Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes Shadows

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"There Was a Queen", 743 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Dying
Cultural Issues: Race›Black family working for white
Themes and Motifs: Death›Anticipation of death | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Recurring Tropes›Threshold | Recurring Tropes›Twilight
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Figures of Speech›Simile
Absalom, Absalom!, 200 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark | Olfactory›Fire | Place›Plantation
Actions: Physical›Burning
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Revolt
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Shadows
As I Lay Dying, 65 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Interaction, Private›Interrogation | Physical›Confining | Work›Carpenter
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Attempt to find substitute | Recurring Tropes›Shadows
Relationships: Familial
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, 75 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Light | Auditory›Silence | Olfactory›Sulfur | Time of Day›Dawn | Time of Day›Night | Weather›Rain | Weather›Storm
Actions: Work›Carpenter
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Raincoat
Themes and Motifs: Death›Coffin | Objects›Lamp or lantern | Recurring Tropes›Shadows
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Social›Neighbor
Flags in the Dust, 142 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Bodily›Playing music | Bodily›Singing | Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Traditional music | Gender›Women as gentler sex / delicate
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Shadows
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Cerberus | Description›Delayed decoding | Figures of Speech›Simile
Flags in the Dust, 258 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Bodily›Crying | Emotional›Hysteria | Verbal›Promising | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Swearing | Violent›Destructive behavior | Violent›Restraining
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Speed
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Car | Recurring Tropes›Shadows
Requiem for a Nun, 101 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Confession
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Shadows
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual | Recurring Episodes›Tommy's murder | Typography/Orthography›Dash
The Sound and the Fury, 100 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Clock chiming | Public›Post office | Public›Street
Actions: Movement›Walking | Physical›Trampling
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Shadows
The Sound and the Fury, 100 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Bells | Auditory›Clock chiming | Time of Year›Fall | Time of Year›June | Time of Year›Month of brides
Actions: Perceptual›Listening
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Peace | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Awareness of time
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Bride / Bridal | Figures of Speech›Synesthesia
The Sound and the Fury, 104 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Clock ticking | Public›Train Station/Train depot | Time of Day›Lunch
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Movement›Streetcar
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Return | Body›Brain / mind | Body›Stomach/belly | Chaos/Order›Confusion | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Measuring time
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Synesthesia | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Mid-sentence insertion of another thought | Style›Neologism | Typography/Orthography›Italics | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Sound and the Fury, 112 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Natural›Trees | Place›Road
Actions: Bodily›Eating | Movement›Interurban streetcar / trolley | Physical›Trampling
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Advertising | Progress›Smoke stack
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Recurring Tropes›Thinking of home | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being outside of time
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›New England
The Sound and the Fury, 115 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Water | Natural›Body of water | Natural›Lichen / fungi | Natural›River | Natural›Rocks / stones | Natural›Sky | Public›Bridge
Actions: Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Sensing
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Time›Return to present time
Aesthetics: Description›Color gray | Figures of Speech›Stone | Symbolism›Reflection
The Sound and the Fury, 116 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Body of water | Natural›Leaf / leaves | Natural›River | Public›Bridge
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Hiding
Cultural Issues: Religion›Resurrection
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Fish | Animals›Insects mayflies | Appearance›Depth / deepness | Appearance›Surface | Body›Eyes | Death›Afterlife | Death›Anticipation of death | Death›Bones | Death›Compared to sleep | Death›Death by water / Drowning | Objects›Flat-iron | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Recurring Tropes›Stillness
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›God / Jehovah | Allusion, Biblical›Judgment Day | Allusion, Literary›Eliot, T. S. | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Waste Land" | Allusion, Mythical›Narcissus | Figures of Speech›Arrow | Figures of Speech›Death / Dead imagery | Figures of Speech›Simile | Symbolism›Christian
The Sound and the Fury, 117 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Voices | Auditory›Whistle | Natural›Body of water | Natural›Hills | Natural›River | Place›Rural | Public›Bridge | Public›Church steeple | Public›Clock tower | Time of Day›One o'clock p.m.
