitentiary
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Urban | Crime›Murder | Government›Demographics | History›Great Migration
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Deracination | Art›Sculpture | Body›Eyes | Body›Face | Body›Hair | Body›Straightened hair | Texts›Census
Aesthetics: Diction›Accent
"Hair", 139 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Delirium | Health and Illness›Fever | Health and Illness›Medical treatment
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hair | Death
"Hair", 139 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Ritual›Commemoration
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of object | Body›Hair | Death›Burial
"Skirmish at Sartoris", 59 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Devastation | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Flight
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Cross dressing | Gender›Body | Gender›Clothing | Gender›Masculinity | Identity, Personal›Soldier | Slavery›Self-emancipation | War›Death | War›Scorched-earth policy
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Body›Hair | Objects›Silver
Relationships: Familial›Cousin-cousin | Institutional›Military | Romantic›Fiance
"Skirmish at Sartoris", 61 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Gender stereotype | Domestic Space›Race | Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Emotional›Jealousy
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Cross dressing | Gender›Masculinity | Gender›Southern woman | War›Return
Themes and Motifs: Body›Face | Body›Hair | Body›Thinness | Objects›Letter
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Mother-daughter
"Skirmish at Sartoris", 64 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Embarrassment | Interaction, Social›Gossip | Movement›Running away | Work›Sawmilling
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Cross dressing | Gender›Clothing | Gender›Men vs women | Gender›Reproduction
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Body›Hair
Relationships: Intergenerational›Female | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Bird | Narrative›Self-Reflective
"Skirmish at Sartoris", 66 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Cross dressing | Clothes›Dress | Gender›Southern woman | Region›Lost Cause
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hair | Objects›Surrey | Objects›Trunk | Objects›Wagon
Relationships: Marital›Forced
Absalom, Absalom!, 4 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Thunder | Olfactory›Sulfur
Actions: Mental›Envisioning | Movement›Riding | Physical›Carrying | Physical›Clearing land | Physical›Restraining | Physical›Sitting | Work›Architect | Work›Construction
Cultural Issues: Labor›Racialized | Race›Black stereotype | Race›Hierarchical | Race›Racial consciousness | Slavery›Forced migration | Slavery›Racialism
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Art›Painting | Body›Hair | Body›Hand / Palm | Chaos/Order›Disorder | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Objects›Ax | Objects›Shovel | Recurring Tropes›Paradox
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-slave | Interracial›Master-slave
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Description›Character portrait | Description›Stage direction | Description›Tableau | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Bestial imagery | Figures of Speech›Chains | Figures of Speech›Dehumanizing | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Oxymoron | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile | Figures of Speech›Thunderclap | Metafictional›Painting | Recurring Episodes›Architect captured | Recurring Episodes›Sutpen's arrival | Style›Long sentence | Symbolism›Hamsa | Tone›Overwrought
Absalom, Absalom!, 51 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Emotional›Detachment | Emotional›Outrage
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite | War›Deprivation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Appearance›Fatness / obesity | Body›Eyes | Body›Hair | Body›Hand / Palm | Objects›Candelabra | Objects›Damask | Objects›Porcelain
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Temporal projection
Absalom, Absalom!, 51 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Attic | Domestic Space›Dining room
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Interaction, Social›Visiting | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Watching
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Clothes›Coat | Clothes›Dress | Clothes›Sunday clothes | Gender›Women
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Height (tall, short) | Body›Eyes | Body›Hair | Chaos/Order | Memory›Haunted by past | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Supernatural›Monster / monstrous | Time›Anticipation | Values›Propriety
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Physical resemblances
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Ogre | Description›Character portrait | Figures of Speech›Eyes | Figures of Speech›Face | Figures of Speech›Mask | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Narrative›Conjectural narration | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Absalom, Absalom!, 91 (Event)
Actions: Interaction, Private›Conversation | Moral›Corrupting | Verbal›Arguing
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Puritan | Race›White race | Religion›Godhead | Ritual›Initiation | Sexuality›Prostitution | Sexuality›Racialized | Slavery›Commodity | Slavery›Racialism | Slavery›Sex
Themes and Motifs: Body›Blood | Body›Hair | Character›Gambler | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Philosophical›Evolution | Recurring Tropes›Eternal feminine | Values›Decorum | Values›Honor | Values›Propriety
Relationships: Friendship | Interracial›Marriage
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Bird | Figures of Speech›Seed
