Themes and Motifs: Body Symbolism
Description
This term refers to the body itself being referred to symbolically, as when in AILD Peabody says death is "no more than a single family or tenant moving out of a tenement or a town" or the subadar in "Ad Astra" referring to the body as "a room in the inn . . . where we hide for a little while" (420). CR
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Appearance-plain
- Arm
- Blood
- Bowels
- Brain / mind
- Breast
- Buttocks
- Chins
- Excrement
- Eyelashes
- Eyes
- Face
- Fingers
- Flesh
- Foot / Feet
- Forehead
- Hair
- Hand / Palm
- Heels
- Hips
- Intestines
- Jaw
- Knee
- Legs
- Lips
- Male body
- Mental disability
- Moustache
- Mouth
- Naked
- Nose
- Physical disability
- Pregnancy
- Prosthetic
- Scar
- Sensory experience
- Shoulder
- Skin
- Stomach/belly
- Straightened hair
- Teeth
- Testicles
- Thighs
- Thinness
- Throat
- Voice
- Waist
- Weight
- Womb
Tagged Events
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›National | War›Defeat