Actions: Economic›Purchase | Hunting›Fishing | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Interaction, Social›Male gathering | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Fishing contest | Hunting and Fishing›Local legend | Hunting and Fishing›Recreation | Progress›Factory | Progress›Streetcar line
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Fish trout | Money›Prize value | Naming›Not knowing person or thing's name | Objects›Fishing rod | Objects›Watch | Philosophical›Luck | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Recurring Tropes›Solitary | Recurring Tropes›Stillness
Relationships: Intergenerational
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Old Testament Book of Proverbs | Allusion, Geographical›Boston, Massachusetts | Allusion, Geographical›Canada | Description›Color yellow | Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Southern dialect | Figures of Speech›Fire | Figures of Speech›Simile | Figures of Speech›Threads
The Sound and the Fury, 120 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Clock ticking | Auditory›Train sound | Natural›Body of water | Natural›Grass | Natural›Hills | Natural›River | Natural›Trees | Otherworldly›Earth / the world | Place›Road | Place›Rural | Public›Church steeple | Public›Clock tower | Time of Day›Noon
Actions: Bodily›Sitting | Mental›Fantasizing | Mental›Imagining | Movement›Walking | Physical›Trampling | Play›Sports Crew / rowing
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculinity | Religion›Apotheosis
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Infinity | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Recurring Tropes›Stillness | Time›Awareness of time
Relationships: Friendship›College companions / classmates | Social›Homoerotic
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Gull | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Pencil | Figures of Speech›Stencil | Language›Fragments
The Sound and the Fury, 130 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Ammonia | Olfactory›Animal / stable | Place›Livery stable | Public›Post office | Public›Railroad tracks | Public›Street
Actions: Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Italian | Nationality›Foreigners | Prejudice
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Not knowing person or thing's name | Recurring Tropes›Shadows
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child
The Sound and the Fury, 133 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Bees | Domestic Space›Barn | Domestic Space›Gate | Domestic Space›Immigrant neighborhood | Natural›Grass | Natural›Orchard | Natural›Vines | Natural›Weeds | Olfactory›Oversweet organic | Place›Houses | Place›Road | Weather›Rain
Actions: Movement›Running | Perceptual›Looking back | Physical›Escaping
Cultural Issues: Clothes
Themes and Motifs: Home | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Fence | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Recurring Tropes›Thinking of home
Aesthetics: Description›Color pink | Description›Color white | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
The Sound and the Fury, 134 (Event)
Environment: Natural›River | Place›Road | Place›Stone wall
Actions: Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Perceptual›Looking | Physical›Climbing | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dress | Food›Bread
Themes and Motifs: Home | Recurring Tropes›Shadows
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child
The Sound and the Fury, 147 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Birdsong | Domestic Space›Immigrant neighborhood | Natural›Body of water | Natural›Trees | Olfactory›Perfume smell | Place›Stone wall | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Hysteria | Emotional›Laughing | Emotional›Regret | Emotional›Sadness | Emotional›Self-consciousness | Emotional›Shame | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Mental›Suppression / trying not to think | Mental›Thinking | Movement›Car | Movement›Swimming | Perceptual›Passing from sight | Physical›Inaction / Not doing something | Physical›Touching | Physical›Wave / waving | Play›Children playing | Play›Playing in water | Verbal›Chatter
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Wine | Alcohol›Wine hamper | Class›Gentility | Ethnicity›Italian | Food›Bread | Gender›Dirty girl | Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Mass Media›Newspaper | Sexuality›Desire | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Appearance›Dirty | Body›Eyes | Body›Face | Body›Hand / Palm | Body›Knee | Body›Throat | Meaning›Limitations of words / language | Meaning›Meaninglessness | Memory›Remembering | Psychological›Obsession | Recurring Tropes›Gaze | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Values›Propriety
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Friendship›Adult-child | Friendship›College companions / classmates | Social›Homoerotic
Aesthetics: Diction›Neologism | Figures of Speech›Coal dust | Language›Abundance or flow of words | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Style›Unfinished sentence
The Sound and the Fury, 154 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Frogs | Olfactory›Oversweet organic | Olfactory›Rain
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Female
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Shadows
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Romantic›Sexual | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Typography/Orthography›Capitalization | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Sound and the Fury, 157 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Wetness | Domestic Space›Gate | Olfactory›Oversweet organic | Olfactory›Rain
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Emotional›Despair | Emotional›Jealousy | Emotional›Love | Violent›Intent to kill
Themes and Motifs: Morals›Honor | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Values›Evil | Values›Honor
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Description›Color gray | Typography/Orthography›Dialogue with no quotation marks | Typography/Orthography›Lack of Punctuation
The Sound and the Fury, 169 (Event)
Environment: Olfactory›Oversweet organic | Olfactory›Smelling water | Time of Day›Twilight
Actions: Mental›Thinking | Physical›Sleeping
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Insomnia
Themes and Motifs: Meaning›Meaninglessness | Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Shadows
Aesthetics: Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Symbolism›Shadows
The Sound and the Fury, 171 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Clock chiming | Auditory›Clock ticking
Actions: Communication›Letter
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Dirty
Themes and Motifs: Body›Blood | Objects›Gasoline | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Watch
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Christ | Allusion, Biblical›Crucifixion | Diction›Racist term | Symbolism›Blood
The Sound and the Fury, 171 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Clock ticking
Actions: Communication›Letter
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Watch
The Sound and the Fury, 306 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Wind | Olfactory›Gasoline | Weather
Actions: Mental›Fantasizing | Movement›Car | Movement›Driving
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Headache | Health and Illness›Medicine camphor
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Recurring Tropes›Triumph
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Heaven | Allusion, Biblical›Hell | Figures of Speech›Military analogy
