Actions: Violent Murder
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Airplane crash
- Animal abuse
- Animal attack on human
- Animal predatory behavior
- Arson
- Asphyxiation
- Assault
- Beating
- Boxing
- Car accident
- Castration
- Dehumanization
- Destructive behavior
- Disfigurement
- Domestic violence
- Dragging
- Entry
- Explosion
- Fighting
- Hitting
- Homicide
- Intent to kill
- Interracial
- Intimidation
- Kicking
- Kidnapping
- Killing
- Killing in war
- Killing of animals
- Lynch mob
- Mutilation
- Poisoning
- Raiding
- Restraining
- Scratching
- Self-mutilation
- Sexual assault
- Shooting
- Slapping
- Stabbing
- Suicide
- Tar-and-feather
- Threatening
- Throwing downstairs
- Vengeance
- Violence against animals
- Whipping
Tagged Events
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Doom becomes chief
Actions: Communication›Letter | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female stereotype | Identity, Personal
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Motivation
Aesthetics: Diction›Misogynistic wording
Cultural Issues: Law›Investigation
Cultural Issues: Economy›Commerce | Economy›Property | Identity, Cultural›Northerner | Law›Incarceration
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Motivation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Commandments | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Barn
Actions: Violent›Disfigurement | Violent›Murder | Work›Performance
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Circus
Themes and Motifs: Death›Corpse | Naming›Change over time | Texts›Newspapers | Texts›Poster
Environment: Domestic Space›Study | Time of Day›Night | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Interaction, Social›Exposure | Violent›Murder | Work›Performance
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Disguise | Entertainment›Circus
Themes and Motifs: Character›Hubris | Psychological›Motivation
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical | Genre Conventions›Parable | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Closet
Actions: Interaction, Social›Competition | Verbal›Rumor | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Race›Passing | Race›Racial identity | Sexuality›Interracial
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Racialized
Relationships: Interracial›Prospective
Cultural Issues: Prejudice›Not caring about race | Sexuality›Conception/Conceiving a child | Sexuality›Extra-marital | Violence›Domestic
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Chaos/Order›Accident
Relationships: Marital›Interracial
Actions: Communication›Newspaper article | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Law›Eyewitness
Environment: Place›Gas station | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Law›Alibi | Law›Eyewitness
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children
Actions: Moral›Cheating | Play›Gambling | Violent›Destructive behavior | Violent›Interracial | Violent›Murder | Violent›Suicide
Cultural Issues: Gender›All-male space
Cultural Issues: Violence›Interracial
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Group Mentality›Mob behavior
Actions: Violent›Animal abuse | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Government›Abdication | Government›Inherited position | Government›Usurpation | Race›Chickasaw
Relationships: Familial›Cousin | Hierarchical›Leader
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Doom becomes chief
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Place›Decayed house
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one
Actions: Interaction, Social›Confrontation | Violent›Murder | Violent›Vengeance | Violent›Whipping
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Wash kills Sutpen
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Violent›Murder | Work›Law enforcement
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Bodily›Dying | Emotional›Despair | Military›Combat | Moral›Renounce | Movement›Return | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Crime›Fratricide | Gender›Widow | Gender›Women | History›Civil War as point of reference | War›Civil War | War›Confederate Army
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Abandonment | Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Absence/Loss›Separation | Character›Fool|Foolishness | Character›Pride | Character›Scoundrel | Death›Deathbed | Determinism›Fated | Home›Estranged | Supernatural›Monster / monstrous
Relationships: Familial›Dissolution | Familial›Father-son | Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Mother-son | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Symbolism›Roman
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Class›Dehumanization | Class›Status, low
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Chaos | Objects›Horsewhip | Objects›Scythe | Time›Duration of time | Time›Timelessness
Relationships: Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Bestial imagery | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Community›Posse | Death›Corpse | Objects›Scythe | Objects›knife
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Wash charges posse
Actions: Movement›Running away | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Crime›Theft|Robbery
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Abandonment
Themes and Motifs: Home›Homecoming | Objects›Gun
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Narrative›Gaps
Actions: Emotional›Waiting | Interaction, Private›Breaking marriage engagement | Military›Service | Movement›Flight | Movement›Running away | Perceptual›Passing from sight | Violent›Homicide | Violent›Killing | Violent›Murder | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Wedding dress | Crime›Murder | Gender›And marriage | Gender›Women | Ritual›Wedding | Violence›Interracial | Violence›Shooting | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Disappearance | Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Arrivals/Departures›Run away | Death | Recurring Tropes›Threshold | Recurring Tropes›Vanishing
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew | Familial›Sibling | Romantic›Engagement | Romantic›Fiance | Social›Assailant-victim
