Themes and Motifs: Death Coffin

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"Go Down, Moses", 260 (Event)
Environment: Weather›Heat
Actions: Interaction, Social›Concealment | Moral›Lying
Cultural Issues: Crime›Murder | Crime›Numbers | Gender›Traits | Law›Execution | Mass Media›Newspaper | Race›Division | Ritual›Funeral arrangements
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Death›Coffin | Death›Corpse | Determinism›Genetic | Inheritance›Traits | Money›Expenses
Relationships: Intergenerational›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Narrative›Quotation as thought
"Go Down, Moses", 265 (Event)
Environment: Weather›Heat
Actions: Interaction, Social›Mixed-race gathering | Movement›Train
Cultural Issues: Progress›Trains | Ritual›Funeral
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Community›Crowd | Death›Coffin | Death›Funeral | Objects›Flowers
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
"Go Down, Moses", 266 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Ritual›Funeral
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return | Arrivals/Departures›Return home | Death›Coffin | Death›Funeral
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Quotation as thought
"Knight's Gambit", 168 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Class consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Death›Burial | Death›Coffin | Death›Funeral
Absalom, Absalom!, 121 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Death›Coffin | Objects›Photograph | Recurring Tropes›Door
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 121 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Emotional›Calm | Emotional›Despair | Physical›Burial | Physical›Carrying | Verbal›Rebel yell | Work›Carpenter
Themes and Motifs: Body›Face | Death›Coffin | Death›Funeral | Recurring Tropes›Echo | Recurring Tropes›Mediation | Recurring Tropes›Sound of a gunshot
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 151 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Age›Premature aging | Age›Spinsterhood | Clothes›Confederate uniform | Clothes›Glove
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Mules | Appearance | Chaos/Order›Accident | Death›Coffin | Death›Funeral | Objects›Corpse | Objects›Sword
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Demon | Typography/Orthography›Italics
As I Lay Dying, 108 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Mud
Actions: Domestic›Care | Domestic›Cleaning | Movement›Horse | Movement›Wagon
Themes and Motifs: Death›Coffin
As I Lay Dying, 153 (Event)
Environment: Natural›River
Actions: Bodily›Watching | Movement›Swimming | Physical›Running | Verbal›Yelling
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Injured
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Blame | Animals›Horses | Chaos/Order›Accident | Death›Coffin | Death›Death by water / Drowning | Objects›Wagon
As I Lay Dying, 156 (Event)
Environment: Natural›River
Actions: Bodily›Vomiting | Emotional›Recovery | Movement›Swimming | Physical›Repair | Physical›Searching | Play›Betting | Verbal›Arguing | Violent›Violence against animals
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Broken bones | Health and Illness›Injured | Sexuality
Themes and Motifs: Body›Breast | Death›Coffin | Objects›Construction tools | Philosophical›Luck
Aesthetics: Description›Animate/Inanimate | Description›Character portrait | Figures of Speech›Simile
As I Lay Dying, 186 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Decay | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Bodily›Decomposition | Economic›Horse trading | Emotional›Fury | Movement›Horse | Verbal›Disagreeing | Verbal›Yelling
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Buzzards | Death›Coffin | Death›Respect
As I Lay Dying, 194 (Event)
Actions: Mental›Counting | Movement›Wagon | Physical›Protection
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Broken bones | Health and Illness›Medicine
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Buzzards | Character›Forbearance | Death›Coffin | Recurring Tropes›Stillness
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Fish
As I Lay Dying, 218 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Atmospheric›Moonlit | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Bodily›Running | Emotional›Anger | Physical›Burning | Physical›Dragging | Verbal›Shouting | Violent›Arson
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Modernist style
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cows | Animals›Horses | Animals›Mules | Art›Classical Greek | Character›Superhuman strength | Death›Coffin
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Style›Cubism
As I Lay Dying, 223 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Fainting | Physical›Burning
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Infection | Health and Illness›Injury | Health and Illness›Medicine | Race›Behaving/becoming "black"
Themes and Motifs: Death›Coffin | Philosophical›Metaphysics
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
As I Lay Dying, 225 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Emotional›Comforting
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Cats | Death›Coffin
As I Lay Dying, 4 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Carpentry
Actions: Movement›Walking | Work›Carpenter
Themes and Motifs: Death›Coffin
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Onomatopoeia | Typography/Orthography›Spacing
As I Lay Dying, 65 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Sympathy | Physical›Confining
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth
Themes and Motifs: Death›Coffin
As I Lay Dying, 73 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Daybreak | Weather›Rain
Actions: Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Sympathy | Physical›Confining | Physical›Escape from confinement
Themes and Motifs: Death›Coffin | Death›Corpse
As I Lay Dying, 75 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Light | Auditory›Silence | Olfactory›Sulfur | Time of Day›Dawn | Time of Day›Night | Weather›Rain | Weather›Storm
Actions: Work›Carpenter
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Raincoat
Themes and Motifs: Death›Coffin | Objects›Lamp or lantern | Recurring Tropes›Shadows
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Social›Neighbor
As I Lay Dying, 86 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Home | Domestic Space›Porch | Domestic Space›Yard
Actions: Physical›Repair | Work›Carpenter
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Wedding dress | Ritual›Funeral
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Community | Death›Coffin | Death›Funeral
Relationships: Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Metafictional›Picture/image
As I Lay Dying, 97 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Bad smell | Olfactory›Decay
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Fury | Emotional›Impatience | Physical›Carrying | Verbal›Command | Verbal›Cursing
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Disorder | Character›Cautious | Death›Coffin
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Description›Animate/Inanimate
Go Down, Moses, 363 (Event)
Actions: Interaction, Social›Mixed-race gathering
Cultural Issues: Progress›Trains | Ritual›Funeral
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Death›Coffin
The Sound and the Fury, 94 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Voices | Domestic Space›Pasture | Olfactory›Camphor | Olfactory›Oversweet organic
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Jealousy | Emotional›Seduction | Interaction, Social›Marriage | Moral›Deception | Movement›Car | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Confession | Verbal›Flattery | Verbal›Joking | Verbal›Punning
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Salt lick | Class›Pretension | Education›Harvard | Gender›Femininity | Health and Illness›Medicine camphor | Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Sexuality›Incest | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Death›Coffin | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Car | Objects›Honeysuckle | Objects›Trunk | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Recurring Tropes›Twilight
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Mother-daughter | Familial›Mother-son | Romantic›Fiance | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›French Lick, Indiana | Allusion, Geographical›Harvard University | Figures of Speech›Hunting metaphor / imagery | Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Unvanquished, 155 (Event)
Environment: Place›Grave | Place›Graveyard | Weather›Cold | Weather›Rain
Actions: Emotional›Vengeful | Interaction, Social›Mixed-race gathering | Physical›Burial | Verbal›Speech
Cultural Issues: Class›Town v. country/farm | Ritual›Funeral | Slavery›Domestic labor | Slavery›Freedom | War›Union Army
Themes and Motifs: Death›Afterlife | Death›Burial | Death›Coffin | Death›Eulogy | Death›Funeral | Death›Response to | Objects›Gun | Objects›Umbrella
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Social›Neighbor
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Memphis, Tennessee