Themes and Motifs: Morals Morality

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"A Name for the City", 213 (Event)
Actions: Interaction, Social›Civic discussion
Themes and Motifs: Morals›Morality | Naming›Named for historical figure
Aesthetics: Narrative›Withholding
Absalom, Absalom!, 208 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Morals›Morality | Recurring Tropes›Going to Texas | Values›Conscience
Relationships: Commercial›Business partners | Familial›Father-son in law
Absalom, Absalom!, 218 (Event)
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Clothes›Confederate uniform | Clothes›Dirty
Themes and Motifs: Futility | Morals›Morality | Recurring Tropes›Design | Time›Running out
Relationships: Friendship›Adult friends
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Jericho | Allusion, Geographical›Rome | Figures of Speech›Technological imagery | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 224 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Outrage | Moral›Rationalization | Verbal›Insulting | Verbal›Marriage proposal
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old
Themes and Motifs: Morals›Morality | Time›Running out
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Fertilise / Fertility imagery | Figures of Speech›Technological imagery | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 273 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Combat sounds
Actions: Communication›Lack of communication | Emotional›Anguish | Mental›Thinking | Military›Combat
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Incest | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Morals›Morality
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Absalom, Absalom!, 301 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Hope | Emotional›Outrage
Themes and Motifs: Death›Funeral | Morals›Morality | Objects›Letter
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Go Down, Moses, 328 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Government›Federal laws and regulations | Hunting and Fishing›Rules | Land-Use›Loss of wildlife | Sexuality›Sexual passion
Themes and Motifs: Determinism›Vs human agency | Morals›Morality | Values›Love
Relationships: Intergenerational›Hunting party
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Genesis | Diction›Double entendre | Figures of Speech›Hunting metaphor / imagery | Typography/Orthography›Capitalization
Intruder in the Dust, 204 (Event)
Environment: Public›Street | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Mental›Realization | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Morals›Morality | Values›Good conduct
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Sound and the Fury, 101 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Streetlamp
Actions: Emotional›Cynicism | Emotional›Inferiority
Cultural Issues: Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Class consciousness | Class›Elite | Class›Equality | Class›Gentility | Government›Governor | Religion›Sin | War›Military rank of general
Themes and Motifs: Death›Compared to living | Memory›Remembering | Morals›Morality | Past›Family history | Recurring Tropes›Father said
Relationships: Ancestral | Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Eve | Allusion, Biblical›Garden of Eden | Figures of Speech›Poisoned | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Town, 274 (Event)
Actions: Moral›Rationalization | Verbal›Explaining
Cultural Issues: History›Frontier outlawry | Progress›Frontier to civilization
Themes and Motifs: Character›Work ethic | Money›As motive | Morals›Morality
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Violent in figurative sense
The Town, 321 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women | Religion›Sin
Themes and Motifs: Meaning | Morals›Justice | Morals›Morality | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Time›Long passage of time | Time›Measuring time
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Present-time reference
The Town, 327 (Event)
Environment: Place›Country store
Actions: Economic›Banking | Moral›Purification | Movement›Car | Physical›Eating
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Money | Morals›Morality
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Coolidge, Calvin | Narrative›Chronological enjambment | Narrative›First-person passim throughout section