The Sound and the Fury, 76 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›June | Time of Year›Thursday
Actions: Mental›Contemplation | Perceptual›Listening
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Curtains | Objects›Watch | Past›Family history | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being in time | Time›Watch
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Joyce, James | Narrative›First-person passim throughout section
The Sound and the Fury, 77 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›College dormitory
Actions: Bodily›Going to bed | Mental›Thinking | Non-human›Animal senses | Perceptual›Seeing
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Objects›Bed | Objects›Slipper | Objects›Watch | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Being in time | Time›Being outside of time
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate | Friendship›Male-male relationship
The Sound and the Fury, 81 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Clock chiming
Actions: Bodily›Bathing and/or personal hygiene | Bodily›Feeling pain | Bodily›Shaving | Communication›Addressing for mail delivery | Communication›Letter | Communication›Writing | Domestic›Packing | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Dressing
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Suit | Health and Illness›Doctoring
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Keys | Objects›Paper | Objects›Trunk | Objects›Watch | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Awareness of time
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Macbeth | Allusion, Literary›Shakespeare, William | Narrative›Resumption of sentence after interruption
The Sound and the Fury, 81 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Domestic Space›Porch | Natural›Grass | Olfactory›Flowers
Actions: Emotional›Comforting | Emotional›Crying | Interaction, Social›Celebration | Movement›Running | Perceptual›Smelling
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Champagne | Alcohol›Drunkenness | Clothes›Undressing | Clothes›Veil | Clothes›Vest | Clothes›Wedding dress
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Objects›Flowers Roses | Objects›Mirror | Psychological›Obsession | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Hymn "Holy Matrimony" | Allusion, Literary›Keble, John | Figures of Speech›Armor | Figures of Speech›Cloud | Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intratextual | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Sound and the Fury, 82 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Suit
Themes and Motifs: Community›Wedding | Death›Wake | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Irony | Typography/Orthography›Dots
The Sound and the Fury, 82 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Sunlight | Auditory›Clock chiming
Actions: Movement›Walking
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Awareness of time
The Sound and the Fury, 9 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Drive | Domestic Space›Gate
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Emotional›Fear | Emotional›Worry | Movement›Carriage | Verbal›Complaining
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Mourning | Health and Illness›Rheumatism | Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Objects›Flowers | Objects›Horsewhip | Objects›Surrey | Objects›Wheel | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Abrupt shift in time | Time›Travel back in time
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Interracial›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Ambiguity›Unspecified shapes | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Narrative›Unreliable narrator
The Sound and the Fury, 90 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Twinkling | Natural›Body of water | Natural›Cavern / Grotto | Natural›River | Natural›Sea / Ocean | Public›Bridge | Public›Drawbridge | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Bodily›Breathing | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Seeing | Play›Sports Crew / rowing
Cultural Issues: Education›Being well read / erudite | Entertainment›Boat race
Themes and Motifs: Death›Death by water / Drowning | Death›Preparing for death | Death›Suicide | Memory›Remembering | Objects›Flat-iron | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Recurring Tropes›Thinking of home | Recurring Tropes›Tomorrow and tomorrow | Supernatural›Folklore | Supernatural›Ghost
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Archimedes | Allusion, Literary›Coleridge, Samuel | Allusion, Literary›Eliot, T. S. | Allusion, Literary›Latin pastoral poetry | Allusion, Literary›Macbeth | Allusion, Literary›Poem "Kubla Khan" | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Waste Land" | Diction›Racist term | Figures of Speech›Breath | Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Fragments | Language›Latin phrase | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration
The Sound and the Fury, 92 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Clock ticking | Natural›Body of water | Natural›River | Public›Bridge
Actions: Communication›Letter | Movement›Direction east | Movement›Walking | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Touching
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Coat
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Watch | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Being outside of time | Time›Return to present time | Time›Transcended
Aesthetics: Narrative›Foreshadowing
The Sound and the Fury, 95 (Event)
Environment: Natural›Ivy
Actions: Emotional›Sadness | Mental›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Shirt | Education›Being well read / erudite | Education›Harvard
Themes and Motifs: Death›Anticipation of death | Death›Death by water / Drowning | Death›Suicide | Objects›Bricks | Philosophical›Nihilism | Philosophical›Suffering | Recurring Tropes›Dead time | Recurring Tropes›Father said | Recurring Tropes›Little sister | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Harvard University | Diction›"Is" / "Was" to refer to present or past | Language›Fragments | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Style›Unfinished sentence
The Sound and the Fury, 96 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Clock chiming
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Searching
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Awareness of time | Time›Return to present time
The Sound and the Fury, 96 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Midday
Actions: Movement›Walking
Themes and Motifs: Body›Hand / Palm | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Return to present time
The Sound and the Fury, 96 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Clock ticking | Public›Sidewalk
Actions: Communication›Letter | Physical›Touching | Physical›Trampling
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Coat
Themes and Motifs: Body›Heels | Death›Bones | Objects›Watch | Recurring Tropes›Shadows | Time›Return to present time
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Eliot, T. S. | Allusion, Literary›Poem "The Waste Land" | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Symbolism›Shadows
The Town, 350 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dark
Actions: Mental›Contemplation | Perceptual›Watching
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Losing vs never having | Recurring Tropes›Shadows
Aesthetics: Diction›"Is" / "Was" to refer to present or past | Typography/Orthography›Italics