As I Lay Dying, 39 (Event)
Environment: Public›Road
Actions: Mental›Channeling | Movement›Wagon
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Red necks | Body›Hair | Death
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Flags in the Dust, 10 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Fox hunting | Movement›Horse | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Religion›Methodism | Religion›camp meeting
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hair | Character›Unruliness
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Richard I of England
Flags in the Dust, 101 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Time of Day›Noon | Time of Year›May
Actions: Bodily›Sweating | Communication›Writing | Physical›Burning | Work›Banking
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Deafness
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hair | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Flags in the Dust, 45 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Emotional›Shame | Mental›Inattentativeness | Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hair
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Marital›Husband-wife
Go Down, Moses, 214 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold
Actions: Play›Poker
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Native American | Food›Breakfast | Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Identity, Personal›Hunter | Race›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hair
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee | Description›Character portrait
The Hamlet, 264 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Economic›Renting | Emotional›Jealousy
Cultural Issues: Gender›Femininity
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hair | Objects›Toys
Relationships: Familial›Family as shackle
The Mansion, 122 (Event)
Cultural Issues: War›Return from war | War›World War I
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hair
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person vernacular
The Reivers , 31 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Gender›Marriage
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hair | Death
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
The Sound and the Fury, 136 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Wetness | Auditory›Rain on roof | Domestic Space›Barn | Domestic Space›Garden | Domestic Space›Hogwallow | Natural›Mud | Olfactory›Animal / stable | Olfactory›Hog / pig pen | Weather›Rain
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Jealousy | Emotional›Self-consciousness | Emotional›Shame | Movement›Walking | Physical›Jumping | Physical›Rolling / wallowing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dirty | Clothes›Shirt | Gender›Dirty girl | Health and Illness›Pneumonia | Sexuality›Learning about
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Dirty | Body›Hair | Body›Waist
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Romantic | Sexual
Aesthetics: Description›Color yellow | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Symbolism›Archetype | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Sound and the Fury, 142 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Atmospheric›Sunlight | Olfactory›Tobacco | Public›Town hall
Actions: Communication›Pen and ink well | Legal›Arraign | Legal›Charge/accuse | Legal›Hearing | Legal›Pronouncing sentence | Legal›Record keeping | Legal›Release of prisoner | Movement›Chasing | Movement›Procession | Violent›Kidnapping | Work›Leaving work
Cultural Issues: Education›Harvard | Ethnicity›Italian | Labor | Law›Corruption | Law›Evidence | Law›Eyewitness | Law›Hearing | Law›Justice of the Peace | Law›Legal document | Law›Legal fine | Law›Marshal | Law›Testimony | Nationality›Foreigners | Nationality›Immigration|Immigrants | Nationality›U.S. citizenship | Violence›Mistaken for sexual assault
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hair | Body›Nose | Chaos/Order›Order in a courtroom | Money›Payoff | Objects›Eyeglasses | Objects›Stove | Objects›Table | Recurring Tropes›Door | Texts›Citizenship papers | Texts›Map | Texts›Plat
Relationships: Friendship›College companions / classmates | Friendship›College roommate | Institutional›Police-arrestee | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Harvard University | Description›Color gray | Description›Color yellow | Language›Foreign accent / dialect
The Sound and the Fury, 48 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Atmospheric›Wind | Domestic Space›Backyard | Natural›Grass | Olfactory›Flowers | Olfactory›Weed | Public›Golf course | Weather›Sun | Weather›Sunshine
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Crying | Interaction, Private›Courting | Mental›Misunderstanding | Perceptual›Spying | Perceptual›Surveillance | Physical›Climbing tree | Physical›Searching | Play›Sports Golf | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Complaining | Verbal›Threat
Cultural Issues: Age | Clothes›Tie | Entertainment›Magic trick | Entertainment›Traveling show | Health and Illness›Deafness | Health and Illness›Mute | Ritual›Birthday | Sexuality›Birth control | Sexuality›Promiscuity
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Slipping out at night | Body›Hair | Body›Hand / Palm | Body›Mouth | Futility | Money›Lost | Objects›Condom | Objects›Fence | Objects›Fire | Objects›Flag | Objects›Flowers | Objects›Golf ball | Objects›Jimson weed | Objects›Poison | Objects›Swing | Objects›Windows | Psychological›Learning disability | Recurring Tropes›Sun / Sunlight | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-niece | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Christ | Intertextuality›Faulkner text | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual | Symbolism›Christian | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Sound and the Fury, 61 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Domestic Space›Bedroom | Olfactory›Smelling death | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Smelling | Emotional›Detachment | Mental›Studying | Perceptual›Smelling | Verbal›Complaining
