Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss Losing vs never having
Description
Added for when Quentin makes the observation, about a man who castrated himself, "It's not not having them. It's never to have had them." I believe similar ideas crop up elsewhere in Faulkner - distinguishing between having and losing, or never having in the first place. JBP
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Abandonment
- Absence
- Absence as disguise
- Absence as loss
- Absence as presence
- Absence of sound
- Aloneness
- Attempt to find substitute
- Blame
- Burning a town
- Capture as loss
- Deracination
- Disappearance
- Kinlessness
- Livestock
- Loss of animal companion
- Loss of innocence
- Loss of object
- Material
- Men
- Military defeat
- Missing
- Money|Wealth
- Of loved one
- Over time
- Quest to recover
- Racial
- Red necks
- Renewal
- Separation
- Substitute
- Vanishing Indian
- War
Tagged Events
Actions: Physical›Throwing | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Castration | Violent›Self-mutilation
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Disgust with sex | Sexuality›Learning about
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Losing vs never having | Body›Blood | Body›Testicles | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Razor
Relationships: Interracial›Domestic | Interracial›White-black
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Actions: Mental›Contemplation | Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Losing vs never having | Recurring Tropes›Shadows