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Henry kills Bon
Environment: Domestic Space›Attic | Domestic Space›House | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Dying | Bodily›Starvation | Communication›Newspaper article | Communication›Writing | Domestic›Feeding | Interaction, Social›Gossip | Physical›Concealing | Physical›Confining | Physical›Hiding | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Gender›Women | Mass Media›Newspaper | Region›Lost Cause | War›Civil War | War›Confederate Army | War›Draft evasion / Draft dodging | War›Homefront
Themes and Motifs: Art›Poetry | Naming›Importance of naming | Past›And monuments | Past›Past in present | Psychological›Will to endure | Texts›Epitaph | Texts›Newspapers | Texts›Poetry | Values›Determination | Values›Devotion | Values›Durability
Relationships: Civic›Pillar of the community | Familial›Father-daughter | Familial›Providing for
Themes and Motifs: Character›Pride | Futility | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit | Values›Loyalty
Relationships: Friendship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Recurring Episodes›Henry kills Bon
Actions: Emotional›Detachment | Mental›Discovery | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Futility
Cultural Issues: History›Carpetbaggers | Politics›And race
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Diction›Rural vernacular
Environment: Atmospheric›Doom | Place›Railroad | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Emotional›Exhaustion | Mental›Fatalism | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Murder
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Recurring Episodes›Colonel Sartoris killed
Cultural Issues: Crime›Theft|Robbery
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Actions: Emotional›Hero worship | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: History›Carpetbaggers
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Typography/Orthography›Dots
Cultural Issues: History›Carpetbaggers
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Tone›Incongruous
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Violent›Murder
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Doom
Relationships: Sexual›Extramarital
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
Actions: Moral›Cheating | Play›Gambling | Violent›Destructive behavior | Violent›Interracial | Violent›Murder | Violent›Suicide
Cultural Issues: Gender›All-male space
Actions: Physical›Pursuit | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Repetition | Violent›Murder
Themes and Motifs: Death›Burial | Death›Moving a dead body | Recurring Tropes›Chasing a person
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Public›Town Square
Cultural Issues: Violence›Interracial
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Place›Jail | Time of Day›Noon | Time of Year›Sunday
Actions: Interaction, Social›Gossip | Legal›Charge/accuse | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Race›Black incarceration
Environment: Public›Street | Time of Day›Night | Time of Day›Sunday
Cultural Issues: Race›Behaving "white" | Race›Behaving/becoming "black"
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past in present
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Diction›Southern dialect
Actions: Economic›Paying | Emotional›Exasperation | Legal›Counsel | Perceptual›Looking | Violent›Lynch mob | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Law›Eyewitness | Law›Miscarriage of justice
Relationships: Commercial›Business partners
Environment: Place›Cabin | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Laughing | Bodily›Sleeping | Mental›Deduction | Moral›Grave-digging or -violating | Violent›Lynch mob | Violent›Murder
Relationships: Friendship›Interracial | Interracial›Child-adult
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Actions: Violent›Kidnapping | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Crime›Kidnapping | Crime›Murder
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Accident
Actions: Verbal›Explaining | Violent›Murder
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Economic›Partnership | Emotional›Fear | Movement›Running away | Verbal›Disagreeing | Violent›Murder | Violent›Shooting
Relationships: Economical›Partnership
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Relationships: Familial›Husband-wife
Actions: Verbal›Accusatory | Violent›Murder
Relationships: Familial›Dysfunctional
Themes and Motifs: Death›Response to | Objects›Pistol
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation
Relationships: Familial›Cousin-cousin
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Atmospheric›Creepy | Atmospheric›Moonlit | Natural›Woods | Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Bodily›Eating | Hunting›Possum | Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Food›Cannibalism | Religion›Preacher / Minister | Slavery›Naming slaves | Slavery›Religion
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Death›Corpse | Memory›Remembering | Naming›Importance of naming | Naming›Renaming | Past›Family history | Past›Old days | Story-telling›Old days | Supernatural›Folklore | Supernatural›Superstitions
Relationships: Interracial›Master-slave
Environment: Place›Jail | Place›Penitentiary
Cultural Issues: Law›Incarceration
Environment: Atmospheric›Gloom | Olfactory›Gunpowder | Time of Day›Twilight | Time of Year›Christmas | Weather›Cold | Weather›Rain
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Death›Corpse | Death›Murder
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Cultural Issues: Gender›Marriage | War›Reconstruction
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Veil | Clothes›Wedding dress | Race›White supremacists
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Confusion | Objects›Pistol
Environment: Domestic Space›Drive | Domestic Space›Hall | Domestic Space›Parlor | Olfactory›Flowers | Time of Day›Midnight
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Community›Tradition | Death›Corpse | Death›Response to | Objects›Pistol
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics