Themes and Motifs: Futility Illusion of success or victory

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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
"Knight's Gambit", 205 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Hero worship
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Uniform | War›Royal Air Force
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Illusion of success or victory
"Wash", 546 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Twilight
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness
Themes and Motifs: Character›Opportunism | Futility›Illusion of success or victory | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Lee, Robert Edward | Narrative›Anticipation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
As I Lay Dying, 250 (Event)
Environment: Public›Street
Actions: Physical›Waiting
Cultural Issues: Food›As substitute
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Of loved one | Absence/Loss›Substitute | Animals›Cows | Futility›Illusion of success or victory | Objects›Toys | Psychological›Madness | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Animals compared to people | Language›Profanity | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Spacing
Go Down, Moses, 272 (Event)
Cultural Issues: War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Illusion of success or victory
Sanctuary, 280 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Daybreak | Time of Day›Morning
Actions: Emotional›Confident
Cultural Issues: Gender›And religion
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Illusion of success or victory | Morals›Faith
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dash
The Hamlet, 124 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Glasses
Themes and Motifs: Art›Painting | Community›Alienation | Futility›Illusion of success or victory
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Alma Tadema
The Hamlet, 125 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Lust
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Desire
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›Vs human agency | Futility›Illusion of success or victory
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Sexual goddesses
The Hamlet, 175 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Tragic / tragedy
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Futility›Illusion of success or victory
Aesthetics: Tone›Elegiac
The Hamlet, 231 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Illusion of success or victory
The Hamlet, 233 (Event)
Environment: Place›Bedroom
Actions: Physical›Undressing
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Illusion of success or victory
The Hamlet, 234 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›Fated | Futility›Illusion of success or victory
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
The Hamlet, 353 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Illusion of success or victory
The Hamlet, 4 (Event)
Actions: Movement›Mule | Movement›Wagon | Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | Education›Illiteracy | Progress›As loss | Religion›Bible
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Illusion of success or victory | Objects›Firewood
The Mansion, 24 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Illusion of success or victory
The Sound and the Fury, 104 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Cynicism | Emotional›Frustration
Themes and Motifs: Death›Afterlife | Futility›Illusion of success or victory | Recurring Tropes›Father said | Supernatural›Eternity | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Running out
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Angel | Figures of Speech›Gull | Figures of Speech›Invisible wire | Symbolism›Christian
The Sound and the Fury, 123 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Religion›Religious faith
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Illusion of success or victory | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Faith | Morals›Injustice | Philosophical›Nihilism | Recurring Tropes›Father said | Recurring Tropes›Nothingness
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Capitalization | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Sound and the Fury, 306 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Headache
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Illusion of success or victory
The Sound and the Fury, 76 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Gifting | Emotional›Cynicism | Emotional›Defeat | Verbal›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Futility›Illusion of success or victory | Meaning›Absurdity | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Memory›Forgetting | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Watch | Philosophical›Nihilism | Recurring Tropes›Father said | Recurring Tropes›Mausoleum | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being outside of time
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Classical rhetoric | Language›Latin phrase | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Hyphen | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
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