Themes and Motifs: Philosophical Existentialism

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"Beyond", 791 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Contempt | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Grief | Physical›Waiting | Physical›Walking | Verbal›Giving advice | Verbal›Questioning
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Illusion of success or victory | Meaning›Absurdity | Objects›Briefcase | Objects›Cigarette | Objects›Photograph | Philosophical›Existentialism
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Ingersoll, Robert G. | Language›Latin phrase | Symbolism›Christian | Typography/Orthography›Italics
"Beyond", 795 (Event)
Environment: Place›Cemetery
Actions: Emotional›Grief | Emotional›Love | Physical›Reading | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Family history
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal
Themes and Motifs: Death›Compared to living | Death›Response to | Objects›Tombstone | Philosophical›Existentialism
Aesthetics: Language›German | Typography/Orthography›Italics
As I Lay Dying, 100 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Defiance | Emotional›Hope | Emotional›Longing | Emotional›Practicality | Work›Carpenter
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Ambiguous
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Animals›Fish | Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Death›Dying wish | Objects›Toys | Philosophical›Existentialism
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Dissolution | Familial›Kinship
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
As I Lay Dying, 66 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Sawing
Actions: Movement›Walking | Physical›Confining | Verbal›Denial
Cultural Issues: Religion
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Death›Response to | Philosophical›Existentialism | Recurring Tropes›Shadows
As I Lay Dying, 94 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Waiting | Movement›Wagon | Perceptual›Looking | Verbal›Cursing | Verbal›Taunt
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Animals›Buzzards | Death›Response to | Philosophical›Existentialism | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Supernatural›Signs / Omen
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Dissolution | Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait
The Sound and the Fury, 80 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Body of water
Actions: Emotional›Cynicism | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Sadness | Mental›Imagining | Mental›Realization | Mental›Thinking | Perceptual›Seeing | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Religion›Divine judgment | Religion›Resurrection | Sexuality›Conception/Conceiving a child | Sexuality›Preventing or avoiding sex | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Character›Impotence | Death›Bones | Death›Death by water / Drowning | Death›Suicide | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Futility›Illusion of success or victory | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Memory›Forgetting | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Honor | Objects›Flat-iron | Philosophical›Existentialism | Philosophical›Nihilism | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Father said | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Long passage of time | Values›Honor
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Judgment Day | Allusion, Biblical›New Testament Book of Revelation | Allusion, Literary›Coleridge, Samuel | Allusion, Literary›Eliot, T. S. | Allusion, Literary›Poem "Kubla Khan" | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Waste Land" | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Repetition | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Town, 350 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Birdsong
Actions: Emotional›Hope
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Alter ego / other self
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Aloneness | Animals›Mockingbird | Objects›Flowers Dogwood | Philosophical›Existentialism | Recurring Tropes›Dream turns to dust
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Town, 376 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Tragic / tragedy | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Age›Adolescence
Themes and Motifs: Death›Suicide | Meaning›Mystery | Objects›Pipe | Philosophical›Existentialism | Values›Love