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Religion›Divine judgment
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hair | Body›Hand / Palm | Death›Anticipation of death | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Fire | Objects›Mirror | Objects›Ring | Recurring Tropes›Odor | Time›Abrupt shift in time
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Familial›Husband-wife | Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Mother-son | Familial›Sibling | Hierarchical›Caretaker-mentally challenged person
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Sound and the Fury, 71 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Domestic Space›Library | Olfactory›Smelling trees
Actions: Bodily›Chewing | Emotional›Comforting | Emotional›Crying | Mental›Studying | Moral›Punishment | Perceptual›Reading / Researching | Perceptual›Smelling | Physical›Burning | Physical›Embrace / hugging | Physical›Lifting
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Body›Hair | Body›Mouth | Body›Shoulder | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Chair | Objects›Cushion | Objects›Fire | Objects›Mirror | Objects›Paper | Recurring Tropes›Smelled like trees | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Eliot, T. S. | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Waste Land" | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
The Sound and the Fury, 85 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Atmospheric›Wind | Auditory›Clock ticking | Natural›Body of water | Public›Store window | Time of Year›December
Actions: Emotional›Cynicism | Perceptual›Looking | Work›Jeweler
Cultural Issues: Materialism›Machinery or mechanical references
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Baldness | Body›Hair | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Objects›Watch | Philosophical›Nihilism | Recurring Tropes›Dead time | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Father said | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Supernatural›Folk customs | Supernatural›Superstitions | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being outside of time | Time›Duration of time | Time›Frozen / Static | Time›Measuring time | Time›Timelessness
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Philosopher Bergson, Henri | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Bird | Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Figures of Speech›Drained marsh | Figures of Speech›Gull | Figures of Speech›Simile | Figures of Speech›Water | Narrative›African-American folk sayings
The Sound and the Fury, 91 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Domestic Space›Apartment | Domestic Space›College dormitory | Natural›River | Public›Chapel | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Birth / Being born | Emotional›Stubbornness | Moral›Condoning | Moral›Forgiveness | Movement›Boat | Play›Sports Crew / rowing
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›British nobility | Class›noblesse-oblige | Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Education›Chapel Service (morning prayers) | Gender›Lady | Region›The South | Sexuality›Illegitimacy | Sexuality›Promiscuity
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Appearance›Beautiful/handsome | Body›Eyes | Body›Hair | Character›Regal | Naming›French noble names | Naming›Long name | Time›Return to present time | Values›Virtue
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Hierarchical›Elder-younger
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Cambridge, Massachusetts | Allusion, Geographical›Kentucky | Allusion, Geographical›Mason and Dixon Line | Diction›Racist term | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Town, 230 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Sitting room
Actions: Verbal›Banter / small talk
Cultural Issues: Class›Etiquette | Class›Snopesism | Clothes›Dress | Food›Coffee | Mass Media›Advertising | Mass Media›Magazines
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hair | Objects›Coffee pot | Objects›Furniture
Aesthetics: Language›Foreign language | Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Town, 332 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Spring
Actions: Emotional›Tragic / tragedy
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness | Body›Hair | Death | Futility
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Barnes, Djuna | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Second-person directed | Tone›Elegiac
The Town, 335 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Place›Office
Actions: Emotional›Self-consciousness | Legal›Will | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Law›Inheritance
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hair | Objects›Chair | Objects›Cigarette | Objects›Furniture | Objects›Lamp or lantern | Objects›Pipe | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Secret
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Husband-wife
The Unvanquished, 165 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Firelight | Place›Campsite | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Eating supper | Verbal›Lying | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Boots | Clothes›Coat | Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Shabby | Clothes›Shirt | Health and Illness›Bullet hole | War›Rules of engagement | War›Union Army
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Body›Eyes | Body›Hair | Body›Hand / Palm | Character›Coward
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Alabama | Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee | Typography/Orthography›Italics