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Themes and Motifs: Past As explanatory

Parent Term

  • Past

Sibling Terms

  • And monuments
  • Anxiety about|Resistance to change
  • Discovering it
  • Family history
  • Freedom from it
  • Grander than present
  • Historical wrong
  • Innocence
  • Old days
  • Parental
  • Past in present
  • Past vs present
  • Personal past
  • Prehistory
  • Quest to recover
  • Recent past
  • Relics
  • Repetition
  • Traumatic
  • Yoknapatawpha founders

Tagged Events

"Smoke", 15 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Law›Grand jury | Law›Making a case
Themes and Motifs: Past›As explanatory
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children
Requiem for a Nun, 89 (Event)
Environment: Place›Official office | Time of Day›Two o'clock a.m. | Time of Year›March
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Withholding
Cultural Issues: Clothes›And class | Clothes›Coat | Clothes›Fur coat / suit | Clothes›Glove | Clothes›Handbag | Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Suit
Themes and Motifs: Naming›And caste | Objects›Cigarette | Objects›Cigarette lighter | Objects›Furniture | Past›As explanatory
Aesthetics: Description›Stage direction | Narrative›Theatrical effect | Symbolism›Theatrical | Tone›Sarcastic
The Mansion, 7 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Birth / Being born
Themes and Motifs: Past›As explanatory
Aesthetics: Narrative›Origin